Heads of different CSIR institutes, while adopting the ‘Dehradun declaration’ on the concluding day of the two-day CSIR director’s conference in Dehradun on Saturday took pledge to develop technologies for national missions like Swachh Bharat, Swasth Bharat, Skill India, Smart Cities, Digital India, Namami Ganga. It was also decided that CSIR
labs will devise ways to develop industry driven technologies, including game changing technologies.
Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister of State for Science, Technology and Earth Sciences YS Chowdary urged CSIR directors to come up with at least 12 cutting edge technologies which are to be commercialised every year. Addressing the conference Chowdary said, “Ten to 15 spin off start-up companies should emerge every year from industrialisation of CSIR research projects. There is a perception that our scientific research is not being guided by national priorities.”
Calling upon all CSIR labs to map their resources, Chowdary said, “All CSIR labs should list out their bottlenecks and anomalies to bring a positive change and come up with a vision document for a guided action now.”