Dr. Harsh Vardhan Urges Scientists to Develop Renewable and Green Materials and Innovative Technologies for Building Industry
Union Minister for Science and
Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan urged scientists to develop
renewable and green materials and innovative technologies for Building Industry.
“CBRI has a responsibility to contribute
for implementing PM’s vision of affordable housing for all by 2022, to make technological
contributions for smart villages and smart cities, to celebrate 75th
year of India’s independence”, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, said.
Addressing scientists & staff of the
CSIR-Central Building Research Institute(CSIR-CBRI) yesterday, Dr. Harsh
Vardhan said that CSIR-CBRI works in an important area i.e. housing, a basic
necessity for any human being in addition to food and clothing. Our country is
poised to narrow down the gap with developed world in terms of economy, technology,
& human resource. In doing so, we need world class innovative,
efficient& green technologies on one hand and we need to meet the demand of
millions of pucca, comfortable and energy efficient houses where occupants may
live with safety, dignity and pride on the other hand. For the first time our Government
has set a deadline for providing every family a roof above its head, not only a
roof but water supply, sanitation & 24x7 electricity and we have a plan to
construct 20m houses in next 7 years, i.e. 7800 houses per day”.
“I am sure that CBRI will help us
realize the great dream”, he said. CSIR-CBRI’s contributions for building the
brick industry in the Country and creating technology for constructing
foundations of various types of buildings are widely recognized and known.
“I see that all the major initiatives of
the Government of India like Swachch Bharat, Swasth Bharat, Sashakt Bharat,
Smart Villages, Smart Cities, Make in India are having something or the other
ingrained in terms of technological input, which could be available from CSIR.
It is my belief that some new technologies may also be generated at CBRI if the
Institute take an oath to make the Housing mission a grand success. GOI may
depend upon the capabilities and vast experience of CSIR-CBRI and get the
things done”, the minister said.
During his address, he interacted with the
staff members and listened to them as they shared the varied challenges they
face in fulfilling the national tasks assigned to them. He emphasized that they
should not be satisfied with past laurels & achievements but constantly try
to think out-of-the-box solutions for various problems faced by the society and
consider them to be world citizens at par with other developed societies.
The Minister, who was accompanied by Dr.
M.O. Garg, Director-General, CSIR, and Dr. Girish Sahni, Director, CSIR-CBRI,
visited various laboratories like Heavy Testing Lab, Rural Park, Fire Research
lab and Polymer Plastic &Composite lab. On this occasion he inaugurated
the “Technology Gallery” where all the ongoing research activities are
displayed in pictorial form.
Some representatives from the industry who
have taken licenses for technologies emerging out of institutional research
work were also present on the occasion and shared their success stories with
CBRI technologies. While thanking the industry representatives for supporting
CSIR-CBRI, he called for forging greater partnership to accept the challenges.
“Prime Minister has given a call for “Make in India” and we need to generate
millions of jobs within a couple of years so that great potential of youth
power is suitably utilized. Seamless partnership will help in developing the
products and technologies for the benefit of the common man”, he pointed out. “At
the same time, the entrepreneurs should focus on using renewable and green
materials of Indian origin, including materials based on nano-technology which
have reasonably low carbon foot print as well are low cost”, the minister
advised to the industry.
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