IIT Roorkee, C-MET Hyderabad launch MTech in e-waste management

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has launched a Master of Technology (MTech) in electronic waste (e-waste) management. This was part of a broader strategic partnership between IIT Roorkee and the Centre for Materials for Electronic Technology (C-MET) Hyderabad, an autonomous initiative under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

This partnership with C-MET Hyderabad will lead to student internships, doctoral research collaborations, exchange of academic resources, and shared access to research and development (R&D) infrastructure. The agreement aims to strengthen sustainable electronics, circular economy, and innovation-led manufacturing in India.

The IIT Roorkee and C-MET collaboration will also promote the exchange of faculty, researchers, and students between the two institutions, joint research efforts, the development of “state-of-the-art” process equipment for e-waste recycling, and joint hosting of workshops and conferences.

IIT Roorkee, C-MET partnership

The partnership and the new e-waste programme hope to be a step towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Viksit Bharat @2047’ vision to make India a fully developed nation, as per an official statement.

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The agreement was signed between R Ratheesh, director, C-MET Hyderabad and KK Pant, director, IIT Roorkee, at IIT Roorkee’s Greater Noida Extension Centre. The MoUs were further exchanged in the presence of S Krishnan, secretary, MeitY, at the Tec-Verse 2025 event, at New Delhi.

Other dignitaries present during the signing ceremony included S Rajesh Kumar, centre head, C-MET Thrissur; Vivek Kumar Malik, dean, sponsored research and industrial consultancy (SRIC); Prasenjit Mondal, head, department of chemical engineering; Nikhil Dhawan, department of metallurgical and materials engineering; and Komal Tripathi, department of chemical engineering.

“This partnership with C-MET opens a pathway to impactful research that addresses critical challenges in electronic waste management and sustainable materials,” Pant remarked.