What is One Week One Lab Campaign?

About One Week One Lab Campaign

• The One Week One lab campaign of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), will highlight India's global excellence in technology, innovation and Start-ups.
• In this campaign, each of CSIR’s 37 constituent laboratories, spread Nationwide, will showcase their legacy, exclusive innovations and technological breakthroughs every successive week. 
• During the campaign each CSIR lab shall be organizing week-long events including industry & start-up meet, students connect, society connect, display of technologies, etc.
• The campaign will also focus on academia and skill development, where interested students from varying domains get to know about the research activities and facilities of the CSIR laboratories and get a connection with prospects. 
• Industries & MSMEs Meets are targeted to establish an understanding between Science and Industry based on the requirement of the society or regional needs and to identify potential industries for co-development of Next Gen technologies and products.
• It will be an opportunity to create networks of Govt- Academia-Industry for faster deliveries and deployments of technologies.

 

What is CSIR?

• It is the largest research and development (R&D) organisation in India which was set up in 1942.
• It is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology

 

What is the Structure of the Organisation?

• The Prime Minister of India (Ex-officio) is the President of this organisation.
• Vice President: Union Minister of Science and Technology (Ex-officio)
• Governing Body: The Director-General is the head of the governing body.
• The other ex-officio member is the finance secretary (expenditures).

 

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Q1) Who established Traditional Knowledge Digital Library?

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library was established by CSIR. It is accessible in five international languages (English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish).

Source: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, all 37 CSIR Labs in India will be turned into Global Centers of Research and Innovation in their respective fields of Specialization