Lucknow: Second day of CSIR Platinum Jubilee Technofest receivedoverwhelming response of visitors 1000 people from different schools, colleges, former CSIR directors, retired CSIR personals and university faculty members, members of BioTech Park, entrepreneurs and general public visited the exhibits and witnessed the demonstration of diverse technologies developed by CSIR under one roof at CSIR-IITR, Lucknow. Scientists and members from Lucknow based CSIR labs, CSIR-IITR, CSIR-NBRI, CSIR-CDRI and CSIR-CIMAP and resource centre for CSIR-Central Food Technologies Research Institute (CFTRI) and a Regional Centre for Extension & Development (RCED) of CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) in Kanpur were interacted with the visitors. The technologies such as technology for water purification, BGR-34, Streptokinase “the block booster” drug which made paradigm shift for the patient suffering from heart attack, technology to detect adulteration in milk, medicinal and aromatic plants, renewable energy technologies, enabling green leather processing technologies and skill development initiatives taken by CSIR attracted most of the visitors including industrialists. Professor Alok Dhawan, Director CSIR-IITR said that one of its kind of exhibition of all CSIR technologies and also get first-hand experience in checking oil and milk quality that are essential products of day today life.
