Experts focus on balancing between energy supply and environment
City-based CSIR- National Metallurgical laboratory celebrated the National Technology Day at the NMl auditorium. Welcoming the gathering, Dr S Srikanth, Director CSIR-National Metallurgical laboratory, said "Unlike the strategic sector, the technologies in the civilian sector are today both global and market driven. We have changed course from the path of technologies for self reliance that dominated until 1990 to the path of competing for the global market".
He said that while science develops through individual brilliance of a disruptive mind, technology was developed by a team and partnership is the foundation of technology development. Further, scientific intervention may result from streak of instantaneous brilliance but building this into a technology can at times take decades of effort.
In the context of dominance of the developed countries, Dr. Srikanth said, "when India had no technology; technologies were offered at a price, when Indian technology appeared to be coming up; the price was lowered, when the Indian technology arrived; and when the Indian technology left nothing to be desired, the technology could be imported even for free! Therefore one has to overcome all of these if we have to aspire for the international market".
Chief Guest, Dr. Srikumar Banerjee, Homi Bhabha Chair Professor, BARC Mumbai and Chancellor, Central University of Kashmir, Srinagar, delivered the Technology Day lecture on "Energy, Environment and Sustainability".
Dr. Banerjee mentioned about the top 10 challenges that mankind has to face in the upcoming 50 years. These include Energy, Water, Food, Environment, Poverty, Terrorism & War, Disease, Education, Democracy, and Population.