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The priority areas include sustainable energy technologies, environment and clean technologies, biobased economy, bio-based materials for different applications, food and agri tech

Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST) Dr S Chadrasekhar stressed aligning the priority areas with the scientific importance of India and Germany at an online webinar conducted as part of the outreach activity to promote the recently launched call for proposals for International Research & Training Group between DST and DFG. 

The priority areas include Sustainable Energy Technologies (generation, conversion, and storage), Environment and Clean Technologies, Biobased Economy, Bio-based materials for different applications, food and agri technologies, technologies for advanced manufacturing and Integration of AI and Machine Learning in all domains.

Prof Dr Katja Becker, President, DFG, German Research Foundation, highlighted that the programme will be a beacon for Indo-German partnerships. It will create strong research collaboration through a bottom-up approach to address global challenges.

SK Varshney, Head, International Cooperation Division, DST, suggested that this programme will not only achieve a larger objective but also train and build capacity among the scientist and researchers in a way that will be instrumental in facing other scientific challenges of the future.

Dr Katja Fettelschoß, Deputy Head of Division Research Careers, DFG, hoped that this new platform will build a long-term partnership between India and Germany and that the participation of young researchers in this programme should be promoted.

Over 80 participants from universities and institutions from both countries were present in this online webinar of IRTG and discussed their queries with the officials from the International Division of DST (Dr Rajiv Kumar, Scientist-E) and DFG (Martin Roatsch (Research Careers, IRTG Team, DFG) about the details of application process under joint IRTG call.

The priority areas include sustainable energy technologies,

Agro Universities

Under the grant, PAU will be conducting training sessions and awareness programmes

The Department of Fruit Science, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), has been granted the prestigious Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded project ‘DST STUTI’ ‘Synergistic Training Programme Utilizing the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure’ programme, by the Government of India, New Delhi. 

Dr Sandeep Singh, Senior Entomologist (Fruits), is the Program Coordinator of this project in collaboration with Dr GR Chaudhary, Professor of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh with hub and spoke arrangement. The special programme aims at human resources and its capacity building through open access to science and technology Infrastructure. 

According to Dr Sandeep Singh, the objectives will be achieved by organising short-term courses/workshops on the awareness, use and application of various instruments and analytical techniques. Under the grant of this programme, PAU will be conducting training sessions and awareness programmes under the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.’

The main focus will be to popularise science and research among the budding science students by organising various activities like quizzes, declamation, poster making competition and visits to analytical instrumentation facility, he said. The lab tour will create awareness among the school students about the role and application of analytical instruments in scientific research, he added.

The PAU Vice-Chancellor DK Tiwari; Dean Postgraduate Studies Dr Sandeep Bains; Director of Research Dr AS Dhatt; Dean, College of Horticulture and Forestry Dr MIS Gill; Additional Director Communication Dr TS Riar; and Head, Department of Fruit Science Dr HS Dhaliwal congratulated Dr Sandeep Singh for this achievement and wished them success in their future endeavours.

Under the grant, PAU will be conducting

Agro Universities, AgroPolicy, Agrotech

This will help the farmers to make arrangements before the spread of disease in the healthy crops.

To rescue the Indian farmers from the increasing crop loss problem due to pests and diseases, Department of Research & Development of Chandigarh University has come forward with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based mobile application which will detect the crop diseases at an early stage of farming cycle. This will help the farmers to make arrangements before the spread of disease in the healthy crops. Scientist F of SEED, NCSTC Division, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, Dr Rashmi Singh launched the mobile app along with Dean Research, Chandigarh University Prof Sanjeet Singh.   

While giving details about the mobile app, the inventor and project scientist of Chandigarh University, Amit Verma said, “The diseases like cut worms, potato tuber moth are common in potatoes. Early and Late Blight in Tomatoes severely damage the crop. To overcome from these and many other diseases, this detecting application can be used to identify and detect the illness in these crops in order to increase agricultural production.” 

Amit Verma explained that the mobile application works on three step disease detection which is based on Image Processing which matches the current picture of the crop with that of disease infected crop. Using the pattern matching technique the app prompts any significant change in the leaves, stems or branches. In addition, the mobile app offers suggestions to further treat the disease based upon the stage of the crop damaged by the pests and insects. The app will be able to detect 39 diseases in two crops while the study to extend the detection for 19 more crops is currently under-process. 

Dr Rashmi Sharma, DST Scientist F (SEED, NCSTC Division) department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, said that Chandigarh University has performed quintessentially well in terms of research and this shows the great character of Chandigarh University towards the society as this application is going to help millions of farmers across Punjab and India. 

This will help the farmers to make