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PRESS RELEASE NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DAY CELEBRATIONS AT NML - MAY 11, 2010
The National Technology Day was celebrated at
the National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR), Jamshedpur on May 11, 2010. Shri
Gautam Mukerjee, Managing Director, Fusion
Engineering Products Limited, Jamshedpur was the Chief Guest on this occasion
and delivered the Technology Day Lecture on "Relevance of India
in the World Today - The R&D Advantage".
Dr. S. Srikanth, Director, NML welcomed all the
Guests and Members of Staff of NML and highlighted the significance of the
"National Technology Day". This day marks the day when India
successfully conducted the Pokhran nuclear tests in
May 1998 as well as many other landmark technology developments later. He has
also touched upon major technological break through
developments that India has achieved in the post independence era and
especially over the last 25 years. This includes such phenomenal societal
contributions made by entrepreneurs such as Shri Varaprasad
Reddy of M/s Shantha Biotech by developing low cost
Hepatitis - B vaccine that has made life so much safe for poor people of our
country.
In his address Shri Mukerjee
discussed the process of a global shift of research and development to India.
He referred to the work of great Management Guru Prof. Michael Porter on what
makes a nation great in a specific activity. Referring to Pandit
Nehru 's vision of science & technology in modern India , he stressed that
India's success relates to the great minds of it's
scientist and technologists , a stable democracy, cost advantage and a unique
value system that has pushed many of the world renowned organizations to base
their R&D activities in India . In such a scenario, India should take full
advantage of it's position
to come up as a developed nation.
Earlier Dr. Sukomal Ghosh, Adviser (Management)
spoke about technology development work being carried out at NML and Dr.
Amitava Mitra, Deputy Director introduced the Chief Guest. Shri Bal Krishna, Administrative Officer, NML proposed a
"Vote-of-thanks".
The programme ended with two video lectures by
Dr. Hans Rosling and Mr. Pranav
Mistry on "Technology and innovation".
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