Expressbuzz, April 17, 2011
BHUBANESWAR: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has decided to establish an outreach centre at Koraput to ensure that people from the backward regions of the State have access to new and simple technologies which are of day-today use.
The centre will be operational from the current financial year. CSIR would enter into an agreement with the Central University, Orissa, to make the centre functional. The project is a part of CSIR800 programme.
DirectorGeneral, CSIR, and Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Samir Brahmachari has accorded his consent for the centre, Director of Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT) BK Mishra said today. Brahmachari was in the State on a twoday visit.
As part of the arrangement, IMMT would act as the nodal agency in technology dissemination programme, while the varsity's mandate would be to impart training to prospective entrepreneurs or beneficiaries, the endusers.
IMMT would coordinate with the sister laboratories in the country to create a technology pool which would be useful for the backward regions of the State. Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow, and North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, would collaborate for the outreach centre at Koraput. Technologies relating to water treatment, fuel conservation and postharvest activities in which IMMT has expertise will be extended through the outreach centre.
A budgetary requirement of ` 50 crore has already been placed. The initial operation will start with a team of temporary employees and the Collector has promised a temporary shed. The permanent campus would be much bigger in scale.
Meanwhile, IMMT has also urged the CSIR DG to allot a Technology Centre at Bhubaneswar. The CSIR, which is focussing on Micro Small and Medium Enterprises in the 12th FiveYear Plan, is planning such centres to help entrepreneurs access technologies.
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