Indus Valley Times

Bhubaneswar, Feb. 13 : An Advanced Management Development Program (AMDP) on “Mineral and Material Innovations for Sustainable Future” sponsored under ESDP scheme of Ministry of MSME, is being organized by School of Enterprise Management, National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (ni-msme) (An organization of Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India & ISO 9001:2015 Certified), Hyderabad in association with CSIR-IMMT (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India), Bhubaneswar from February 13 -18, 2023 at Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Hall of CSIR IMMT Bhubaneswar.

Inaugurating the event and Dr G Narahari Sastry, Director, CSIR-IMMT said, “I have realised the innovation of entrepreneurship in the current situation for sustainable development. There are several challenges in the world, opportunities are really very high for the young generation. India has come in a long way in past 75 years, one of the most formidable nations in the world to make its own mark in the modern development. This type of initiative will help us people who have some small ideas to take them to the logical end. I am sure that this one-week program will help you to explore what are you can do. You already have some ideas and if you have an idea it is a very good place for you to see that how your idea can be taking shape in the form of product or start-up or if you want to really get some support what are support required and possibility are there and I am very happy to see the eminent judges CSIR-MMT and other resource persons will be very happy to interact with you and clear any doubt you have and most importantly I feel that every one of us who wanted to achieve something in life should have a clarity in  our thinking and should have a go. We should try to know what we want to do in life in a larger perspective, in a medium perspective and in short term perspective. I am sure this training program will give you a lot of information on the available resources technologies and how do you make an idea work”.

The major objective of this residential intensive training program (conducted in offline mode) is to connect science and technological innovations for entrepreneurial sector and attended with about 60 participants including Entrepreneurs, aspiring technologists from various R&D Institutes and Universities from different parts of the country. The program includes theory and practical sessions, interactions, demonstrations, lab visit and a filed / industrial visit spanning over six full days, wherein the participants get a very insightful knowledge on the practical aspects of Mineral and Material Innovations.

Smt. V Swapna, Associate Faculty (ni- msme) & Programme Director addressed the participants briefing about ni-msme activities. Dr A K Sahu, Chief Scientist and Dr T Pavan Kumar, Senior Scientist were among the other who played key role in fruitful conduct of this program. Inaugural event was being graced by about 200 invitees including the program participants, making it a great beginning.