Jamshedpur, Aug. 31: A group of 39 students from DAV Public School, Patelnagar accompanied by two teachers Shalini Rosleen Charanand� Abhishek Kumar, visited at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur and interacted with scientists and research scholars this morning under the aegis of �Gigyasaprogramme�. The objective of this programme is to provide exposures of research environment and motivate school students towards science and further encourage them to pursue career in the science stream. The students were thrilled and happy to visit the laboratory and interact with the scientists & research scholars.�
The programme was scheduled for a duration of three hours, which includes brief up about CSIR and NML, documentary film show and laboratory visits. Dr.P.N. Mishra, Principal Scientist, welcome to students and briefed about the programme, discussed an overview of CSIR and NML, its contributions in the exploitation of natural resources. Further, Dr. S.K. Mandal, Chief Scientist and coordinator of the programme discussed about relevance of science and how science are working towards the development of mankind. The students expressed their feelings, asked numbers of questions and clarify their doubt with scientist. Dr. A.K. Sahu, Sr. Technical Officer gave the vote of thanks.
Further, a laboratory visit programme was arranged by S.N. Hembram, Sr. Technical Officer and they have visited at Analytical Chemistry Centre, Materials testing and evaluation division and Electronic Waste Units and Museums.
Students were impressed to observed various equipment and facilities available at the Analytical Chemistry Centre. Soni Jha, nicely explained about the chemical analysis of minerals, ores and water have carried out by the conventional and instrumental methods.
Students further visited at creep testing units of MTE Division, C.V. Singh, explained about the fatigue, creep, fractures prevailing in different types of industrial components like boiler, reformer tubes, pressure vessel etc. Students get exposure of different machine like Servo Hydro Testing Machine, Servo Electrical Machine and Furnace.
The laboratory setup of Electronic Waste Unit was also attracted students and teachers, they shown interest about the methodology and the steps involved in recycling of various electronic appliances for recovery of valuable metals like gold, copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel etc.
During the concluding session, teachers and students requested for their next visit to the laboratory to gain the deeper knowledge. Teachers expressed their views and was satisfied to know about the consistent effort and research emphasis given in natural resources area for the ultimate development minerals based and allied industries in India as well as overseas. They also extend sincere thanks to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt.of India, to launch �GigyasaProgramme� tie up with council of Scientific & Industrial Research and they were extremely delighted to visit the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur.
