MSME webinar on affordable water-purification technologies

GUWAHATI: A webinar on 'CSIR-CMERI Developed Water Purification Technologies' was organised by MSME-DI, Guwahati in association with CSIR-CMERI on Friday.

Prof. Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR- CMERI, was the 'Chief Speaker' for the virtual event. Prof. Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, informed that the thrust towards the 'Water Purification' initiatives of CSIR-CMERI started in 2016, and the Institute was awarded the CSIR Technology Award in 2017 for this purpose. After that, the CSIR-CMERI is continuously working upon 'Incremental Advancement of Water Technologies'.

Participating in the webinar, Debabrata Mitra, Joint Director & Head MSME DI Guwahati stated that "the Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation has been providing financial assistance to the State governments in providing the drinking and potable water. Presenting the statistical data related to Assam State he mentioned that only 43.8% of rural household in Assam has access to safe drinking water and the rest is still using untreated water which is miserable. Hence we should enrich ourselves with the CSIR-CMERI developed water purification technologies so that rural masses with the help of MSMEs are benefited in the North East region.''

Other notable speakers of the webinar included Sunil Kumar of MSME TC, Kolkata; Avik Sharma from Taurus; and Dr Arijit Banerjee besides a number of entrepreneurs from Micro and Small enterprises from the Assam region, stated a press release.

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