{"id":3769,"date":"2019-07-22T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2019-07-22T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:33:46","slug":"nano-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/nano-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NANO MISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: mains: G.S paper III:\u00a0Technology missions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Nano Mission is an umbrella programme of Government of India for overall development in the field of Nano technology through studies, research and innovations.<\/li>\n<li>Nano technology deals with variety of applications in medical, space, telecommunications, food processing and environmental protection.<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledging its vast potential, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) launched a programme called Nano Science and Technology Initiative (NIST) in 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Nano Mission is successor of this programme. The Government approved Nano Mission in 2007.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today, India has emerged 6th worldwide in terms of scientific publications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OBJECTIVE OF THE NANO-MISSION <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Basic Research Promotion- <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure Development for Nano Science and Technology Research- it is proposed to establish a chain of shared facilities across the country.<\/li>\n<li>Nano Application and Technology Development Programmes- The Mission proposes to promote application-oriented Research and Development (R&amp;D) Projects.<\/li>\n<li>Human Resources Development- The Mission shall focus on providing effective education and training to researchers and professionals in diversified fields.<\/li>\n<li>International Collaborations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DIST ACTIVITIES IN NANO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SO FAR <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishment of Centres of Excellence- Eleven Units\/Core Groups on Nano Science have been sanctioned across the country.<\/li>\n<li>International Collaborative Programmes- Joint R&amp;D activities are already taking place with several countries. For example, with the US, several projects have been funded on CNTs in composites, nano-encapsulating materials, etc. under the DST-NSF programme.<\/li>\n<li>With Germany, a programme on engineered functional nano composites has started which could focus on magnetic properties, magnetic interactions, gas-solid interactions including catalysis, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Programmes are also on with Italy, EU and developing with Taiwan.<\/li>\n<li>ARCI, Hyderabad, which is an autonomous institutues of DST has active programme in nano materials with institutions in Russia, Ukraine, Japan, Germany and USA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: mains: G.S paper III:\u00a0Technology missions. The Nano Mission is an umbrella programme of Government of India for overall development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}