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PUNE: Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh on Saturday inaugurated Pune CSIR’s new building complex and interacted with StartUps.
The new Institutional Building of CSIR-URDIP is located in NCL Campus and the inauguration was marked by a mini exhibition with selected 30 StartUp founders working on themes of health, energy, environment, digitalization and automation.
Dr Jitendra took keen interest in Indian StartUps coming out with first of kind innovations like world’s first smokeless sanitary pad disposal and recycling system and World’s first dual powered ( grid +mechanical) bi?phasic defibrillator.
The Minister assured the founders to approach the Department of Science and Technology for liberal funding to scale up such global innovations. He also appealed to industries to partner with such success stories to make India’ Startup Ecosystem more vibrant and result-oriented.
Dr Jitendra Singh also lauded the companies for developing India’s first CDSCO approved circulating tumour cell diagnostic solution, India’s first and only bio?active glass based synthetic bone?graft substitute dental products, Next generation bionic arms, Customizable Intra?ocular lenses for improving vision post?cataract surgery and Next generation Sodium ion battery technologies.
Dr Jitendra concluded that with expansion of its institutional premises, opportunities for CSIR-URDIP to expand the scope and breadth of its diverse activities in this niche Informatics sector, and cater to more in-house students and external clients and stakeholders across the country, in respect of its skill development programmes, to further, accelerate and expand its contributions towards realizing Atma Nirbhar Bharat.
