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“AIT is an option for our central bank”

– Mr. Daw Tenzin, Governor of the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan (RMB)

Perched atop a small mound to the side of the roadway leading to the AIT globe monument area is a curious new fixture to the campus. Vaguely similar to a collection of traditional Japanese “tori”, a number of tree logs set in a circle on the grassy knoll form the new “2011 Flood Memorial Garden” – an understated and tranquil reminder of what was AIT’s worst ever natural calamity.

Staff, faculty, students, and workers on campus are all putting in overtime to prepare for the upcoming 118th AIT Graduation Ceremony – to be held at AIT’s main campus for the first time since the flood of 2011.

K-Water Academy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Asian Water Research and Education Centre (AWARE C) of AIT. The MoU was signed by Mr. Kee-Hyun Yang of K-water Academy and Prof. Mukand Singh Babel, Director of the AWARE C on 23 November 2012.

The validity of AIT degrees has been reaffirmed in a meeting convened by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Thailand on 12 December 2012. The meeting also decided that for the upcoming graduation, the AIT President and Deputy Permanent Secretary of MoFA will cosign the degrees. Further, till Thailand ratifies the new Charter, AIT will be governed by a Board of Trustees. Full details are available in an email from the AIT President, Prof. Said Irandoust, which is as follows:

Despite a low GDP and a high poverty ratio, the development paradox in Bangladesh continues to unfurl itself. Bangladesh has registered tremendous advances in the health sector, though its economic indicators continue to lag behind many countries. Explaining this paradox was Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury, Senior Adviser and Associate Director, The Rockefeller Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand, and Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA, at a seminar at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 6 December 2012.