Create roadmap to reduce dependence on imports of minerals and materials to “near zero,” ISRO Chairman tells CSIR community

V. Narayanan, Chairman, Indian House Analysis Organisation (ISRO), has urged the laboratories underneath the Council of Scientific and Industrial Analysis (CSIR) to draw up a roadmap to reduce the dependence on imports of minerals and materials to “close to zero” in 10 years.

The ISRO Chairman was addressing a conclave on ‘New vistas in essential minerals and materials’ organised by the CSIR-Nationwide Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Know-how (CSIR-NIIST) right here on Friday as half of its golden jubilee conclave sequence.

‘Self-reliance essential’

Mr. Narayanan wished the CSIR community to make a listing of the overall imports on this sector and search methods to produce them right here. The event of materials, whether or not it’s metallic, composite, carbon-carbon or thermo-protection materials, play a vital function in a number of sectors, he mentioned. Underscoring the significance of self-reliance in essential minerals and materials, Mr. Narayanan mentioned materials scientists have a essential function to play on this endeavour.

The Indian area programme, he mentioned, has progressed remarkably from the “bicycle and bullock-cart period.” He described the profitable launch of the NASA ISRO Artificial Aperture Radar Mission (NISAR) on July 30 as a milestone. Whereas the nation started its area mission with launch rockets gifted by the USA, at this time, it’s progressing with equal partnership alongside developed nations, he mentioned.

CSIR-NIIST director C. Anandharamakrishnan presided. Ramanuj Narayan, director, CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Know-how (IMMT); Sandeep Ghosh Chaudhary, director, CSIR – Nationwide Metallurgical Laboratory (NML); U. Kamachi Mudali, Vice Chancellor, Homi Bhabha Nationwide Institute (HBNI); and Anupam Agnihotri, director, Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Analysis Improvement and Design Centre, have been amongst these current.