About the Centre

National Institute of Technology Calicut is partnering with NITIE Mumbai in the initiatives to support the PM Gati Shakti Scheme. As an ambitious initiative, NIT Calicut has launched a Centre of Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (CoELSCM) to contribute to the realization of the objectives of the PM Gati Shakti scheme. This Centre of Excellence is a multidisciplinary centre that works across various research groups such as Industrial Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technology, Construction Management and Cyber Security. Faculty members and their research team will be a part of this Centre. This team will focus on new and emerging technologies with multidisciplinary and translational research relevant to achieving PM Gati Shakti's objectives of improving the supply chain's operational efficiency and minimizing logistics costs. The Centre will initiate steps in disseminating advanced knowledge and promote Digitisation, Analytics, IoT applications, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications among the practicing professionals in the organizations involved in the logistics sector and will share the best practices.