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Jalandhar, January 17
A space technology incubation centre was today launched at Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, for students, alumni, faculty and community from the northern region to work on projects identified by ISRO.
Dr K Sivan, ISRO Chairman and Secretary, Department of Space from ISRO Headquarters, Bengaluru, launched the project through videoconference.
After signing an MoU with NIT Director Prof LK Awasthi here today, Dr PV Venkitakrishnan, Director, Capacity Building Programme Office, ISRO, said, “Anyone from the northern region who has a project that relates to 150 problem areas that we have listed in our respond basket on ISRO portal, can contact us or the NIT faculty and present the project detail. After getting the project approved, the researcher will be able to get all infrastructural facilities and funds from us and work on it. He just needs to bring in his brain, the rest we will provide”.
Listing out some priority areas, the ISRO Director said, “We want some way out to dispose of unspent propellants used in flights. As of date, we are using the seas, but we cannot go on like that as the number of space missions is also increasing”.
Dr Jiwan Kumar Pandit, Associate Director, Outreach, ISRO, said, “While we were carrying out R&D internally only, recently we have started involving students, faculty and community too. We want more indigenously developed products which will be cheaper to use while also helping us save our foreign reserves. So we have started extending the facility to IITs and NITs. While in IITs, only students and faculty can use the set up, in NITs it is open for community. Anyone from Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, HP, J&K and Delhi can come and work here. This one is second after NIT, Agartala”.
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