CSIR-NPL organized a half-day outreach program on 14th December 2023 for the IISF-2023 which is to be organized from 17 to 20 January 2024 at RCB-THSTI Campus, Faridabad, Haryana. The Inaugural program started in the CSIR-NPL auditorium with the lighting of the lamp and Saraswati Vandana. Prof Venugopal Achanta, Director, CSIR-NPL welcomed the guests and emphasized the importance of IISF and the outreach program for sensitizing the masses and promoting the scientific temperament.
The Chief Guest of the program, Prof. M. M. Tripathy (DG, NIELIT) addressed the gathering and shared his memories with IISF 2016 which was organised earlier in the CSIR-NPL campus. He emphasized that youth should actively participate in such programs because they are the future leaders and will play a major role in the economic development of the country. Dr Tripathi also highlighted the importance of ethics in Artificial Intelligence, digital public infrastructure, cyber security, quantum computing, molecular communication etc. for society and associated challenges.
The programme further followed up with a detailed presentation by Prof. Puneet Misra, President, of Indraprastha Vigyan Bharati on the spectra of events planned at IISF 2023. Dr Misra highlighted about 16 events that are planned to be part of this four-day event like the Student Science Village, Young Scientist’s Conference, Women Scientist and Entrepreneur Conclave etc. He conveyed to the audience the role and objective of IISF which involves the translation of science in the form of tradition, culture and festival so that it can be disseminated to a maximum number of people especially the youth of our country to nurture and develop scientific temperament in future generations.
Another speaker, Dr Sushil Kumar, Chief Scientist, CSIR-NPL gave an overview of CSIR-NPL, its mandate, past and present activities being performed at CSIR-NPL in fields of Metrology, Research, Skill development and further assisting industries in various areas. The program concluded with a vote of thanks by Dr Sumit K. Mishra, Coordinator, of the IISF Outreach Program at CSIR-NPL followed by the National anthem.
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