National Technology Day Celebrations

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Ministry of Science & Technology
11-May, 2015 16:34 IST

National Technology Day Celebrations

National Technology Day celebrations were held at an impressive function in Vigyan Bhavan, in New Delhi today. The Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan while complimenting Indian Scientists for doing a good job had urged them to connect themselves to the lives of the people through their work. He recalled how the former Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had given us the National Technology Day on this day on 11th May in 1998, when the country achieved a major technology break through by successfully carrying out nuclear tests at Pokhran. On the same day India performed successful test firing of the Trishul Missile and had test flown the first indigenous aircraft – ‘Hansa – 3’. He called upon all scientists in various institutes to come togateher to do brainstorming for finding solutions in the coming days in the context of ‘Make in India’ programme.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that after Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee we are now having another Prime Minister who wants to put science to use for achieving extraordinary things and restore glory to India.

Earlier the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had given a message greeting the people on the occasion of the National Technology Day- Press Information Bureau.

To mark the occasion Dr. Harsh Vardhan had felicitated Dr. Satyajit Mayor, Director National Centre for Biological Sciences, Professor Manindra Agarwal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Dean, Faculty Affairs, IIT-Kanpur and Prof. Ajay Sood, Professor, Department of Physics, IISC, Bengaluru for their contributions to science and for being elected to international International science bodies. The Minister also gave national awards for successful commercialization of the indigenous technologies to M/s Troikaa Pharmaceuticals Limited Ahmadabad for indigenous development of novel technology for topical drug deliver and its commercialization and the National Award, for Technology Business Incubators for the year 2014, was presented to Startup Village, Kochi in recognition of the remarkable work done in fostering the spirit of innovation & entrepreneurship and promoting an ecosystem for innovation driven entrepreneurs.

Innovative Products supported by the Technology Development Board were launched and books/publications on issues relating to innovation and entrepreneurship were released on the occasion.

Earlier Member for Science & Technology in the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Ayog in Hindi) Dr. V.K.Saraswat spoke on the theme of ‘Inclusive Innovation for India’. He said though science had done substantial contribution for agriculture, industry and service sector, much more needs to be done in the areas of energy, power, water supply, health and there is a need for a second agricultural revolution in the country.

Chairperson and CMD Biocon Dr. Kiran Majumdar Shaw delivered a lecture on the topic of ‘Creating an Ideas Economy to Innovate the Future’. She said India should try to exploit its strength in the field of biotechnology, like in US where there is a lot of work in progress in this sector. She said personalized treatment through genomics is an area where India can persue.

Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Professor Vijay Raghvan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Dr. Shailesh Nayak , DG, CSIR, Dr. M.O. Garg several scientists, industrialists and students participated in the celebrations.

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Prime Minister's Office
11-May, 2015 08:05 IST
PM greets the nation on National Technology Day

Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has greeted the nation on National Technology Day.

"Greetings to my fellow Indians on the occasion of National Technology Day. Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan," the Prime Minister said.

The Prime Minister's complete message to the nation on National Technology Day:

 

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On National Technology Day, Here Are India’s Top 6 Technology Fuelled Innovations

On May 11, 2008, India successfully tested 5 nuclear powered bombs in Pokhran, Rajasthan, to demonstrate it’s defense capability and might. This is regarded as one of the defining moments of Indian history, as the world was in awe and shock, not able to comprehend how a developing country was able to procure and carry forward nuclear tests with such precision and accuracy. And more importantly, even the CIA and US Govt. couldn’t forecast these nuclear detonations. Listen to Indian ex-PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, declaring the success of Pokhran nuclear tests:

In order to commemorate this historical moment of India’s technological capability and expertise, Indian Government declared May 11 as National Technology Day. Various events and workshops are organized all across the nation to promote and create awareness about the power of Technology & it’s usage in Nation Building.
PM Modi congratulated all on this occasion, as he Tweeted that Technology has the power to transform lives.

On this occasion, we present before you 6 innovations, fuelled by technology, which made India proud:

PARAM Super computer
During the 80s, US and some other European countries developed super computers, which were critical for developing satellites and nuclear weapons. These countries refused to transfer the knowledge of creating super computers to India, and it created a major issue in our progress.

It was in 1988, that the Indian Govt. established Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). They were given a budget of Rs 30 crore (which was the cost required to purchase and import a super computer from USA, if allowed) and a time duration of 3 years to create India’s own super computer.

In 1991, India created it’s own super computer: PARAM 8000, which surpassed several other super computers of that time; and directly placed us behind USA in terms of supercomputing power.

Last year, PARAM Super computers were declared as world’s most power efficient systems; and in 2013, 4 supercomputers were ranked in World’s fastest 100 super computers.

ISRO’s Mars Mission
On November 5th, 2013, India became Asia’s first and World’s 4th nation to launch its own Mars mission. Codenamed as Mangalyaan, the project needed only $73 million to complete, which is almost one-tenth of the budget of USA’s Mars mission and less than the budget of movie Gravity.

Mangalyaan is also the first instance when a country was able to send an interplanetary mission in it’s first attempt.

As of now, Mangalyaan is orbiting Mars and sending us crucial data related to space and its environment.

INS Kolkata & Light Combat Helicopter
6800 ton INS Kolkata is India’s largest ever warship which has been completely and independently Made in India. It was commissioned in August last year. Manufactured with a budget of Rs 3051 crore, this has been hailed as one of the world’s most powerful and lethal missile destroyer.

In 2010, HAL developed India’s first Light Combat Helicopter: TD-1 and then later TD-2 and TD-3, the technology of which was developed and researched completely in India. As per IAF, development of Light Combat Helicopter, independently in India, paved way for self-reliance in the defense sector.

Fiber Optics Revolution
Very few Indians are aware of the fact that an Indian played very important role in development and mass production of optical fiber cable, which paved the way for Internet expansion and telecommunication explosion.

Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany is an Indian-born American physicist, who is considered as one of the founders of fiber optics. He has worked extensively in the areas of fibre-optics communications, lasers, biomedical instrumentation, solar energy and pollution monitoring and currently holds more than 100 patents.

He is described as a brilliant tech-entrepreneur and researcher, who missed the Nobel Prize by a small fraction.

Team Indus & Robots on Moon
Early this year, an Indian startup named Team Indus, became the first from the nation to win $1 million to land a robot on the surface of Moon. This space startup from India participated in a competition by Google called Google X and competed against 26 teams from all over the world to win this competition.

By doing so, Team Indus will become the first private company in the world to have landed a robot on the Moon.

Atomic Power to Help Agriculture
In 2013, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) announced that they have achieved breakthrough in agriculture production using radioactivity and atomic power. This was one of the most exciting developments to have occurred in India and Asia, based on the applications of technology and nuclear power.

Using radiation technologies, BARC was able to develop new variants of crops such as cereals, pulses and oil seeds which can not only resist insects and bugs, but can also last long and mature early. 15 new varieties of grounds-nut, 3 new varieties of mustard, two new forms of soyabean and one new sunflower variant were developed using technology.

Besides these, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has created new milestones of agriculture research, harnessing technology and innovative ideas.

Despite such stellar tech innovations, there is a long way to go. We are still ranked 66th on the Global Innovation Index; and lots of new research and inventions which should happen in India ends up in a Western world.

We hope that on this National Technology Day, Indian innovators and technologists come up with far advanced, better and robust applications which can transform lives.

 

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