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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Wednesday paid tributes to V.K. Damodaran, a founding subordinate of the Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP), who passed distant recently. He called the precocious idiosyncratic a visionary who shaped Kerala’s people’s subject movement.
He was speaking portion inaugurating a condolence gathering held present successful the representation of Damodaran, who was besides an author, subject communicator, and biology activist.
Recalling his agelong relation with Damodaran, the Chief Minister credited him for playing a captious relation successful shaping the State’s technological and technological advancement. He added that during his little tenure arsenic the Electricity Minister successful 1996, helium had the accidental to enactment intimately with Damodaran, whom helium referred to has ‘VDK,’ successful the vigor sector.
Deep admiration
During the period, helium had witnessed the respect Damodaran enjoyed among scientists from crossed the world. During planetary conferences they attended together, helium observed however overseas experts approached Damodaran with heavy admiration and recognised his contributions to subject and technology.
The Chief Minister besides recounted Kerala’s aboriginal collaboration with China successful small-scale powerfulness projects, an inaugural successful which Damodaran played a important role. He, however, admitted that the quality successful moving styles betwixt the 2 countries constricted the scope of these collaborations.
“Chinese engineers were accustomed to completing projects earlier the deadline, portion Kerala’s processes were considerably slower. As a result, immoderate of the machinery imported for these projects aboriginal became unusable. Even aft my tenure (as Minister), VKD continued to pass maine astir the challenges involved. Unfortunately, large advancement could not beryllium attained,” helium lamented.
Scientific awareness
Mr. Vijayan besides praised Damodaran’s heavy committedness to promoting technological consciousness successful society. From his aboriginal relation arsenic the KSSP’s founding person and exertion of its subject magazines specified arsenic Sasthragathi and Sasthra Keralam, and aboriginal arsenic a guiding unit down galore publications, Damodaran shaped the technological literacy of generations.
Communist Party of India (CPI) State caput Binoy Viswam, erstwhile Chief Secretary S.M. Vijayanand, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment enforcement vice-president K.P. Sudheer and KSSP president T.K. Meerabai were among those who attended.
