{"id":200355,"date":"2022-08-17T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200355"},"modified":"2022-08-17T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:01:51","slug":"achievements-of-csir-high-points-in-science-technology-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/achievements-of-csir-high-points-in-science-technology-and-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievements of CSIR: High points in science, technology and innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cHigh points in science, technology and innovation\u201d <\/strong>published in The Hindu <\/b>on\u00a017th<\/sup>\u00a0August 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the achievements of CSIR.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has undertaken its mission effectively since Independence.<\/p>\n

What is the responsibility of CSIR in 1947?<\/h5>\n

CSIR had been founded in 1942. In 1947, India has a GDP of a mere \u20b92.7 lakh crore and food grain production of a meagre of 50 million tonnes.<\/p>\n

The challenges of educating the people, feeding the population, implementing democracy, promoting industry and trade, and ensuring the country\u2019s security. In this situation, the CSIR took the responsibility of<\/p>\n

a)<\/strong> Developing the science, technology and innovation ecosystem, b)<\/strong> Establishing a number of national laboratories under its umbrella, and c)<\/strong> Promoting similar organisations independently.<\/p>\n

What are a few major achievements of CSIR?<\/h5>\n

1)<\/strong> The CSIR started five of its own laboratories with support from the government and industry and raised resources through crowdsourcing, 2)<\/strong> In collaboration with the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, the Government (through the CSIR) started the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research<\/strong>, 3)<\/strong> The development of national calender<\/strong>: CSIR setup a committee under the Chairmanship of Meghnad Saha. Based on the committee’s science and technology-based solutions a national calendar has been adopted, 4)<\/strong> The CSIR\u2019s National Physical Laboratory developed the indelible ink made up of silver nitrate<\/strong> to address various challenges in voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Year-End Review-2021- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Achievements of CSIR in leather industry<\/h5>\n

a)<\/strong> CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) was established in 1948, it developed technologies for finished leather products, such as the first-ever indigenous manufacture of leather chemicals, making the transition from semifinished to finished leather possible, b)<\/strong> CSIR-CLRI routinely trained the next generation manpower for the leather industry. As a result, more than 40% of personnel employed in the leather industry have been trained directly or indirectly in the CSIR-CLRI.<\/p>\n

The leather industry employed less than 25,000 people at the time of Independence. Due to successful intervention by CSIR, the leather industry now has a workforce of more than 4.5 million, a large percentage of them being women. Further, Indian exports in this sector are close to $6 billion.<\/p>\n

What are the achievements of CSIR in other technologies?<\/h5>\n

During the Green Revolution<\/strong>: The CSIR helped in the development of agrochemicals and the mechanisation of agriculture. Two public sector companies were founded, post-Independence, based on technologies developed in the CSIR\u2019s laboratories.<\/p>\n

Indigenous development of the Swaraj tractor at the CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), led to the formation of Punjab Tractors Ltd. in 1970.<\/p>\n

Development of generic pharmaceutical industry<\/strong>: The production of anti-HIV drugs by processes developed in CSIR laboratories provided the necessary impetus to the growth of generic pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n

Dairy sector<\/strong>: In the 1950s, when solving the infant food problem, the CSIR successfully developed technologies to convert buffalo milk into powder and commercialised it with the help of Amul Industries.<\/p>\n

Other missions<\/strong>: The Aroma Mission of the CSIR in recent times has been transforming the lives of thousands of farmers across the country.<\/p>\n

In upcoming years, CSIR will help in reducing dependence on natural resources, making all industrial processes circular, making technologies environmentally friendly and providing sufficient opportunities to all for living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cHigh points in science, technology and innovation\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a017th\u00a0August 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology. Relevance: About the achievements of CSIR. News: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has undertaken its… Continue reading Achievements of CSIR: High points in science, technology and innovation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-200355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":8,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699626992},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200355","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}