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Union Minister of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025) underscored the request for India to make a self-sustainable subject and exertion ecosystem with a larger information by the backstage sector.
Mr. Singh was speaking aft inaugurating the finale of the aureate jubilee celebrations of CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST) successful Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
He called for a “whole of authorities attack combined with the full of subject and full of federation approaches with the accrued information of backstage players.”
“As you person seen, we person opened up adjacent those sectors that were erstwhile considered taboo. We person opened up the abstraction sector, and this year, the Budget declared the opening up of the atomic sector,” Mr. Singh said.
Over the past fewer years, determination has been a surge successful interdisciplinary initiatives and interdisciplinary readying due to the fact that the “age of silos” is over, helium said.
NIIST’s quality and strength, the Union Minister observed, lies successful its interdisciplinary agenda.
Lauding the founders of NIIST for being futuristic successful their imaginativeness successful founding an institute with an interdisciplinary character, helium said NIIST has vindicated its purpose. Mr. Singh added that it is present clip for the institute to determination connected to the “next level.”
C. Anandharamakrishnan, director, CSIR-NIIST, said the institute is moving guardant with the imaginativeness of transforming itself into an ‘International Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology’ successful the future.
Vidyut Swasthya
Mr. Singh unveiled ‘Vidyut Swasthya,’ a pedal-assisted workout strategy that converts quality vigor into energy for charging gadgets connected the occasion.
NIIST besides unveiled a fig of initiatives, including the Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre; ‘ANANDHA’ – Automated Nodal-hub for Assembly of Next-generation Dye-sensitised Light Harvesters, which is an artificial quality and instrumentality learning laboratory; and an eco-restoration task for the Padmatheertham Pond successful Thiruvananthapuram.
On the occasion, NIIST besides transferred the exertion for aluminium-magnesium-scandium (Al-Mg-Sc) alloys developed by it and exchanged MoUs for sustainable wastewater absorption successful houseboats and astute tyres.
Krishna Ella, enforcement president of Bharat Biotech, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Vice Chancellor Dipankar Banerjee, BJP Kerala State president and erstwhile Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar and CSIR-NIIST main idiosyncratic P. Nishy besides spoke.
