CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), New Delhi, organised a half-day outreach programme on 14 December 2023 for the IISF-2023. During the inauguration of the programme, Prof. Venugopal Achanta, Director, CSIR-NPL, welcomed the guests and emphasised the importance of IISF and the outreach programme for sensitising the masses and promoting scientific temperament.
The Chief Guest of the programme, Prof. MM Tripathy, Director General, National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT), shared his memories with IISF 2016, which was organised in the CSIR-NPL campus. He emphasised that youth should actively participate in such programmes because they are the future leaders and will play a major role in the economic development of the country. Dr Tripathi also highlighted the importance of ethics in artificial Intelligence, digital public infrastructure, cyber security, quantum computing, molecular communication, etc., for society and associated challenges.
The programme further followed up with a detailed presentation by Prof. Puneet Misra, President, Indraprastha VIBHA, on the spectra of events planned for IISF 2023. Dr Misra highlighted about 16 events planned to be part of this four-day event, like the Student Science Village, Young Scientist’s Conference, Women Scientist and Entrepreneur Conclave, etc. He conveyed to the audience the role and objective of IISF, which involves the translation of science in the form of tradition, culture and festivals so that it can be disseminated to a maximum number of people, especially the youth of our country, to nurture and develop scientific temperament in future generations.
Another speaker, Dr Sushil Kumar, Chief Scientist, CSIR-NPL, gave an overview of CSIR-NPL, its mandate, past and present activities being performed at CSIR-NPL in the field of Metrology, Research, Skill development, and further assisting industries in various areas.
The programme concluded with a vote of thanks by Dr Sumit K Mishra, Coordinator, IISF Outreach Programme, followed by the National anthem.
