{"id":148104,"date":"2021-11-22T20:54:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=148104"},"modified":"2021-11-22T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:24:20","slug":"union-minister-inaugurates-centres-for-nano-technology-and-indian-knowledge-system-at-iit-guwahati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-inaugurates-centres-for-nano-technology-and-indian-knowledge-system-at-iit-guwahati\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister inaugurates centres for nano technology and Indian Knowledge System at IIT Guwahati"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister of Education has visited IIT Guwahati and inaugurated the state-of-the-art Centre for Nanotechnology (CNT) and Centre for Indian Knowledge System (CIKS) at the institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the purpose of the Centre for NanoTechnology (CNT)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To meet future challenges and augment academic partnerships with industry in Nanotechnology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Funding:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The major funding for the Centre was obtained from the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><em>Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-describe-the-salient-features-of-indian-governments-mission-on-nanoscience-and-technology-and-the-scope-of-its-application-in-the-development-process-of-the-country\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click Here to read more about Nanotechnology<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the purpose of the Centre for Indian Knowledge System (CIKS)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Focus: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CIKS will focus on preserving, documenting and sustaining the knowledge that is unique to India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The top priorities include <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian classical music, Yoga, Sanskrit, traditional medicines, temple architecture and agricultural practices of North-East India, herbal plants of north-east as health food and metal work of Assam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Union Minister inaugurates centres for nano technology and Indian Knowledge System at IIT Guwahati<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published by <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on<b> 21st Nov 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Union Minister of Education has visited IIT Guwahati and inaugurated the state-of-the-art Centre for Nanotechnology (CNT) and Centre for Indian Knowledge System (CIKS) at the institute. What is the purpose of the Centre for NanoTechnology (CNT)? Aim: To meet future challenges and augment academic partnerships with industry in Nanotechnology.\u00a0 Funding:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-inaugurates-centres-for-nano-technology-and-indian-knowledge-system-at-iit-guwahati\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister inaugurates centres for nano technology and Indian Knowledge System at IIT Guwahati<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704930877},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}