MT News Service
Srinagar, July 11:
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha desired that the CSIR shared its information with the J&K UT government to have further brainstorming to explore possibilities of their implementation.
Lt Guv was speaking while conducting a meeting with Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, GoI, Dr. Shekhar C Mande at Raj Bhavan here.
During their meeting, Lt Guv desired, “the information with regards to all the readily available technologies of CSIR may be shared with the J&K UT Government.”
Dr. Mande who is also the Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research discussed with the Lt Governor a variety of Scientific and technological solutions those can be brought to UT of J&K so that people can be benefitted from the technology-led solutions.
Discussions were also took place on several wide-ranging issues pertaining to conservation of environment and water bodies, employment generation, and productive utilization of human resources of the region.
He apprised the Lt Governor about CSIR Aroma Mission aimed at development of superior aroma crop varieties, their agro-technologies, and assessment of their suitability for the large scale cultivation in specific agro-climatic regions which would have great impact on the rural economy.
The Lt Governor while appreciating the proposals put forth by Dr. Mande, asked him to emphasize on scientific and industrial training of the talented youths of J&K.
The Secretary DSIR was accompanied by Director CSIR-IIIM, Jammu, Dr. Srinivasa Reddy.
