National Centre for Clean Coal Research & Development inaugurated at Bengaluru

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New Delhi : Union Science & Technology Minister Dr  Harsh Vardhan on September 16, 2019, inaugurated the National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. The Government of India, through Department of Science & Technology, has set up the National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development (NCCCR&D) as a national level consortium on clean coal R&D led by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)-Bengaluru.

“The breakthrough research being pursued at IISc in clean coal domain could potentially be game changer for meeting the energy needs of the country in terms of higher efficiency and capacity at lower operating costs and size. I am sure this would result in research, development, and demonstration of state-of-art tools, products and processes which are of critical importance for our energy security,” said Dr Vardhan

Dr Vardhan also dedicated an Inter-disciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) to the Nation, India’s first of its kind centre equipped with state-of-art facilities for conducting wide spectrum of energy research by knowledge network of elite researchers.

“I am sure all these intense scientific efforts and collective endeavour would enable us to realise the vision of an affordable, efficient, compact reliable Clean Energy systems which will be robust and suitable in diverse geographic conditions,” said the Union Minister, while addressing the scientists. He stated, “The Government of India will be facilitating all such efforts and complementing and supplementing both in terms of technical knowledge and finances adequately for strengthening ICER, in particular and scientific community in general.”

Secretary, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, and Director, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Prof Anurag Kumar, were also present on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, DST, emphasised the need for accelerated clean energy innovation. “Creation of an eco-system for R&D and innovations involving all stakeholders is a priority and DST plans to have novel instruments and mechanisms for engaging stakeholders and developing appropriate partnership based on Technology Readiness Level (TRL) stages,” he said.