Rs 2400 cr tech to modernise the leather ind
Deepak Kumar Underscoring the need to strengthen India’s leather industry, which has not been able to achieve its potential growth over the past few years, the government on Thursday announced a Rs. 2400 crore technology mission programme to modernise the leather industry and enable a multifarious growth to the sector.Addressing the press conference on Thursday, Science and Technology Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said,"Efforts are being further leveraged which would provide a new impetus to the leather industry to manufacture and launch value-added products. The focus is on MSME in particular which feeds the larger industry segment."The leather sector generates $12.5 billion revenue, which is significantly lower than the sector’s potential. The Narendra Modi -led government envisages to achieve $27 billion from ...
Vardhan inaugurates world-class CGMP facility in Jammu
The Dollar Business Bureau A newly built, state-of-the-art Plant for extraction, formulation, packaging of medicinal plant based phyto-pharmaceutical drugs under internationally accepted GMP guidelines was inaugurated by the Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Harsh Vardhan and Minister of State for DoNER (Independent Charge), Jitendra Singh, at CSIR-IIIM, in Jammu on 20th October, 2016. The facility is the first Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) in India, set up in the public sector. The Drug & Food Control Organisation, Jammu & Kashmir has issued a manufacturing license to the facility, the news release said. This facility will help all the CSIR institutes involved in the discovery and development of drugs to convert their natural product leads to pre-clinical and clinical development for approvals for marketing. In ...
India, US to add advance manufacturing in S&T dialogue
The Dollar Business Bureau In a step to further the ambitious scheme of ‘Make in India’, India and the US have decided to include ‘advance manufacturing’ in their Dialogue on Science and Technology. Both the countries have also agreed to add ocean wave modeling and agriculture science, in the field of science and technology (S&T). In this regard, a decision was taken during the S&T Joint Commission meeting, between India and the US, which was held at the White House. Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Science and Technology Minister co-chaired the meeting with John Holdren, Assistant to the President for S&T. The two sides also reviewed the progress between the two countries under five Joint Working Groups for S&T cooperation and have decided that ...
India to double investment in clean energy
The Dollar Business Bureau Underlining India’s commitment towards research-led innovations to strengthen its clean energy sector, the Science & Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said the government is planning to double its investment in India’s clean energy research to $145 million in the near future. India’s current investment in clean energy research is about $72 million. The minister was speaking at the 7th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM7) and the Mission Innovation Meet at San Francisco, USA on June 1st and 2nd. The member countries also announced their respective plans to more than double their expenditure in clean energy research in the next five years. Making the Mission Innovation Announcement, Vardhan said the member countries have a shared desire to increase their pace of innovation through clean ...
