Prof BS Murty, Director of IIT Hyderabad on Monday said that his institution has forged an agreement with CSIR-CIMFR in order to collaborate on search and other uses of critical minerals in the country. A similar MoU has been signed with NTPC, he informed.
Addressing the 83rd Foundation Day celebration at CSIR-CIMFR here he said that future of country lies in critical minerals like Antimony, Beryllium, Cobalt, , Gallium, Germanium, Graphite, Lithium, , Niobium, Nickel, PGE, Phosphorous, Potash, REE, Rhenium, Silicon, and so on as we are dependent in import of these for uses in India. These are needed to ensure "Atamnirbhar and Vikshit Bharat "the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He said IIT Hyderabad has implemented three concepts including to create minds who are exceptional thinkers, support innovation and make collaborations to ensure reaching the goal of Vikshit Bharat. " Vikshit Bharat can be reality only when we see Made in India products on shelves all across the world market. We would have to work on Mission Mode to achieve reality just as we did in our missile, space and other missions. Product development must be our first priority,"said Prof Murty. He spoke in length the new courses the IIT Hyderabad has implemented in very short span of its existence as it was established just fifteen years ago.Some of the new courses include B. Tech in AI, IC designing, engineering sciences, computation engineering besides MTech in ophthalmic and medical physics and in entrepreneurship besides others to meet future demand of trained engineers in country to meet future need of industries.
The MoU papers were exchanged in presence of Director Prof AK Mishra, Ravindar Kumar Director Operations NTPC, Dr DD Mishra chairman Research Council of Cimfer besides Dr GN Sastry dean sponsored research and consultancy of IIT Hyderabad.
Earlier, addressing the gathering CIMFR director spoke about the eight decades of contribution of 37 labs of CSIR in general and CIMFR in particular.
He gave details of several important research that has contributed to the development of the country and society.
"The high wall Mining technology with paste fill technology has helped extraction of upto 80 percent of coal from pollors in UG mines. Similarly, controlled blasting technology, mines transport surveillance system, hybrid extraction of coking coal from tellings are some of the research in a long list of research of CIMFR scientists here, he said.
Our aim is making coking a source of green energy for the future as the use of carbon is not to end, added CIMFR director.
Later NTPC director operations and Dr DD Mishra too addressed the gathering.
