Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal opens the centre of excellence at IIT Guwahati

  • | Sunday | 16th February, 2020

GUWAHATI: NRL Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Materials was inaugurated Union Minister of Human Resource Development Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal on February 14 at IIT Guwahati in the presence of Prof. TG Sitharam, Director IIT Guwahati and S K Barua, Managing Director, NRL. The centre is a first of its kind academic-industrial collaborative venture with the broad objective of developing sustainable materials from various waste and byproducts sourced from multiple sectors like petroleum industries bio-refineries and agro-industries. It will serve as an umbrella for many such upcoming collaborative research projects on the development of sustainable materials like bio-plastics and other value-added chemicals under one platform to serve the industries like NRL in combating environmental pollution, a press release said. Also Read: Ramesh Pokhriyal: North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) should play leading roleAlso Watch: International Day of Women and Girls in Science observed at Assam Startup the Nest in Guwahati

GUWAHATI: NRL Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Materials was inaugurated Union Minister of Human Resource Development Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal on February 14 at IIT Guwahati in the presence of Prof. TG Sitharam, Director IIT Guwahati and S K Barua, Managing Director, NRL. The centre is a first of its kind academic-industrial collaborative venture with the broad objective of developing sustainable materials from various waste and byproducts sourced from multiple sectors like petroleum industries bio-refineries and agro-industries. It will serve as an umbrella for many such upcoming collaborative research projects on the development of sustainable materials like bio-plastics and other value-added chemicals under one platform to serve the industries like NRL in combating environmental pollution, a press release said. Also Read: Ramesh Pokhriyal: North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) should play leading role Also Watch: International Day of Women and Girls in Science observed at Assam Startup the Nest in Guwahati

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