Adopt ‘one-person, one-lab’ mantra, PM Modi exhorts CSIR society members

• Chairing a meeting of the CSIR society, the Prime Minister exhorted its members to adopt a “one person one lab approach”.

Mandate

• To mandate the adopter to make at least 2-3 visits a year to an assigned CSIR lab and convey the society’s scientific expectations to lab staff.

CSIR society

• Prime Minister - president
• A consortium of 37 laboratories and 39 outreach centres.
• A meeting is held annually
• A virtual summit of all labs to be regularly

Recent achievements of CSIR

• First hydrogen fuel cell, ushering in purple revolution in Jammu and Kashmir
• Opening of the Traditional Knowledge Database Library (TKDL).

Prelims takeaway

• CSIR