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Capsule exhibition highlight of Platinum Jubilee celebrations of CSIR
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Saturday, 16 September, 2017, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Bengaluru
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The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Food Technological and Research Institute (CFTRI), which is located in Mysuru and under the auspices of the ministry of science and technology, will commemorate the former’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations with a capsule exhibition, which is slated to take place on its campus in Mysuru between September 18 and 20, 2017. It will commence at 10am and conclude at 5pm on all the three days.
The displays at the event, which will be inaugurated by Ram Rajasekharan, director, CSIR-CFTRI, are aimed at familiarising the students, researchers and the general public with its contributions to such fields as agriculture, food and nutrition. While entry to the event will be restricted to the students of schools and colleges on the first two days, it will be open to the public on the last day of the exhibition. They can enter and exit from CFTRI North Gate, which is opposite the Akashvani office.
The exhibition will comprise exhibits on CSIR’s achievements of in the areas of social intervention, nurturing human resources, intellectual property and entrepreneurship, chemicals and petrochemicals, water, ecology and the environment, leather, materials and minerals, energy, healthcare and generics, the aerospace and strategic sector, engineering and infrastructure, agriculture and floriculture and food and nutrition.
CSIR has a network of 38 labs with a pan-India presence. They are dedicated to fields as diverse as radio and space physics, oceanography, geophysics, chemicals, drugs, genomics, mining, instrumentation, environmental engineering, aeronautics and food technology. CSIR has been ranked the ninth best public research and development (R&D) organisation in the world out of 1,207 government institutions, according to Scimago Institutions Ranking World Report 2017.
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