Students of JH Tarapore School get exposures of R&D activities at NML

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Jamshedpur, Dec. 15 : A group of 49 students from J.H. Tarapore School, Datkidih accompanied by two teachers, Nimisha Kaushik and Mohua Ghosh visited CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur and interacted with scientists and research scholars this morning under the aegis of Jigyasa -NML School Interactive programme. The students were thrilled to visit the laboratory and interact with working group.

The programme was schedule for three hours. P.N. Mishra, principal scientist, coordinated & delivered welcome address and briefed about the programme and highlighted the major achievement of CSIR and NML and also discussed about the natural resources like minerals, ores, rocks and how NML is helping to make these materials to be useful for the industry and society by the application of basic research, applied research and industrials research. Dr. S.K. Mandal, Chief Scientist and coordinator of the programme discussed about fundamental fact of science and its application in regular life. The students expressed their feelings, asked numbers of questions and clarify their doubt. Dr. A.K. Sahu, Senior Technical Officer, CSIR-NML proposed the vote of thanks.

Further, Dr. P.N. Mishra & Shri S.N. Hembram, Sr. Technical Officer organized laboratory visits for students and teachers to gain practical exposures through interaction with the present working group and observing various samples.

Students further visited at creep testing units of Materials Testing & Evaluation Division, Mr. Prabir Kumar Roy, Sr. Technical Officer explained nicely 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.

Electronic Waste Unit attracted students and teachers, Dr. Pankaj Choubey, Research Associate explained the methodology and the steps involved in the recycling of various electronic appliance for recovery of valuable metals like gold, copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel etc.

Students, at the last phase of the programme also visited to NML museum and they were surprised to have a glance on the 70 years� history of NML, displayed through wall mounted posters, samples and products at the museum and they asked few questions based on sample and poster pertaining to minerals based product and facilities.

During the concluding session, teachers and students requested for their next visit to the laboratory for gain deeper knowledge. Teachers expressed their view and was satisfied to know about the consistent effort and research emphasis given in various sectors for the ultimate development of India. They also extend 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.