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Jamshedpur , July 6 : A group second batch, comprising 52 students from KendriyaVidyalaya, Tatanagar accompanied by two teachers, Parmanand, SantwanaKabi visited CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur and interacted with scientists and research scholars in this morning under the Gigyasaprogramme, jointly collaborated by Ministry of HRD, Govt.of India and the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi. The students were thrilled to visit the laboratory and interact with scientists of different working group.
Dr. P.N. Mishra, principal scientist, welcome the students and teachers and briefed about the programme, discussed an overview of CSIR and NML, its contributions in different branches of Science & Technology also talked about natural resources like ores, minerals, rocks and its value for the development of minerals based and allied industries. A KSahu, senior technical officer has proposed a vote of thanks.
Students further visited to the Urban ores recycling unit. Dr. Pankaj Choubey, SRF has explained the different process and activities pertains to extraction of valuable metals from electronic appliance with experimented samples. Students has shown their interest to pursue project work in the e-waste area and they have asked questions and get suitable reply.
Mechanical Testing Unit was remained attraction among the students for getting opportunity to observed practical demonstration on rolling, forging and wire drawing. MrTipuKumar, interacted and discussed about the necessity and role of this unit for carrying out the R&D work in the area of metallurgy. Students asked number of questions and got satisfactory answers.
Students visited creep testing units of MTE Division and knew about fatigue, creep, fractures prevailing in different types of industrial components. Students got exposure of different machine like Servo Hydro Testing Machine, Servo Electrical Machine and Furnace. Mr.P.K. Roy, has talked about the role played by this unit towards solution of industrial problem.
Students were impressed to observe various equipment and facilities available at the Analytical Chemistry Centre. Dr. JayantaKonar, Senior Technical Officer has explained about the role of analytical chemistry division and discussed how this unit performing chemical analysis on minerals, ores, slag, water with the help of the state-of-the art equipment
Students were surprised to observed the 69 years� history of NML at museum and they asked different question based on sample and poster pertains to the minerals based product and facilities.
