Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is a leading R&D organisation of the country with 38 premium institutes spread across the country. CSIR is organising Capsule Exhibition across the country as a part of the CSIR Platinum Jubilee Celebrations to make the masses acquainted with the contributions of CSIR in various fields. The venue for the three-day exposition, started on August 22, is CSIR — Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal.
A large number of Students, Dignitaries and entrepreneurs witnessed the display on the achievements of CSIR at one place. The early warning system for landslides is important today when we are regularly facing the natural calamity in the hilly areas.
The system is developed by CSIR - Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, and is successfully implemented in North - Western Himalayas. CBRI Roorkee has also done important work in the area of substitution of wood by industrial wastes. This, on one side, reduces the cutting of trees and on the other curbs the pollution caused by the hazardous industrial wastes.
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur has developed Swaraj, Sonalika and Krishishakti, which are very popular tractors of India.
Similar to the above Amul Milk developed by Central Food Technology Research Institute, Mysore using Buffalo milk if extremely popular.
The exhibition contains the exhibits on the achievements of CSIR in the areas of CSIR - 800(Social Intervention), Nurturing Human Resources, Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship, Chemical and Petrochemical, Water, Ecology and Environment, leather, Materials and Minerals, Energy, Healthcare, Aerospace, Engineering and Infrastructure, Agriculture and Floriculture, and Food and Nutrition. The exhibition will conclude on Thursday.