S. K. Joshi, Professor Emeritus, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, and former Director-General, CSIR, has said that the academic institutions like NITs can contribute to strengthen the energy security of India by training human resource needed for installation and maintenance of the solar energy systems.
Mr. Joshi was speaking on Sunday as the chief guest at the first convocation of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Goa. Mr. Joshi also cautioned about the list of challenges such as scarcity of electrical power, the need for agriculture modernization, polluted rivers and lowest per capita usable water in the world. He also said that the NITs could contribute to the ‘Make in India’ programme launched by the government by starting technology business incubators to nurture and support knowledge driven start-ups into successful business enterprises.
The President’s gold medal for the outstanding all-round performance in all disciplines of undergraduate programmes of study was awarded to Muhammad Muhsin P. Saleem for the batch 2010-2014.
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He also got the Director’s gold medal for the best academic performance in all disciplines of undergraduate programmes of study