25th National Technology Day celebrated in CSIR —North East Institute of Sciences ABD Technology

JORHAT: The 25th National Technology Day was celebrated at CSIR—North East Institute of Sciences ABD Technology in Jorhat on Thursday with a day-long programme. The chief guest, Padmavibhushan Dr Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (FRS) who is the Ex-Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, addressed the event.

The programme commenced with the felicitation of Dr Mashelkar followed by the inaugural address by the Director of CSIR-NEIST, Dr G. Narahari Sastry. Dr Mashelkar spoke on the topic “Making High Technology Work for the Poor”. He started with an old quote coined exactly 25 years ago during a CSIR Director’s conference held in Bangalore which says, “India matters to us; it is our endeavour that we shall matter to India more”. He said that it is an eternal message which reflects the great team spirit of CSIR and an essence of a productive work culture, with which we need to forge ahead in our scientific endeavours.

He further added, “We are celebrating India @ 75, but we should be thinking about Bharat @ 75, because of the fact that 70 per cent of India lives in her villages and 17 % of the urban population lives in the slums till date. Therefore, it is our moral obligation to think how we make things workable for the underprivileged strata of our nation.”

He spoke about his philosophy about “Gandhian Engineering” which is based on the tenet “more performance from less resource for more people” which he delivered for the first time during an invited talk by the Australian Academy in Canberra. Dr Mashelkar elaborated upon his idea on “Making Seemingly Impossible, Possible” which stems from the paradox he envisions.

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