Governor C P Radhakrishnan on Monday inaugurated the curtain raiser ceremony of the ‘One Week One Lab,’ a campaign of National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur at Ranchi. He said that over the next five days, CSIR-NML, a premier research organisation dedicated to various facets of Minerals, Metals and Materials would showcase its technological achievements for the socio-economic development of India in general and Jharkhand in particular.
On the occasion, N. Kaslaiselvi, Secretary DSIR, Government of India and Director General, CSIR and Dr. Avanish Kumar Srivastava, Director, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur were present.
In his address, Radhakrishnan said that it is a matter of great pride that CSIR, established in the year 1942, is one of the world’s largest publicly funded Research & Development organizations; nowadays its role is very important in ‘Atmnirbhar Bharat’.
“There is a centre of CSIR-NML also at Chennai, which is taking pivotal strides in commercial mineral enrichment endeavours. From materials necessary for our strategic sectors such as defence and space to materials needed for medical purposes, NML has traversed the path successfully. I have noted with immense pleasure that NML has worked on Arsenic removal technology. Part of Jharkhand water is rich in Arsenic which causes serious health issues to the people consuming it. I would like to see its large-scale implementation. I am also happy to know that NML has developed a technology for reclamation of coal mine water, free of harmful microorganisms making it fit for the purpose of human consumption,†noted Radhakrishnan.
He went on to add that the latest gadgets are also the e-waste of tomorrow. It is of utmost importance to know the right way of discarding an old device. Moreover, recycling and reuse of e-waste can also give a fillip to the economy. I am happy to learn that waste utilization is one of the major activities and many commercial technologies have been developed and implemented. CSIR-NML has already developed the technology for reclamation for precious and other metal recovery from e-waste and transferred it to entrepreneurs.
Recently India has found huge reserves of lithium. Lithium is the lifeline of our e-mobility vision. As NML is working on extraction of lithium from primary and secondary resources, I would like to see an indigenous technology for lithium extraction from lithium ore coming out from your institute.
On the 2nd of March this year The Research and Innovation Initiative Gathering (RIIG) conference on materials for Sustainable Energy was held under Indian’s G20 Presidency in Ranchi which was coordinated by CSIR. Many G20 nations including India have enormous minerals and materials wealth that is required to be sustainably used for meeting our energy requirements. I am sure that CSIR and particularly NML would rise to the occasion to provide technological solutions in the areas of sustainable energy storage, distribution and management.
