Hyderabad, January 18: There is an immense need to popularise earth sciences among the younger generation.
The NGRI will start teaching the trans-disciplinary subject of earth sciences and plans to offer post-graduate programmes and PhDs which are not ordinarily taught in colleges and universities, Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari, Director General of CSIR, has said.
Speaking at the 50th Foundation Day celebrations at the NGRI, he said the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research would float ACSIR (CSIR Academy) to achieve that objective.
The academy would provide students with hands-on training, instrumentation, experimental learning and dealing with real-time problems in the field of earth sciences.
With an aim to establish a brand value for the 37 laboratories under CSIR, they would be prefixed with CSIR and all the research papers and books published by the scientists working for these laboratories would be published under the name ‘CSIR Academy Publications’, he said.
Brahmachari inaugurated the first-of-its-kind ‘Gas Hydrate Research Centre’ at the NGRI (National Geophysical Research Institute) campus in Secunderabad.
–Agencies