Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 9: The 82nd foundation day of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), was celebrated today at CSIR- Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu.
Padam Shri Professor Vinod K Singh, Rahul and Namita Gautam, Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur, a distinguished luminary of Indian Science was the chief guest on the occasion and delivered CSIR Foundation lecture, “Towards Excellence in Science & Technology”. He lucidly dealt with the various opportunities, challenges and the way forward to achieve the quality and excellence in the science and technology. Prof Singh underscored the importance of good governance and the role of management, heads of institutions, young professionals.
On this occasion, chief guest also presented the mementos and “Samman Patra” to ex-employees who superannuated during last one year and who completed 25 years of service in CSIR.
Earlier, Dr Zabeer Ahmed, Director of CSIR- IIIM, presented welcome address and introduced Prof Vinod K Singh to the audience as Scientist of international repute who is one among the Indian Science Policy makers. Giving the detail of day long programme conducted as part of CSIR Foundation Day, celebrations, Director, CSIR-IIIM informed that an exhibition cum poster presentation session for scholars and startup was organized besides competition of Artificial Intelligence Model Preparation under Jigyasa by various school children were held.
The event also marked as an open day to all the school and college students. More than 500 students from various schools visited the institute. Further around 350 students from colleges associated with Cluster University Jammu, Jammu University, and SMVD University, Katra visited the exhibitions and different labs of the institute. The students also interacted with scientists and got to know about of research methodologies.
Among others, Dr G D Singh, Ex-Chief Scientist; Asha Chaubey, Dhiraj Vyas, Sumit Gandhi, Qazi Naved Ahmed (all HoDs), Vikram Singh, Sr COA, Shashank Singh, Sr Principal Scientist, Saurabh Saran, Convenor, CSIR Foundation Day Org. Committee and Dilip Kumar Gehlot, SPO were present. Dr Deepika Singh conducted the proceedings while as Er Abdul Rahim presented the vote of thanks.
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