<span style="color: #222222;">Power Finance Corporation, PFC, a PSU under Ministry of Power has signed an agreement with Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur for Training, Research, and Entrepreneurship Development in Smart Grid Technology.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Under the agreement, PFC will provide financial assistance of worthw two crore thirty eight lakhs and ninety seven thousand rupees to IIT-Kanpur.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Shri. R. Murahari, Executive Director, CSR and SD, PFC informed that the objective of the pact is to provide support to IIT-Kanpur in developing infrastructure for research and development on smart grid technology.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">As part of project, IIT-K will also provide training on smart grid technology to 90 participants and provide fellowship to 9 selected candidates. The fellows will be assisted by Start-up Innovation and Incubation Centre of IIT-Kanpur and encouraged to take up entrepreneurial activities.  The agreement was on a virtual platform.</span><br />''  <br />