Dr. Jitendra Singh to be Chief Guest at Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Foundation Day Celebration

Dr. Jitendra Singh will be Chief guest at the Foundation Day Celebration of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to be held at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi on 5^th January, 2024. Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Member (S&T), NITI Aayog and Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, PSA to the Government of India will be guests of honour at the celebration.

With a mandate to promote indigenous industrial research, focusing on technology development, utilization and transfer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) was established under the Ministry of Science and Technology vide Presidential Notification on January 4, 1985. The primary goal is to stimulate research and development (R&D) within industries, assisting them in creating globally competitive, commercially viable technologies.

DSIR endeavors to expedite the commercialization of laboratory-scale R&D, strengthen technology transfer capabilities, increase the contribution of technology-intensive exports to overall exports, bolster industrial consultancy, and establish a user-friendly information network to facilitate scientific and industrial research nationwide.