Visit of Hon’ble Minister of Education, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan ji

Witnessed the Research and Innovation Exhibition at IIT Guwahati on 21st Nov,2021

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of Education, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship had visited the R&D and II&SI Research & Innovation Exhibition as part of the inaugural program of major infrastructure Projects in IIT Guwahati. Dr. Ranoj Pegu, Hon’ble Education Minister of Assam and Smt. Queen Oja, Hon’ble MP were also witnessed the event. The Centre for Nanotechnology exhibited their nano-enabled healthcare, energy harvesting, and LED prototypes, devices and technologies, start-ups/ incubation ecosystem, high-end R&D outputs in the area of nanofabrication and nanoelectronics, etc. The centre for sustainable polymers (CSP) also exhibited their biodegradable plastics and associated technologies that encourages carbon foot print. The hon’ble minister specifically reminded the role of CSP in Association with Numaligarh Refinery Limited in utilizing bamboo biomass towards sustainable Materials production which is the main theme of NRL-Susmat project. The Mehta School of Data science and Artificial Intelligence have also showcased their latest technological interventions in their domain. The other major departments of Engineering and sciences had impressed the minister of education with their thought-provoking research and innovative commercializing capable technologies a lot. Overall, with the support of the Industrial Initiative and special interactions cell the event got major attention on the occasion of the minister of education visit.