Students told to leverage technology, contribute to country’s scientific self-reliance

Professor of Chemistry from IIT-Madras G. Ranga Rao connected Saturday spoke astir the captious relation of h2o and vigor and urged students and researchers to leverage advancing technologies for improvement of sustainable materials, and to lend to India’s technological self-reliance and planetary competitiveness done innovations. 

He was addressing the inaugural league of a three-day planetary league connected Sustainable Materials for Water and Energy Solutions (SuWatE+ 2026), organised by the Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences (SAS) astatine VIT-AP University.

M. G. Sethuraman from Gandhigram Rural Institute said the absorption of the league was connected advancing technological cognition and translating probe into concern applications, too encouraging young scholars to research alternate vigor solutions and integrate method expertise with ethical and problem-solving approaches for sustainable development.

Vice-Chancellor Arulmozhivarman and Registrar Jagadish Mudiganti said the league deliberations volition beforehand sustainability and energy-efficient field initiatives with nationalist and planetary impacts, and extended their champion wishes for its success.

Dean of Academic Research M. Venkata Rajanikanth, Head of the Department of Chemistry Ramaknath Illa and others were present.