76th Foundation Day of CSIR Celebrated in New Delhi

1. Science & Technology Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has urged former scientists of CSIR to join a national mission to resolve the unresolved problems of the country through science. Addressing the 76th Foundation Day of CSIR in New Delhi, he said, the laboratories under CSIR should proactively involve those scientists, who were part of its family, as “scientists never retire”.
2. “Take a resolve on this Foundation Day, to diagnose the problems that remain unresolved during these 70 years; define specific goals and targets; make a team; develop a management plan and finally, a mechanism to monitor the implementation of the action on a year-to-year basis,” said Dr. Harsh Vardhan.

• Founder of CSIR:- Arcot Ramaswamy Mudaliar, Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar,
• Established on 26 September 1942,
• The President of CSIR:- Prime Minister of India,
• Director General of CSIR:- Ashutosh Sharma.