Webinar on 'DRDO Technologies for Northeast India' organized in Tezpur

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TEZPUR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the concept of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat which will play a vital and important role in boosting the Indian economy as well as the global economy. The proposed theme for India International Science Festival 2020 is 'Science for self-reliant India and global welfare'. Under this theme, Defence Research Laboratory (DRL, DRDO), Tezpur, conducted a webinar on 'DRDO Technologies for North-East India' under the India International Science Festival 2020 (IIFS) recently.

The event was organized as a virtual conference with the coordination of the Directorate of Information Technology and Cyber security (DIT & CS). DrSanjai K Dwivedi, Director, DRL inaugurated the curtain raiser event for the benefit of students, researchers and faculties and delivered introductory briefings to all the participants.

The event was organized by Dr. PK Raul, Scientist (coordinator) and Dr. B Das (Deputy Coordinator) in association with other scientists, technical officers, staffs and research scholars of DRL (DRDO). During the events, several lectures on DRL developed technologies and products were delivered lucidly for easy comprehensiveness of versatile age/qualification of participants. Around 900 participants registered and were benefited by these lectures covering wide range of topics like nanotechnology for removal of water contaminants, wastewater management, bio-toilet, prevention of mosquitoes borne disease, wild edible fruits, animal handling and mushroom technology for socio economic uplift of remote and border areas of high altitude region of Northeast India.

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