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Joint Secretary of DSIR/CSIR - Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, visits Sahyadri

01-Jan-2020
Joint Secretary of DSIR/CSIR - Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, visits Sahyadri

Mr. K R Vaidheeswaran, Joint Secretary of Department of Science & Industrial Research (DSIR)/Council of Science & Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. Of India, New Delhi is closely associated with the Director-R&D of Sahyadri – Dr. Manjappa S for the last 7 years and when Mr. Vaidheeswaran mentioned of his visit to Mangaluru along with his family, he was invited to Sahyadri for an interaction session in the best interest of Faculty and Research Scholars.

On moving around the campus and visiting the various initiatives made available to the students, he expressed his immense pleasure to view these activities at Sahyadri. Mr. Vaidheeswaran has served in various departments of the Ministry of Govt. Of India like Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Industrial Policy & Promotions, Ministry of Finance for Project Appraisals and currently posted in the Ministry of Science & Technology.

While interacting with the Senior Faculty and the Research Scholars, Mr. Vaidheeswaran, appraised the various modest schemes available for students and faculty to be utilized for their research assignments and also to support innovative ideas. He also gave inputs on the fiscal incentives given by the Govt. Of India in order to support research. He spoke about the highly sophisticated Laboratories and equipments funded by the Govt. which can be further utilized by us to conduct experiments on these rarely available machines/Labs.

While concluding the session, Dr. Manjappa S urged faculty and research scholars to send quality proposals to DSIR for funding their research.

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