NEW DELHI: As the country's national R&D body — Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) — will enter 75th year of its foundation next week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on September 26 kick off its platinum jubilee celebration with an aim to push the institution to work more vigorously for bringing the result of its research, new technology and discoveries from lab to
people and industries. Modi is expected to use the occasion to exhort the scientific community to work on the goal to identify 100 odd everyday problems of the country and bring out solutions so that the people can directly get benefited from those research.
The Prime Minister will also launch a mega plan to promote India's traditional and Ayurvedic knowledge in a big way to bring scientific solutions to many health-related and other day-to-day problems.
The upcoming event is being considered as a catalyst to give a boost to the CSIR's ongoing works which had in the past over seven decades come out with a number of inventions but could not translate most of it into real problem solver solutions.
Asked by TOI whether the CSIR has a system in place where it can tell people and industries about its inventions or discoveries and sell those ideas as problem solvers, the CSIR director general Girish Sahni said, "We have a system in place but it is not in the form it ought to be. This is the area where we have been working quite sincerely for the past few months".
Sahni said, "The situation will, however, change. We are very sensitive to our mandate. We have experience and we are filling the gaps. I am very optimistic. In the next few years, we will produce a bonanza of useful technology".
Though the different labs of the CSIR have their individual websites where they put out their inventions, discoveries and patents in public domain, the idea is now to bring it out in open in an organised and business-like manner. The institution will soon come out with a viewer friendly online portal where such activities can take place more comprehensively. The year-long platinum jubilee celebration will culminate after completing 75 year of the CSIR in September, 2017. In the meantime, the institution's various labs will organise many people-friendly events with an idea to promote science among youth and bring their works in public domain through industry-academia interactive sessions.
The CSIR's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) will organise India International Science Festival (IISF-2016) here from December 7 to 11 as an integral part of India's long term vision in developing and widening the spectrum of scientific temper in the country and abroad. Established in 1942, the CSIR is an autonomous society which is presided over by the Prime Minister. An ensemble of 38 state-of-the-art national labs across the country, it is amongst the foremost scientific and industrial research organizations in the world.
According to the latest Scimago Institutions ranking, the CSIR is the only government organization to have figured among the top 100 global institutions. It is, in fact, ranked 12th in the world among the government institutions.
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