Bengaluru :

Dr VK Saraswat, member, NITI Aayog, inaugurated the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) and the National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru on Wednesday. Saraswat, an alumni of the Institute, recalled his student days during which it was a challenge to conduct experiments in combustion. “It was my dream to have a state of the art Combustion Centre, and I am glad we have one today,” he added.

The Centre is part of the new Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research at IISc.

R V Ravikrishna, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and a Coordinator of the National Centre for Combustion Research and Development, said that the Centre would focus on industrially relevant problems and translational research. He also said that the Centre has planned memorandums of agreement with laboratories belonging to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, in order to utilise the complementary strengths. The Combustion research centre also aims to leverage new national initiatives such as IMPRINT in the domains of energy and security & defence.

Prof Anurag Kumar, director, IISc, expressed hope that the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research would work towards developing indigenous technology.

source:  http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Bangalore / by Rohith B R, TNN / January 06th, 2015