Innovative S&T

CSIR Solutions for Global

Leadership
VISION
2030

Council of Scientific &

Industrial Research
New Delhi 110 001
CSIR VISION – 2030
Innovative S&T for Global Leadership

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research

New Delhi 110 001
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CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research
(CSIR-NIScPR), New Delhi
 PREAMBLE

T he Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was

founded as an autonomous society in September 1942, to address
the needs of industrial research in the country. With Dr Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar as the first Director General, CSIR made forays into setting
up a chain of national laboratories starting with five national into labs.
This was the foundation of one of the largest publicly funded research
and development organisations in India. As CSIR turns 80 in 2022, it
has grown into an organisation with 37 labs of 3439 scientists, who
are supported by 4193 technical staff, 2514 administrative & other
support staff and about 5500 young scholars, that addresses every
facet of scientific development required in the country. CSIR has
made long strides in intellectual property generation and protection
and it continues to be the top patent-securing publicly funded R&D
organisation in India & abroad. Currently, CSIR has a patent portfolio of
8366 patents in India and 7806 aboard. As a result of research carried
out in the national laboratories over 5600 research papers have been
published in internationally peer reviewed journals. With the current
annual budget of Rs.5563 crores, CSIR continually realigns itself to
the changing needs of the country, establishing innovative R&D for
addressing emerging challenges. In recent times, CSIR has come out
with vision document 2001 and CSIR @ 80: Vision & Strategy 2022.
Keeping in view the aspirations of the country to be Atmanirbhar the
organisation has embarked on developing Vision 2030 within the
ambit of the National Vision 2047.

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 CSIR @ 2022
CSIR addresses national needs through its Assistive Devices and PPEs; and Supply
innovative research, strong fundamental Chain and Logistics Support Systems.
science, industry partnerships, From developing BiPAP-SwasthVayu
entrepreneurship, translation research, ventilators, Oxygen Plants to rapidly
capacity building, and policy making. deployable make-shift hospitals, and
Some of the significant contributions diagnostics, CSIR, as a whole, rose to the
of CSIR in the past decade include the needs of the nation.
development of an indigenous two-seater Today, CSIR labs are working
Hansa-NG aircraft for pilot training, cohesively and synergistically towards
Bio-jet fuel for sustainable aviation, harnessing the emerging opportunities to
developing India’s own footwear bring in new technology in key areas.
sizing system, earth-quake resistant
structures for seismic zone IV and
V and India’s first fuel cell driven Aerospace, Electronics,
Instrumentation & Strategic Sector
automotive. Besides pioneering work in
these areas, CSIR today has established
many societal benefit programs that
target marginalised communities,
including women such as; aroma Ecology, Environment,
Earth and Ocean sciences
mission, sea weed cultivation, first ever 2 Energy (conventional and
demonstration of heeng cultivation and non-conventional) and
the purple revolution in Jammu and Energy Devices
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Kashmir. CSIR labs are catering to the Chemicals and
un-met needs of the states and UTs such Petrochemicals
as North-East, Ladakh, H.P. through S&T Agriculture, Nutrition
Interventions. Embracing the new with our and Biotechnology
heritage, CSIR’s Traditional Knowledge
Digital Library now contains information Health Care
of about 4 lakh formulations of Ayurveda,
Mining, Minerals,
Siddha, Unani, and Sowa Rigpa, and Yoga Metals and Materials
techniques.
Civil Infrastructure
CSIR rose to tackle the challenges of and Engineering
the unforeseen pandemic, COVID-19,
that struck in 2020, by reorienting
the scientific manpower in providing
quick relief in various domains such
as, Digital and Molecular Surveillance;
Rapid and Economical Diagnostics; New Maintaining the country’s
measurement standards
Drugs / Repurposing of Drugs; Hospital

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Global networking has opened up new and habitat and biodiversity loss, with
horizons and as the world stands together its Vision@2030. The vision document
to face the challenges threatening our presents a new roadmap aligning to
planet, CSIR once again, re-orients National Vision 2047 for achieving
itself to face the immediate threats sustainable development, integrating
of climate change, health care, water national priorities and reaching new
scarcity, poverty, land use management, heights of prosperity.

Bio Jet fuel for COVID – 19 MAKESHIFT ‘Swasth Vayu’: Non-Invasive

Sustainable aviation HOSPITAL Ventilator For COVID-19
Patients

Distillation units at Seaweed cultivation Purple Revolution

Ladakh (Lavender)

Medical Grade Oxygen India’s first fuel cell

(MO2) Concentrator driven automotive
System

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CSIR VISION -2030

VISION
Enhance the quality of life of the citizens of India through innovative science
and technology, globally competitive R&D, development of sustainable
solutions and capacity building to fulfil the dream of Atmanirbhar Bharat.

MISSION
It is essential for CSIR and important for and societal needs
the country that it continues to be as • Improving wellness indices and
relevant as it was in the past, but even health outcomes through a synthesis
more so in the future particularly India’s of biology, chemistry, engineering
vision for 2047. The guiding beacon for and computation
CSIR would continue to be its mission • To be a leader in civil and
across various socio-economic sectors infrastructural engineering domain
as below. for the growth of sustainable civil
• Technology innovation and infrastructure
translational research and • Provide globally benchmarked
commercialization of technology sustainable processes for chemicals
and know-how to align with national leading to reduction in trade deficits
goals • Catalyze & optimize sustainable
• Development of national strengths production and processing of metals
through advanced technology and materials, their use and reuse
solutions for national aerospace for local and global benefits
programs, design and development • Ensuring sustainable agriculture
of small and medium sized civil and nutritional security through
aircraft to promote a vibrant Indian biotechnological research and
civil aviation innovation
• Synergizing diverse expertise to • Management and rejuvenation
solve the grand challenges of new- practices for the environment and
age science, industry and society natural resources
• Creation and demonstration of • Capacity building to enable globally
scalable and sustainable green competitive R&D
technologies in the energy • Developing technologies for Carbon
sector, contributing to real-time neutrality and achieving net zero
applications towards long-term plan across various industries
energy security of the country • Providing value-added services to
• Meeting international benchmarks the industry, and society at large

The long-term goals of CSIR are aligned to the aspirations for

India@2047 which encompasses new heights of prosperity

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THE NEED
Publicly funded national scientific sustainable development goals. The
organisations like CSIR need to vision, mission and deliverables are
periodically redefine and recalibrate sharply focussed on key areas of
their vision statement, mission and national knowledge and technology
the strategies to keep pace with the competitiveness in the global economic
ever changing global scientific and ecosystem, particularly in providing
disruptive innovation landscape, local and affordable solutions to the
industrial and technological needs of Indian society, industry and
breakthroughs and national strategic sector through cutting-edge
competitiveness driven by the global science, innovation, translation,
knowledge economies. This CSIR partnership and deployment. CSIR
vision document lays down the future being a unique organisation with
roadmap (short, medium and long core competence and deep expertise
term) for CSIR to maintain its scientific in diverse and specialised scientific
competitiveness and innovative edge domains from healthcare to aerospace
necessary to meet and actualise the relevant to the most the industrial/
national goals of India. The vision/ societal and strategic requirements of
mission document has been prepared the country, its new vision document
after multilayer consultations (internal has been prepared to bring the required
and external) with the stakeholders, clarity of purpose to the organisation
aligning CSIR goals with various to keep growing and live up to the
national schemes, missions and expectations of the country.

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CSIR
THEMATIC
VISION & GOALS
 CSIR THEMATIC VISION & GOALS

1.
Aerospace, Electronics
& Instrumentation and
Strategic Sector (AEISS)

VISION STATEMENT
A global R&D hub delivering state-of-the-art innovative technologies securing
India a leading manufacturing hub for aerospace, electronics & instrumentation
for civil & strategic sector

FOCUS AREAS
•• Civil & Military Aviation: Regional •• Electronics & Embedded Systems:
Air Connectivity, Urban Air Mobility, New Generation Semiconductor
UAVs & High-Altitude Platform Technologies and Sensors, High
(HAP) Power Microwave Devices,
•• Aerospace Advanced Materials/ Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser
Fuels: Aerospace Grade Carbon (QCL) & Components/systems
Fiber & Prepregs, Alternate for 5G/6G Communications,
Fuel (biofuel) and Lubricants, Optoelectronics
Thermoplastic Composites, Thermal •• Biomedical Instrumentation:
Barrier Coatings, stealth materials & Diagnostic & Therapeutic, Imaging
environment friendly coatings. & Machine Intelligence based
•• Aerospace Mechanical Systems: Technologies, Rehabilitation &
Indigenous Line Replaceable Units Assistive Technologies, Orthopaedic
(LRUs) suitable for Environmental Implants, Standard & Calibration
Control Systems (ECS) and Hydraulic Instruments
Systems, Fuel Line etc. Mechanical •• Smart Agriculture: Drone based
systems for civil & fighter including electronic control systems for smart
missile launching systems for agriculture & precision farming,
Defence

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Goals
Focus Areas Short Term Goals Medium Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Civil Aircraft for • 19-seater Light Transport • 70–90-seater Regional • Hybrid–Electric Aircraft
Regional Commutation/ Aircraft for connecting Transport Aircraft for (50%)
Connectivity Tier-II & Tier –III cities regional connectivity
• Fully Electric Aircraft
• Electric - 2 seater trainer • 5-Seater Electric (eVTOL) (100%) for renewable
Trainer Aircraft, Aircraft Flying Air Taxis electricity
Urban Air Mobility
• Solar powered high
altitude long endurance
UAVs : platforms as a low-cost
substitute to satellites,
• Broad-Band terrestrial infrastructure
Communication & and RPAS
Surveillance

• Heavy pay load & long • 100 kg pay load Long

endurance Endurance (1hr) BVLOS
UAVs

Aerospace Materials & • Lightweight Aircraft • Thermoplastic • Ceramic Radomes,

Coatings Armor, Metal Matrix Composite, Li.Al alloys, Indigenous MoS2-based
Composites, Smart Stealth Materials & sprayable lubricant
Composite Coatings Coatings for Fighter
Aircraft, Sustainable
Bio-fuels/ Alternate
Bio-fuel

Electronic • Sensors & MEMS • Cyber Physical Systems • New generation

Instrumentation fabrication – Gyroscope, & IoT Technologies semiconductor
– Radio Frequency RF MEMS switches, technologies & sensors
Microelectromechanical Accelerometer &
Systems (RF MEMS) based magnetometer • Tera Hertz quantum
Actuators & Sensors Cascade Laser (QCL)
and 6G Wireless • Next generation
• Optoelectronics Components optoelectronics &
Instrumentation – Near instrumentation for
Vertical Incidence civil & military
Skywave, Multi-sensing • HUD for Advanced applications
surveillance & seismic Medium Combat Aircraft
systems (AMCA)

TWTs for Satellite • Microwave devices & 5G • TWT, Klystrons, • THz BWOs for
Communication components systems Magnetrons, Gyrotrons, next generation
Plasma assisted devices communication & THz
& passive components spectroscopy

• GaN Fab & devices

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Medium Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Medical Devices & • 3D microscopy • Whole-slide digital • Drone ambulance with

Instrumentation visualization & guidance microscope, AI enabled cardiac specialty/features
system non-contact vital for organ/blood transport
signs monitoring, Non- etc.,
• Smart material for invasive- hemoglobin
orthopedic implants – measurement, Robotic • Indigenous robotic
cervical lattice spinal Vascular Catheterization assisted rehabilitation &
cages System assistive technologies.

• 3D endoscopic vision • Zirconia based clear • Emotions assessment

system for MIS dental braces, Lattice based psychological
structured cervical and health monitoring
spinal implants systems (PHMS)
• Biomedical equipment
standard for the
calibration of Electrical
safety & Incubator
analyzer

Indigenous Hansa-3(NG) for

Pilot Training (80 nos.LOI)

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 2.
Ecology, Environment,
Earth Sciences, Ocean
and Water (E3OW)

VISION STATEMENT

Evolving impactful knowledge-based solutions for resolving grand challenges

in natural resource exploration, mitigation of geo-hazards, ocean dynamics and
sustainable environment

FOCUS AREAS
• Solid Earth • Oceans
»» Geophysical Imaging and »» Marine and Coral Reef
Geodynamic Process Modeling Ecosystems
»» Anticipating Geo-Hazards & »» Coastal Processes and
Developing Early Warning Nearshore Dynamics
Systems »» Marine Natural Products for
»» Geo-exploration for mineral Various Industrial Applications
and energy resources • Water and Wastewater
• Ecology and Environment »» Aquifer Mapping and
»» Sustainable Resource & Groundwater Management
Environmental Process »» Conservation and Management
Management of Rivers, Lakes and wetlands
»» Waste Management »» Village Level Water
»» Environmental Policy and Management– A CSIR initiative
Planning for Gaon Ka Pani Gaon Me

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Goals
Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Solid Earth

Geophysical Imaging and Probing the Structure and A comprehensive model for A viable model for
Geodynamic Process Kinematics of the NW earthquake genesis along Earthquake genesis in
Modeling Himalaya for Assessment the Himalayan arc intra- and inter-plate
of Earthquake Hazard Deformation and Plate settings
Potential Kinematics in the Indo Imprints of early life and
A panoptic assessment of Burmese arc and Shillong craton evolution through
crustal deformation across Plateau geological times
India. Deciphering the role of Discovering new locales
Unravelling the antiquity climate and tectonics of conventional and
and geological evolution of in landscape evolution non-conventional energy
Singhbhum craton, Eastern and regional drainage resources
India reorganization in NE India
Natural Resource Establishment of Center
Exploration and Earthquake of Excellence for Earth
Hazard Assessment of the System modelling involving
UT of Ladakh AI & ML and Big data
Analytics
Anticipating Geo-Hazards & Earthquake Hazard Early Warning System Development and
Developing Early Warning Assessment in Moderate for Himalayan Floods, application of Earthquake
Systems and Severe Seismic Zones Landslides, GLOFs and Hazard Science for the
of India triggered Flow Cascades safety and security of the
Earthquake and Landslide Generating strain map of country
Hazard, Risk preparedness India Next generation
and mitigation in Jammu Earthquake Hazard Map of
and the UT of Kashmir the country
Seismogenesis of the NCR-
Delhi

Geo-exploration for Genetic model for Identification of target areas Establishment of

minerals and energy prognosticating deep for specific concealed ore contemporary rapid
resources concealed ore deposits deposits such as Iron, REE, analytical laboratories for
Development of innovative PGMs and Base metals mineral characterization
Seismic Data Acquisition Rare Metals and Rare Earth with specific reference to
techniques for detection of Elements (RM & REE) from the mineral industry
thin layers Beach Sand Minerals and Establishing strategies for
Assessment of CO2-EOR Marine Regions converting resources to
potential of declining CSIR’s facility on Carbon reserves for Concealed
oilfields and CO2 storage Capture and Utilization Iron Ore, REE, PGM, Base
potential of the Indian (CCU) Metal deposits, towards
coalfields achieving self-reliance
Application of Fiber-Optic
Evaluating the influence of Sensors for seismic Technologies for CO2
methane/methane hydrate monitoring Recycling & Solar energy
on ecology and biodiversity conversion to green H2/
Mapping of Unconventional Fuels
in the methane seep Resources such as CBM
locations in Indian EEZ and Shale Gas
Exploration of geothermal
resources in Ladakh

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Ecology and Environment

Sustainable Resources Air quality Monitoring and Air Pollution Control Tools for Bio-monitoring
and Environmental Process Modeling Measures & Technology environmental niches, with
Management development (Green specific reference to water
crematoria) and soil
Degraded land reclamation

Assessment of Micro Quantitative Risk

Land slide /slope Plastics in aquatic Assessment and Disaster
stabilization environments Management Plan

Human exposure analysis Center of Excellence for

and health risk assessment Climate Change mitigation/
including fugitive emissions adaptation strategies and
cross disciplinary CCUS
initiatives
Pollution control methods
for Urban regions, biomass
& MSW burning, vehicular
emission
Molecular level
understanding of fate and
transportation of pollutants
(As, Cr, molecular
markers )

Waste Management SAR AR-CoV2 surveillance Antimicrobial Resistance Strategies & technologies
in domestic sewage (AMR) mitigation in for the environmentally
and Wastewater-Based WWTPs sound management of
Epidemiology (WBE) E-waste, Bio-medical,
Waste, Plastic, Waste
Comprehensive Industrial Solid Waste,
assessment & menstrual waste
characterization of existing
solid waste system

Assessment and
remediation of
contaminated sites

Environmental Policy and Advisory to NGT, Development of Decision Development and validation
Planning Government departments Support Tool for informed of Biomarkers for Health
decisions and actions Risk Assessment for
environmental regulations

Engagement with experts

and stake holders and build Life Cycle Assessment
partnerships (LCA) tools for Ecological
Planning & Application

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Oceans

Marine and Coral Reef Sustainable utilization and Biodiversity, The Deep Sea microbial
Ecosystems management of resources Biogeochemistry and diversity of the Indian
in the South Eastern Ecology of Subsurface Thin Ocean
Arabian Sea Biological Layers of the
Indian Ocean

Centre of Excellence in
Interactions between trace Marine Viral Research
metals and marine biota in Ocean acidification along
the Indian Ocean the Indian Coast

MetaDNA repository for the

Indian Ocean
Trans-disciplinary Research
for improved forecasting of
Indian Marine Fisheries
Development of techniques
to remove atmospheric CO2
from the ocean
Development of Deep Sea
Autonomous Vehicle rated
upto 6000 mts depth
Expansion of oxygen
minimum zones (dead
zones) in the northern
Indian Ocean

Coastal Processes and Long-term evolution of Role of climate change on Exploring the carbon
Nearshore Dynamics monsoon and associated the health of the coastal offset potential of coastal
processes waters along the Indian ecosystem
coast

Ecological processes Climate Change-driven

and prediction of coastal Coastal and Deep-Sea impacts on the coastal zone
pollution in Mumbai waters Bioluminescence in the
Indian Ocean

Setting up of coastal
observatories and
Monitoring of Coral reefs predictive systems

Marine Natural Products Farming of Seaweeds and Marine natural products Development of marine
for Various Industrial their Value Addition as an for healthcare, food & derived molecules for some
Applications Alternative Livelihood For aquaculture industries therapeutic areas specially
Coastal Fisher Folk cancer & infectious
diseases

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Water and Wastewater

Water High Resolution Aquifer Sustainable groundwater Real time prediction

Mapping & Management in management in water with Big data and ML for
Arid Regions of India scarce areas using Decision Support Tool
Development of affordable heliborne technology Establishment of Critical
IoT-enabled Water Service Conservation and zone observatories
Delivery Systems Management of Rivers, Subsidence of global deltas
Development of a novel Lakes and wetlands (sinking of river deltas and
technique for 3D sub- Village Level Water remediation measures
surface mapping Management– A CSIR Creation of a Centre of
Design and development of initiative for Gaon Ka Pani Excellence on Hydrological
mid-size desalination plant Gaon Me Models & Projections
(1.0 MLD) in coastal areas Arsenic Hazard Evaluation management
In the Ganga-Brahmaputra Establishing Centre of
Basin and Management Excellence for developing
Solutions for Alleviation India centric hydrological
Single stage seawater models.
reverse osmosis membrane
and module development
Fabrication of the world's
thinnest polyamide nanofilm
(4.5 nm thick) composite
membrane/ modules for
desalination
Development of energy
efficient electrochemical
remediation / desalination
and comprehensive reject
management processes

Wastewater Redesigning for efficiency Achieving Carbon Neutrality Development of Sanitation

optimization of Soak Pit in Wastewater Treatment safety plan- (100% sewage
Redesigning & Plants treatment, recycling &
development of of Common Development of compact, reuse) by 2047 in cities
Effluent Treatment Plant integrated & efficient STP Bio-mimetic and Phyto-
(CETP) to suit different to suit Urban needs Technologies designed for
Industrial clusters Development of low-cost purification and
multifunctional granular recovery of water
biomass for improved
wastewater treatment
Bio-surfactants and its
use in environmental
remediation

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 3.
Energy (Conventional
& Non-conventional) &
Energy Devices

VISION STATEMENT
To be a global leader in benchmarking scalable and sustainable green technologies,
ensuring long-term energy (conventional & non-conventional) security of the
country, managed through renewable and non-renewable energy resources to
enable self-reliant India as a global hub for start-ups in energy sector

FOCUS AREAS
• Coal Energy (including clean coal • Hydrogen Energy including
technologies/gas/gas hydrate) Hydrogen Economy
»» Development of gasification and »» Next-generation and indigenous
syngas utilization technologies for low- and high-temperature proton
conversion of coal to methanol, exchange membrane fuel cells, and
and chemicals water electrolyser membranes for
»» Direct extraction of hydrogen green hydrogen
from coal and green hydrogen »» End-to-end technologies for
production via blue-green/green hydrogen value chain including
microalgae and bacteria by a generation, storage, and utilization
combined fermentation process
using versatile substrates • Energy Conversion and Related
Devices
• Petroleum/Bioenergy including Bio-
waste to Energy »» Development of third generation
photovoltaics for decentralized
»» Reduction of crude oil import and
and off-grid energy harvesting
making India self-sufficient in
applications
sustainable aviation fuel and green
fuel implementation »» Light sharing agri-voltaic, and
»» Promotion of bio-jet fuel, green solar-allied technologies, smart
diesel, bio-diesel, and waste plastic materials, devices, and planar
to diesel production apart from optics
Focus Area Continue on next page...
integrated 2G ethanol technology

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FOCUS AREAS
• Energy Materials and Energy economy approach, safety ensured
Storage Devices BMS and fast charing options
»» Development of Li-ion batteries • Energy Management/Energy &
(LIBs) for India-specific Environment
applications, beyond lithium »» Energy conservation through
technologies for consumer integrated energy audit and
electronics and hybrid devices for sustainable energy management
e-mobility in CSIR labs
»» Battery recycling and efficient »» Industrial Energy Audit and
recovery of metals from spent benchmarking studies
batteries based on circular

Goals
Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Coal Energy Coal to Methanol Membrane-based Syngas via dry, bi- and tri-
technology for direct reforming, Direct Methane
extraction of hydrogen from to lower olefins, Methanol
coal (oxygenates) and Aromatics

Solar energy-Based Syngas to lower olefins Database on mercury in

cooking system (Solar Indian coal
Chulha)

Beneficiation of coking coal CO2 capture via microbial Developing Certified

fines and washery rejects route Reference Materials
by flotation process (CRMs) for coal, coal ash
and solid biofuels

Petroleum Energy Biomass waste to bio-coal Petroleum residue or heavy Bio-jet fuel and Green
oil to fuel Diesel production

Bio-CNG Integrated Bio-ethanol Bio-diesel production

Technology
2G ethanol (enzymes and Plasma treated MSW for
waste) and waste plastic to syngas production
diesel

Hydrogen Energy Economically viable green Storage and distribution To provide technology
hydrogen production from infrastructure and market intelligence
all possible options to Indian companies in
the area of hydrogen
technologies

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Energy Conversion and Development of technology Development of Development of Prototypes

Related Devices (R&D) for solar cells and Nanogenerator-based & Modules of DSSC,
agrivoltaics energy conversion devices, TE and SPV, building
Development of Lab-scale integrated photovoltaics
Devices / Characterization (BIPV) and agrivoltacis
(BIAV)

Energy Storage and Safer lithium ion batteries Supply chain creation and Public-private partnership,
Devices (LIBs) and LIB pack management to ensure commercialization
development for EV and sustainable LIB technology
strategic applications

Beyond lithium technologies Electrodes & electrolytes Rechargeable Zn-air

for real-time applications to match with changing batteries, Metal-halide
battery chemistry and its and Organic Redox Flow
applications in devices Batteries, Battery and
Supercapacitor Hybrid
Device

Battery management Master-Slave BMS with Establishing end-to-

systems for safer LIBs energy management end indigenous supply
system for BESS chain and large scale
applications & manufacturing of raw
materials and electrodes
EV swapping stations
Renewable energy-based
multi-unit EV charging
for the battery-swapping
station
Energy Management / Data science & machine Energy management Advanced and India
Energy & Environment learning applications in system (EMS) for Industry specific carbon capture &
energy management 4.0 utilization technologies for
the energy sector

Assessment and Energy Conservation LCA of various energy

Remediation of through Integrated Energy options, Advanced waste
environmental impacts Audit and Sustainable incinerators with energy-
for energy technologies Energy Management in efficient emission control
including renewable energy CSIR Labs and Capacity including decentralized
options Building biomedical waste
incinerators, and mask and
sanitary pads incinerators

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 4. Chemicals (incl. Leather)
& Petrochemicals

VISION STATEMENT
Becoming a global leader in R&D on chemicals, petrochemicals, leather, and footwear
with a focus on developing technologies that are economically, environmentally, and
socially acceptable, with lesser carbon, energy and water footprint compared to
benchmarked alternatives.

FOCUS AREAS
• C1 Chemistry glycerol, and other biomass derived
To reduce CO2 emissions through products to hydrogen, conversion of
improving energy and atom cellulosic biomass into well identified
monomers/ chemicals and materials,
efficiency of processes, moving to
especially in integrated biorefineries.
renewable energy sources, and by
converting syngas from gasification • Agrochemicals
or bi-reforming of CO2 with methane Structure based design of sustainable
from point sources into chemicals indigenous crop protection agents,
and materials, replace fossil derived screening for new and proprietary
chemicals like formic acid, olefins, agrochemicals, Season long lures,
BTX, alkyl carbonate, and to C5+ deuterated pheromones, PBW
chemicals by catalytic processes and FAW and blends for select
using renewable carbonaceous high-priority pests as identified by
resources. concerned stakeholder ministries,
improved and targeted delivery of
• Biomass to Chemicals & Leather
formulations with minimal impact
Substituted phenols and other on desired biodiversity. AI driven
oxygenates from lignin, hemicellulose approaches to increase accuracy, and
and other bioresources such as speed of solution identification and
cashewnut shell liquid, reforming of development.

Focus Area Continue on next page...

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• Marine chemicals including potash • Performance and Fluoro Chemicals

fertilizers, salt, and magnesia: Build self-reliance in medicinal
Substitute potash imports by ~10% chemistry, polymer and composites,
of 2021 baseline by 2030; ultrapure dyes and pigments, smart coatings,
salts that meet pharma needs and biodegradable polymers for non-
fortified salts; high purity refractory leather footwear, security printing
grade magnesia for the Indian steel inks, energy materials, biological
industry, marine-based biopolymers materials, and up segment
and chemical / bioactives. leather. Develop 4 generation
th

refrigerants with zero ODP and

negligible global warming potential,
• Active Pharma ingredients and Key processes for fluoro intermediates
starting material for agrochemicals, fluorinated
Replace 20% of 2021 level API, chemicals for electronic industry,
KSM and intermediates import pharmaceuticals etc.
with domestic alternatives by
2030. Identify effective molecules
as new molecular entities, Solvent • AI/ ML framework for accelerated
free mechanochemical synthesis design
and solvent based solid form To develop AI-ML framework for
screening; Nanoformulations based accelerated product, and process
on biopolymers, biodegradable design for catalyst design, material
carriers, vesicles and having target design, solvent design, process
specificity. design, and automatic tools for
• Sustainable Chemistries online process control, fault
detection and diagnosis. To employ
The target is a 50% reduction by AI-ML framework to address
2030 relative to 2021 baseline in industrially relevant problems such
use of water, solvents, and energy as conversion of biomass and CO2
for at least 5 major bulk chemicals, to value added chemicals, hybrid
processes of 50,000 tons per year materials for hydrogen storage and
or more annual production within sorption enhanced steam methane
India and 50+ specialty chemical reforming process, green solvents
processes with industry acceptance. for separation processes, process
Progress towards net zero carbon design for gasifier, photocatalytic,
footprint in leather processing and multiphase reactors.
and biodegradable strategies for
footwear.

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Goals
Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

C1 Chemistry and CO2 Establish 2.5 TPD semi- Lab scale process for To reduce CO2 emissions
Chemicals commercial pilot plant at converting syngas directly e.g., by increasing
industrial location forMeOH to DME with more than process efficiencies,
to DME using CSIR’s 85% conversion and 60% hydrogen generation
technology comprising selectivity from methane using
globally benchmarked pyrolysis, etc
catalyst giving greater
than 85% conversion, CO2 chemicals to
99% selectivity and high formic acid and other
durability high value chemicals/
materials through new
processes such as
flow electrochemistry/
photochemistry, etc;

Lower olefins through

hydrogenation and to
C5+ chemicals by
catalytic processes

Biomass to Chemicals & Leather like materials from Substituted phenols from Sustainable solutions
Leather cellulosic biomass lignin for utilization of all the
lignocellulosic biomass
Black liquor based dyes Develop process
and synthetic tanning chemistries for one high At least 2 C6 & C5
agents for leather value chemical derived from chemicals
CNSL
At least 2 C6, 2 C5
chemicals Country wide mapping of
resources

At least 2 C6, 2 C5
chemicals

Agrochemicals Technology transfer Season long lures, AI driven approaches

packages for 5 deuterated pheromones, to identify plant tissue
agrochemicals PBW and FAW and blends diseases would be
for Anar butterfly undertaken to identify
the right chemistries
needed. Hybrid pesticides,
botanical extracts, plant
growth regulators

Marine Chemicals including Potash fertilizers using Substitute potash imports New chemistries and
Potash Fertilizers, Salt, and distillery spent wash and by ~10%; Ultrapure niche competence on
Magnesia ash, and sea bittern salts that meet pharma marine-based bio-polymers
needs; fortified salts; and chemicals/bio-actives
High purity refractory for diverse applications
grade magnesia with a
focus on meeting the
needs of the Indian
steel industry;

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Silicates Precipitated silica Cost competitive Address India’s import

(viz., rubber grade), technology solutions, with dependence of Si-based
aluminosilicates (viz., thrust on efficient utilisation materials
detergent grade Zeolite) of indigenous resources

Silica based tanning

agents

Active pharma ingredients 14 APIs are in advanced At least two solvent At least one product
and key starting material stages of development and free mechanochemical technology on vehicles
translation. synthesis technologies and for nanoformulations
solvent based solid form based on biopolymers,
screening biodegradable carriers,
vesicles and having
target specificity

Performance chemicals Medicinal chemistry, Security printing, smart Self-reliance in relevant

polymer and composites, materials, medicinal areas
dyes and pigments, Smart chemistry, polymers for
coatings, biodegradable clean energy, separations,
polymers in non-leather smart packaging, 3D
footwear printing, diagnostics and
devices in healthcare,
composites for strategic
and clean energy
applications, dyes
and pigments, coating
materials, energy materials,
biological materials,
and upsegment leather,
superhydrophobic-,
antimicrobial-, transparent
conducting-smart coatings

Green Polymers & Pre-treatment technologies Polymer degradation into Scalable processes for
Degradation for delamination, monomers, fuels, gases, production of alternate
delabeling, adhesive and hydrocarbons polymers – based on
dust removal renewable feedstock

Application in non-leather
footwear Relevant application in
the area of non-leather
footwear

Specialty chemicals for Functional chemicals for Reducing carbon footprint Chemical for leather and
leather and textiles lighter weight, heavier through appropriate textiles meeting zero
impact leathers – chemical technologies discharge of hazardous
applications in upholstery chemical norms
and footwear REACH Compliant
chemicals

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Sustainable chemistries Focus on atom economic Create an entity with The target is a 50%
continuous manufacturing, appropriate governance reduction in use of water,
continuous flow synthesis of structure that will enable solvents, and energy.
organic compounds, rapid scale up/ deployment
of at least 30 continuous
Process intensification flow platform technologies
in leather and footwear p.a.
industry for reduced carbon,
energy and water footprint Chemicals that are REACH
compliant.

Circular economy Develop at least 3 Develop 5 specialty/ Reduce by 40%, 2021 as

specialty/ performance performance chemicals baseline, carbon footprint
chemicals from wastes of from wastes of by adoption of circular
manufacturing industries manufacturing industries economy by 2030

Reduce by 20%, 2021 as

baseline, carbon footprint
by adoption of circular
economy by 2025

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 5. Agriculture Nutrition
Biotechnology

VISION STATEMENT
Ensuring sustainable agriculture and nutritional security through biotechnological
research and innovation

FOCUS AREAS
• Agro technologies and improvement »» Biofertilizers and biostimulants
of medicinal and aromatic plants using microbial consortiafor plant
(MAPs) growth promotion
»» Improvement of prioritized »» Capsules/Nano based
medicinal and aromatic plants biostimulant formulations
(MAPs): Ashwagandha, Mentha »» Bio-pesticides
and Ocimum »» Stress ameliorator
»» Improvement of prioritized »» Green molecules as biostimulants
essential oil-bearing aromatic
»» Secondary metabolite(s) enhancer
crops for transforming India from
an importer country to exporter »» Development of MAP-based
country bio-stimulant formulations for
enhanced crop productivity
»» Agro technology development for
• Crop improvement through
Saffron and Heeng
breeding and transgenics
»» Registration/release of CSIR
»» Cotton crop improvement for
varieties of medicinal and
biotic and abiotic stress resistance
aromatic crops
»» Rice crop improvement for
• Biostimulants bacterial blight disease resistant
»» Seaweed extract formulations for and low GI (diabetic-friendly), and
plant growth promotion low grain arsenic
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FOCUS AREAS
»» Cannabis crop improvement for • Nutritional Security
low THC and high CBD, oil, fibre »» Geriatric nutritional products
and proteinaceous seeds
»» Obesity
»» Tomato crop improvement for
specific nutrients and early »» Macronutrient deficiency,
maturity Anaemia

»» Improvement of Fragrance, Flavor, • Value addition

and Floriculture crops »» Valorization of agricultural waste
• Enzymes through biomass-based processes
and products
»» Industrial enzymes:
Carbohydrases and Proteases »» Microalgae for industrial
applications and carbon
»» Technology for cellulase hyper
sequestration
production and secretion, and cost
effective and efficient biomass »» Certified Reference Materials
hydrolyzing enzyme cocktail(s) (CRMs)
production for biorefineries »» Plant proteins and meat analogues
• Farm mechanization and Precision »» Development of traditional
farming knowledge-based foods,
»» Technologies for Farm nutraceuticals and dietary
Mechanization with focus on supplements
small scale, energy efficient and »» Technologies for minimizing pre
cost-effective machineries and post harvesting losses for
»» Technologies for Precision fruits and vegetables
Agriculture »» Quality assurance certification
»» Development of sensors and for raw drugs and materials, and
supporting hardware for IoT- value-added products of medicinal
based agri-informatics and aromatic plants (MAPs)

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Goals
Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Agro Technologies & Improvement of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

Genetic improvement of Genome edited lines Varieties developed Continues for other industry
Ashwagandha for high developed. prioritized MAPs.
withanone, withanamide
and Ocimum for chavicol
and rosamarianic acid
and other valuable
terpenoids and
phenylpropanoids
through breeding
and genome-editing
approaches

Development of climate- Ready for release

resilient medicinal
and aromatic crops
(Ocimum, Ashwagandha
and Mentha) and
improved cultivation
practices.

Development of off Ready for release of Ready for release of off

season, short-duration resource efficient varieties season and short-duration
and resource efficient MAPs
varieties of MAPs

Improved Ocimum Ready for release

variety for terpenoids
and phenylpropanoids or
improved cold tolerance

Ashwagandha variety Ready for release

for improved root quality,
withanolide content or
leaf blight tolerance

Improved flax variety Ready for release

with decreased
cyanogenic glycoside

Improved green tea Ready for release

variety

Improvement of Ready for release of at Ready for release at least 2 Continues for other
prioritised essential oil- least 2 varieties each of varieties each of Patchouli, essential oil bearing crops
bearing aromatic crops Lemongras, Palmarosa, Rosemary, Geranium and
for transforming India Citronella, Lavender and Tagetes
from an importer country Vetiver
to exporter country

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Expansion of area Agrotechnology will be Area expansion for self-

under cultivation of developed reliance will be achieved.
Saffron and Heeng

Registration/release NBPGR registration AICRP and PVV&FRA Continues for all the
of CSIR varieties registration varieties developed/to be
of medicinal and developed.
aromatic crops

Bio-stimulants

Seaweed extract Formulation will be Innovations will be made

formulations for plant ready and biostimulant to improve the products
growth promotion registration process will be and delivery system such
over as phyto-inspired peptides
and small molecule-based
biopesticide formulations

Biofertilizers and Formulation will be ready Biostimulant/biofertilizers Innovations will be made to

biostimulants using registration process will be improve the products and
microbial consortia for over as per the regulations, delivery system
plant growth promotion and commercialized.
and abiotic stress
amelioration

Capsules/Nano based Formulation will be ready Biostimulant/biofertilizers Innovations will be made to

biostimulant formulations registration process will be improve the products and
over as per the regulations, delivery system
and commercialized.

Bio-pesticides Formulation will be ready Biostimulant/biofertilizers Innovations will be made to

registration process will be improve the products and
over as per the regulations, delivery system
and commercialized.

Stress ameliorator Formulation will be ready Biostimulant/biofertilizers Innovations will be made to

registration process will be improve the products and
over as per the regulations, delivery system
and commercialized.

Green molecules Formulation will be Innovations will be made to

ready and biostimulant improve the products and
registration process will be delivery system
over

Secondary metabolite(s) Formulation will be ready Biostimulant/biofertilizers Innovations will be made to

enhancer registration process will be improve the products and
over as per the regulations, delivery system
and commercialized.

Development of Formulation will be Innovations will be made to

MAP-based bio- ready and biostimulant improve the products and
stimulant formulations registration process will be delivery system
for enhanced crop over
productivity

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Crop Improvement through breeding & transgenic

Transgenic high yielding Ready for release

cotton resistant against
Whitefly (Introgression
of Tma12 gene in ICAR
high yielding variety)

Transgenic high yielding Ready for release

cotton resistant against
Whitefly and Helicoverpa
(Staking of Cry1 Ac and
Tma12 genes)

Transgenic high yielding Ready for release

cotton resistant against
Whitefly, Helicoverpa
and pink boll worm
(Staking of Cry1 Ac,
Cry1EC and Tma12
genes)

Improved cotton Ready for release

varieties for drought
tolerance – molecular
assisted breeding

Cotton varieties suitable Ready for release

for HDPS and machine
picking with enhanced
boll weight – molecular
assisted breeding

50K Cotton Chip Ready for

commercialization

Super-improved Samba Ready for release

Mahsuri - Bacterial blight
disease resistant and
low GI (diabetic-friendly)

Rice grain with low Ready for release

Arsenic - Molecular
Breeding

Rice grain with low Ready for release

Arsenic - SDN1/SDN2
Genome editing

Cannabis – low THC Ready for release following Ready for release following
and high CBD varieties conventional breeding/ molecular assisted
– breeding/genome genome editing approaches breeding
editing

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Cannabis – low THC Oil and fibre varieties Oil and fibre varieties Proteinaceous seed
and high fibre, oil and ready for release following ready for release following varieties ready for release
proteinaceous seed conventional breeding molecular assisted following molecular assisted
varieties – breeding/ breeding breeding/genome editing
genome editing

Flavonoid rich tomato Ready for release

– SDN1/SDN2 genome
editing

Fragrance, Flavor, and Ready for release through Fragrance induction in

Floriculture crops– mutation breeding and gladiolus
Mutation breeding and hybridization
hybridization

Enzymes

Carbohydrases Complete import

substitution

Proteases Complete import

substitution

Technology for cellulase Release by Regulatory

hyper production and Bodies and complete
secretion, and cost import substitution
effective and efficient
biomass hydrolyzing
enzyme cocktail(s)
production for
biorefineries

Farm Mechanization

Technologies for farm Prioritized machineries Full commercialization of Continuous upgradation of

mechanization with and equipment are farm implements after due implements maintaining the
focus on small scale, ready. Prototypes for big certification. cost effectiveness.
energy efficient and cost- equipment are ready.
effective machineries
Technologies for The technology should be Field deployment of the Continuous upgradation of
Precision Agriculture ready. system. the system maintaining the
cost effectiveness.

Development The technology should be Field deployment of the Continuous upgradation of

of sensors and ready. system. the system maintaining the
supporting hardware cost effectiveness.
for IoT-based agri-
informatics

Certification system The system should be in

development for place.
farm implements,
machineries and
sensors

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Nutritional Security

Geriatric nutrition Products are ready for Field deployment Improvement of the
regulatory approval formulations

Obesity Products are ready for Field deployment Improvement of the

regulatory approval formulations

Anaemia Products are ready for Field deployment Improvement of the

regulatory approval formulations

Macronutrient deficiency Products are ready for Field deployment Improvement of the
regulatory approval formulations

Value Addition

Valorization of Products and processes • Additional products

agricultural waste as targeted will be ready will be developed e.g.
through biomass-based for commercialization e.g. important diols
processes and products industrial enzymes • Net zero carbon
emission

Freshwater and marine Biocrude processing Improved technology for Continuous improvement of
microalgae for industrial technology to be ready greater cost effectiveness technologies
applications and carbon A few nutraceutical of biofuel production
sequestration products will be ready Many more nutraceutical
products.

Certified Reference At least 500 CRMs are All CRMs required for our
Materials (CRMs) produced and marketed country is produced within
indigenously the country.

Plant proteins and meat Targeted products will be Full-scale

analogues ready and approval from commercialization with
regulatory body will be continuous quality
obtained. improvement.

Development of Targeted products will be Full-scale

traditional knowledge- ready and approval from commercialization with
based foods, regulatory body will be continuous quality
nutraceuticals and obtained. improvement.
dietary supplements

Minimizing pre and post Farm site post harvesting Pre-harvesting losses can Both pre- and post-
harvesting losses for technologies will be be minimized by developing harvesting losses is
fruits and vegetables developed and small appropriate biocontrol controlled for most fruit and
through technology portable machineries will be agents. vegetable crops.
development deployed

Quality assurance Certification process will More MAPs covered.

certification for raw be developed in respect of
drugs and value-added raw drugs, essential oil and
products including those value-added products from
of MAPs MAPs.

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 6. Health Care (HTC)

VISION STATEMENT
Invent, adapt and, deploy the latest bio-innovations, tapping into modern technology
and traditional knowledge to make healthcare in India affordable and accessible,
ensuring physical and mental wellness.

FOCUS AREAS
• Wellness and Disease Biology »» Biosensors: Reliable and robust
»» Cohorts: long-term longitudinal biomarkers that can detect and
studies to identify factors that predict disease, Inter-disciplinary
contribute to the transition from development
health to disease. »» Genomics and big data: Large
»» Precision Health: empower sets of genomic data and health
medicine to achieve a more monitoring wearable devices
optimal, nuanced view towards for big data analysis to alert
therapeutic interventions. the healthcare system towards
»» Modeling human diseases: Animal potential pockets of genetic
models, patient derived inducible susceptibilities or potential
pluripotent cells, organoid and outbreaks of infectious diseases.
inter-organoid models in addition • Technology and Therapeutics
to computational models. »» Drug development: Infrastructure
• Diagnosis and Surveillance and skill base of chemistry
»» CRISPR based diagnostics: optimization, preclinical
accurate, efficient and very studies, clinical trials, IPR,
sensitive CRISPR based commercialization under one
diagnostic assays deployed at roof.
rural and remote sites for testing »» Drug Self-sufficiency: From
for emerging diseases. synthesis and export of APIs, build
»» Wearable devices: easy-to- up in house capability of end-to-
wear wettable sensors that can end drug manufacture to be self-
monitor various parameters reliant and provide affordable
important to wellness and disease drugs to India and other poorer
prediction. nations.

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FOCUS AREAS
»» Vaccines: Latest vaccine development stages. Ensuring
technologies such as mRNA affordable and accessible
vaccines, better and safer solutions based on these new
adjuvants as part of an expanding technologies.
portfolio. »» Biomaterials: New biodegradable
»» Affordable and cutting- scaffolds and biomaterials for
edge therapeutics: RNA transient as well as permanent
based therapeutics (and implants. Robust engineering
vaccines), genome-editing, solutions for developing
organelle transplantations and prosthetics
photothermal therapies are in

Goals

Focus Areas Short Term Goals Mid Term Goals Goals Beyond 2030

Wellness and Disease Cohort Building, iPSCs and Wearable devices for Precision Genomics
Biology organoids wellness monitoring

Diagnosis and Surveillance Rare Disease Diagnostics Big data analytics for Big data analytics for
with Sequencing tools, surveillance surveillance
CRISPR based diagnostics
for genetic diseases

Technology and Biodegradable scaffolds, RNA based therapeutic Drug self-sufficiency

Therapeutics Biosimilars and other drugs strategies, Vaccines and
adjuvants

Frontier Area

Brain Biology Genomics to detect rare Wearable sensors for Traditional remedies
neurological diseases, stroke and seizure for cognitive wellness,
Futuristic technologies for
Location trackers for Drugs delivery into brain, medical imaging
dementia patients AI based diagnostics for
neurological disorders,
Indian gut microbiome and
secretome, Nutraceuticals
and brain foods, Traditional
remedies for cognitive
wellness

Cutting edge research for understanding of the brain, capitalizing on India’s strength of a
large and diverse population.

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 7. Mining, Minerals,
Metals & Materials
(4M)

VISION STATEMENT
Catalyze & optimize sustainable metals and materials production and processing,
their use and reuse for local and global benefits

FOCUS AREAS
• Advanced Materials & Processes »» Valorization of industrial wastes
The sub-domains in this thrust are • Strategic Materials
»» Advanced Ceramics The target areas are
»» Advanced Composites »» Metallic Foams
»» Functional Materials »» Stealth Materials
»» Materials for sensors »» High strength alloys
»» Energy Materials »» Armor materials
• 2D Materials »» Special Composites
»» Graphene and graphene »» Sensors for defense
derivative, • Strategic metals from primary &
»» MXenes and other emerging 2D secondary resources
materials. »» Comprehensive extraction
• Lean and Low-grade resource methodologies and process
processing
• Engineering critical assessment
The target areas are
»» ECA Devices/ protocols, ML
»» Coal Characterization and enabled databases on ECA
Beneficiation
»» Lean ore processing

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Goals
Focus Areas Short Term Goals Medium term goal Goals Beyond 2030

Advanced Materials & Bio-ceramics Powder for Additive Fibre Laser

Processes manufacturing technologies

Self-healing Coatings Super-hydrophobic Fuel cells

coatings
Membrane
technologies
2D Materials Graphene Nano Mxenes 2D devices and
platelets appliances
Strategic Materials Strategic glasses Advanced High Stealth Coatings
Strength steels
Metallic Foams Fiber reinforced
composites
Lean resource Utilization of Non- Dry beneficiation High purity EMM and
processing Coking coal for Coke protocols EMD production
making
Cobalt and Nickel Recovery of values Potash recovery from
recovery from wastes from lean & low-grade indigenous low-grade
and effluents ore resources
Platinum group metal Utilization of
recovery from primary metallurgical plant
& secondary sources waste
Strategic metals from REE extractionsfrom Ca extraction REE extraction from
primary & secondary secondaries primaries
resources
W extraction from Li extraction from LI extraction from
secondaries secondaries primaries
Engineering critical ML enabled databases ECA Devices/ IOT/AI enablement of
assessment on ECA protocols, industrial components

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 8. Civil Infrastructure &
Engineering (CIE)

VISION STATEMENT
To be a forerunner in civil and infrastructural engineering domain by excelling in
research in frontier and cutting-edge areas, developing competitive technologies,
embracing innovative inter-and trans-disciplinary approaches for the growth of
sustainable civil infrastructure, and providing high value-added services to the
industry and society at large

FOCUS AREAS
• Structural Health Monitoring & Low-cost carbon sink construction
Life Extension: Structural Health materials, FRP in structural
Monitoring, Aging Infrastructure engineering applications
& Smart City Infrastructure for
clientele like; Indian Railways,
• Rural Infrastructure: Solar powered
NTPC, NHAI, Construction Industry,
cold storage for agricultural
NHAI, Urban Bodies and State
produces, Post harvesting
Governments
technologies for high humid
environment, Agricultural waste
• Disaster Mitigation: Disaster
to value added products, Cold
resilient infrastructure, Renewable
mix technology for high volume
energy infrastructure, Strategic
roads, Bamboo reinforced concrete
infrastructure, climate action, Special
structures for low cost housing
and multi functional structures for
clientele like; Offshore renewable
energy industries, NIWE and Power • Mobility Infrastructure & Planning:
industries Techniques for road assets
management, Safe road connectivity
• Building Physics & Materials: Next for hilly terrain, Hill road widening
generation construction materials using light weight geofoam blocks,
like 3D printing of cementitious Traffic circulation plan around metro
composite elements, self-healing station & impact quantification,
sustainable concrete, Circular Indian Road (Highway) safety manual
economy in construction materials, and folded textile reinforced panels

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• Automation & Robotics: Focus on high-strength concrete, Polymer/

robotics & automation and Industry nanocomposite using plastic
4.0, Additive manufacturing, next waste, Self-sustainable Integrated
generation digital manufacturing, Municipal Solid Waste Disposal
next generation electric mobility System (IMSWDS) for bulk waste
generator utilization of waste
• Waste to Wealth: Geopolymer materials, industrial solid wastes,
concrete for fast-track and valorization of sludge in
construction, Self-compacting construction.

Goals
Focus Areas Short Term Goals Medium term goal Goals Beyond 2030

Structural Health Monitoring • Methodologies for • Implementation of data • Drone based real-time
& Life Extension real-time structural warehouse on cloud in defect identification in
health monitoring (SHM) order to provide global infrastructural facilities
including corrosion access for SHM using • Cyber-physical systems
monitoring IoT for SHM (IoT, ICT,
• Indigenous sensor • Centre of excellence for Industrial Internet of
development SHM Technology (IIoT)
• Focus on different • Indigenous enabled maintenance
structural parameters for development of vibration scheduling of
analysis of buildings and measurement and infrastructure, Digital
other structures control devices twin)
• Building Information • Standards for SHM
modeling (BIM) towards of civil infrastructure
bringing construction including pavements
sector into the digital
• Development of IoT
based toolbox for
monitoring of structures
and data analysis

Disaster Mitigation • Onshore / offshore • Design of pilot floating • Development of hybrid

renewable energy offshore structures for floating renewable
structures RE farming energy system
• Performance based • AI and ML based risk • Establishment of large-
seismic safety assessment methods scale and full-scale
evaluation methods • Disaster warning testing facilities for
• Retrofitting techniques systems verification of developed
for various infrastructure • New sustainable technologies
• Agro infrastructure (poly materials and • Structural re-engineering
houses, grain storage) prefabricated elements/ to address climate
connections change

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Medium term goal Goals Beyond 2030

Disaster Mitigation • Seismic Safety of • Agrivoltaics for

traditional housing simultaneous solar
• Establishment of power generation and
“Center for Excellence agriculture
in Multi-hazard Risk • Bio-inspired engineering
Reduction” in CSIR of structures
• Offshore structural
engineering including
pipelines, barge
structures, floating and
fixed structures

Building Physics & • Advanced • Computational • Net Positive Energy

Materials Cementitious material modelling Buildings
Composites for 3D with Material-Structure • Self-healing sustainable
printing integrated approach materials
• Development of • Circular economy in • Meta materials
special construction construction materials • Low-cost carbon sink
materials such as • New technologies for construction materials
textile reinforced enhanced productivity (towards carbon
concrete, geopolymer at construction sites capture and utilization)
concrete, cold weather • Net zero energy
concrete admixture, and carbon neutral
multifunctional buildings
materials • Concrete surface
• Data science applied coatings and corrosion
to building engineering inhibitors
• Building information • Design and
modeling in high rise development of
buildings enhanced workspace
series-parallel robot
with macro-mini
approach for 3D
printing of civil concrete
structure
• Development of new
age construction
chemicals

Rural Infrastructure • Cement-free • Curbing air pollution • Cold mix technology

manufacturing of from brick-chimneys for high volume roads
Building Bricks and • Self-Compacting Geo-
Interlock Blocks for Polymer Concrete
Low-Cost Housing • Low cost wall
• Bamboo reinforced plastering machine
concrete structures for • Bamboo in large-scale
low-cost housing construction
• Utilization of agro-
waste in building
products
• Mechanized
scavenging

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Medium term goal Goals Beyond 2030

Mobility Infrastructure & • Slope Stability analysis • National Test • Drone based
Planning for road infrastructure Laboratory of Road Automatic Road
• Technology for faster Signs and Markings Safety Audit System
construction of concrete to conduct various • National Crash Barrier
roads performance related Test Facility
• Drone, Satellite and tests • Hyperloop and
Vehicle (onboard • Country’s maiden Intercity High Speed
sensor) based Road Simulator based Driver Rail feasibility
Condition Monitoring Training and Testing • Feasibility of
Techniques for Road Laboratory to enhance Autonomous Vehicle
Asset Management psychomotor driving Operation for Indian
• TRC fencing panels for skills and support Traffic Conditions
highway authorities in licensing
• Innovative Designs to • Innovative Controlled
utilize various localized Blasting Technique for
Marginal Materials in Tunnel construction
Embankment, Flexible for Metro Systems
and Rigid Pavement to increase speed of
Construction. construction, prevent
slope failures, fatalities
and structural damages
• Intelligent Sensor
based Warning System
to avoid the Vehicle-
Animal Conflicts in
Forrest/ Hilly Areas
• Establishment of
Centre of Excellence
in Artificial Intelligence
/ Machine Learning (AI
/ ML)
• Application of 3-D
Printing Technology for
pavement (bituminous
and concrete)
rehabilitation

Automation & Robotics • Demonstration of • Development and • On demand

miniature Foundry Demonstration of manufacturing in
4.0 (20ft x 20ft Foundry 4.0 in Sand, space and lunar
)& Associated investment and manufacturing with in-
Technologies for low pressure die casting situ resource utilization.
melting temperature sector and its diffusion • Implementation of
alloy i.e. aluminium. to foundry cluster. Advanced Driver
• Multifunctional product • Large scale production Assistance Systems
design and AM process technologies for (ADAS)
design and optimization indigenous materials • Integration of power
on existing systems suitable for Additive electronics with battery
and new processes for Manufacturing and charging functions
materials like ceramics, application in different
glasses areas such as
aerospace, medical

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Focus Areas Short Term Goals Medium term goal Goals Beyond 2030

Automation & Robotics • Developing actuation • Integrated • Sustainable robotic

systems and their computational solutions to cater the
control for physically modelling for new alloy need to the country for
interactive applications design using multiscale strategic, industrial,
• Soft robots for medical modelling societal and other
applications • Development of a domains
• Underwater robotics for digital twin for in-situ • Incorporation of
underwater inspection certification process intelligence to the
of structures, ship hull, • Robots for Advanced robotic systems using
deep sea exploration Industry, mobile health, various AI/ ML for
etc hospital management, human friendliness
• Next generation fully pipeline inspection, and operations
electric machines/ defence, explorations in the unknown
vehicles in remote, inaccessible and unpredictable
• Hybridization of and hazardous areas environments
battery, ultracpacitor • Design and
and fuel cell sources. development of
• To provide solutions Unmanned Arial
to strategic sector in Vehicle for various
the area of Unmanned applications such as
Ground Vehicles both Bridge Inspection,
for outdoor and indoor Disaster management
surveillance and active etc.
interventions • Development of
modular electric power
train components

Waste to Wealth • Development of • Upscaling and pilot • Multi attribute optimizing

Bio Binders from scale manufacturing of processes to develop
various Industrial and developed composites cost effective building
Agricultural Wastes for materials materials using industrial
Road Construction • Utilization of Iron wastes
• Development of a ore tailings in brick • Development of green
process technology manufacturing building materials to avoid
in converting various carbon emission in civil
waste materials in to infrastructure
value-added composite
materials for structural
and non-structural
applications

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ALIGNMENT TO NATIONAL MISSIONS / SCHEMES / SDGs

CSIR as a dynamic, responsive • High levels of Novelty and
organisation, as in the past, Innovativeness
responded quickly to the needs • Global competitive positioning
and priorities of the nation. CSIR in Science & Technology
objectives & goals are aligned to • Potential Private Goods,
the needs and the opportunities of Public Goods, Societal Goods
National Missions/Schemes and & Strategic Goods benefits
Sustainable Development Goals that could be accrued to the
(SDGs). In aligning CSIR goals/targets Socio-economic development
the guiding principles are of the country

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ACCELERATING INNOVATIONS &

ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE
ECONOMIC GROWTH

Start-up Ecosystem – Indian Context

Start-up India is a flagship initiative of the Government of India, intended
to build a strong eco-system for nurturing innovation and Start-ups in the
country that will drive sustainable economic growth and generate large
scale employment opportunities. The start-up emergence in product
manufacturing sector needs support from industries, R&D establishments
technology interventions, to scale-up their new ideas and innovations
to become global companies. Together these Three Pillars viz., Private
Industry, R&D establishments both in Public & Private sector through
innovation and scalable technology, and Start-ups can generate impactful
solutions, and thereby act as vehicles for socio-economic development and
transformation.

”
I see start-ups, technology and innovation as

”
exciting and effective instruments for India’s
transformation.
Shri Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India

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CSIR Framework of Three Pillars for

Start-up Ecosystem
Incubators can play a vital role in ensuring that the [start-ups’]
experiments are conducted in an effective manner by providing the
necessary skills, resources and support systems

Goals For Sustainable Development

CSIR
INDUSTRY START-UP Laboratories
Policy issues, Access to
IC- Office Space & Idea Generation –
lab facilities, Licensing IP
Infrastructure Futuristic technology
opportunity Technical validation
Business Support & of technologies,
Mediation Proof of Concept
prototyping etc.
Funding & Assistance for Product Development
Assistance with
Fund Rising /CSR fund licensing, certifications,
Manufacturing scale-up
Value addition services Commercial Prototype test standards
like accounts, legal, Technical/Expert
Commercial launch
financial audit etc. Consultancy/Mentoring
etc.,

Feedback/Research/Need Assessment

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Way Forward
Transitioning technology oriented product manufacturing start-ups from “concept to
market” is extremely complex and requires a multi stage innovation curation and de-risking
model. Innovators may need support and guidance of the stake-holders of the ecosystem for
establishing product-market fit, pilots and validations, capital access, regulatory pathways
and accelerated market entry. This approach would carry great hopes to make India as an
innovation and manufacturing hub for sustainable economic development leading to large
scale employment generation.

Setting-up Theme specific Innovation/Incubation cum Tech

Parks– Hub & Spoke Model
 8 theme-based Innovation/Incubation cum Tech Parks shall be set-up at the
theme nodal laboratory in PPP mode by creating section-8 company.
 The Innovation cum Tech parks breaks down the traditional, artificial barriers
of innovation through its connectivity and collaborative interaction.
 The theme laboratories to work in a hub and spoke model and collaborate
with Central & State governments, Indian and foreign VCs, angel networks,
banks, other incubators,tech-parks, legal partners, consultants, and academia.

Launch of Grand Innovation Challenge Projects

 Theme specific projects with funding from CSIR for finding ultra-low-cost
solutions to India’s pressing and intractable problems

Entrepreneurship Promotion
 From existing big cities to semi-urban and rural areas to promote Rural
Entrepreneurship
 Talent utilization: Simplification of policy & handholding of CSIR scientists
to become entrepreneurs with their innovations to contribute to economic
growth
 Special incentives for CSIR Women Scientist Entrepreneurship

Incubation Centre for Skill Development

 Start-up Enabling Platform for today’s youth who want to gain meaningful
opportunities in their career and start-up space. Theme/Industry specific
comprehensive programs in collaboration with Central/State Skill
Development Councils to create skilled personals and India’s NextGen
Entrepreneurs!

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Implementation Plan OvervieW

Stage 1
Setting-up 8 theme specific Incubator
In Association/collaboration with
industry partnership
Spoke & Hub Collaboration within
Specific Themes
Stage 2
Grand Launch of 8 ICs at
CSIR Level
Access to mission aligned
investors and entrepreneurs
Access to technology
developments and ecosystem

Stage 3
Accelerator Program
Curated problem statements
and pilot funding
Technology transfer and
venture scale up

Stage 4
Venture Acceleration
Program (Corporate /
PSU)
Market access accelerator
for late-stage startups
Equity funding / joint go to
market support Stage 5
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Program
Achieving translational multi
sector impact
Open to academia, research and
development organizations

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STRATEGY
• Involvement of industries from the beginning
CSIR, with its long history of collaborating with the industry, realizes the
value of early partnerships. Connections with industry must be forged from
the beginning of projects to allows a constant monitoring of relevance and
impact.

• Movement of staff from CSIR to Industries and vice versa

A constant bi-directional flux of human resource between CSIR and Industry
at all levels, from skilled lab personnel to top leadership that energizes both
scientific and industrial R&D and creates an environment of mutual growth.
CSIR will facilitate and incentivize such a flux and allow the best practices of
both work environments to be adopted.

• Collaboration
Synergistic collaborations that strengthen the CSIR system through inter-
lab collaborations, will promote borderless, interdisciplinary research. CSIR
will create opportunities and ambience that encourages and rewards inter-
laboratory interactions. CSIR will actively pursue tie-up with academia on the
one hand and industry on the other, providing an intellectually rich ambience
for young innovators in start-ups and young scientists in R&D.

• Co-location of CSIR labs in industries

CSIR will set-up focused technology development units within the premises
of industrial plants and factories, to facilitate the rapid development of
technologies demonstrated in the lab, by the industry. Government funded
scientists and projects will be embedded in industries to create an ecosystem
of market awareness and industry relevant research in CSIR

• Monitoring by LSG
Lab Strategy Group to guide laboratories on taking-up grand challenges
project, frontier research areas, industry driven projects and formulate
strategy for implementation within and across CSIR labs

• Change Management
An organization that is ready to adapt to changing situations is an organization
that maximises its chances of success in a dynamic world. CSIR will create
institutional strategies to embrace and manage change effectively through
policies that encourage and reward individuals and teams that engage in
continuous learning and re-learning.

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• Working for cutting-edge technologies, R&D

CSIR will promote fundamental research in frontier areas of science and
technology to create a talent pool of globally competitive scientific leaders
who contribute to the growth of knowledge. In the technology driven and
technology dependent future, the ability to adopt and build on this knowledge
through cutting edge technologies, is a national need. CSIR, with its clear focus
on leading technologies, can enable its collaborators by becoming the local
hub, often working with state governments, to tap into, for advice, experience,
training and skilling of workforce.

• Connect with Stakeholders

CSIR, through science and technology exhibitions, industry meets and
conventions, keeps a deep and dynamic connection with stakeholders spanning
start-ups, SMEs, ministries, academia and NGOs. These opportunities for
liaisons will be strengthened in quality and frequency.

• Whole of Government
CSIR will align its programmes to meet the expectations and objectives of
the national mission, national schemes of the various Ministries like Regional
Transport Aircraft for the UDAN scheme, Clean water technologies for Jal
Jeevan Mission, Medicinal plants for National Aayush Mission, Lean resource
processing for National Mission for Waste to Wealth, Mobility infrastructure
for smart cities. The holistic approach of CSIR labs and interdisciplinary
expertise would helpto provide impetus to Government Missions/Schemes.

• Policy Impetus
National policy that safeguards the interests of our people has to be based on
science and technology. CSIR aims to be the governments’ reliable partner in
providing scientifically correct and accurate information that enables strong
policy decisions.

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CAPACITY BUILDING
The self-reliant India campaign, is the vision of new India, envisaged by the
Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and is based on five pillars; Economy,
Infrastructure, System, Vibrant Demography and Demand. Contributing to this
vision, CSIR promotes ground-breaking solutions that aim to foster incubation
centres, start-ups, renewable energy options, creating wealth from waste and
a number of such options. This is done by continuously working on Capacity
building of its human resource by developing and improving skills, mindsets and
processes required to address the growing needs of the country. The human
resource capacity building aims to develop world class, outstanding and inclusive
research manpower through research fellowships, grants and awards, such that
they can catalyse India to be a global power of innovation.
Along with capacity building of its human resource, CSIR strives to improve
capacity building of its infrastructure to support new skill sets and stand tall in
a globally competitive world. CSIR addresses “Change Management” with its
efforts on improving capacity building on a regular basis.

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OUTREACH INITIATIVES
Outreach programs are aimed to uplift, and support those who are in need of
certain services and rights. It is really imperative for CSIR to leverage its network
with society, industries, academia, socio-economic ministries and NGOs
Over the years, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has
contributed substantially by developing several technologies for societal and
industrial development of our country. The S&T interventions made by CSIR
could considerably impact society, benefitting common man in several fields like
housing, agri-income enhancements, safe drinking water, food, environment, etc.
CSIR successfully addressed the problems related to poverty, inequality, access to
health, education and housing, significantly benefitting rural population especially
those at the base of economic pyramid. CSIR, through its several mission-driven
high-impact programmes have considerably enhanced the income of farmers.
Aroma mission alone has benefitted more than 20,000 farming families, enhancing
their incomes by at least Rs. 50,000-60,000/ha annually. This programme has
become a source of about 1000 tones of essential oils worth Rs. 10 crores for
our Aroma industry. Similarly, sea weed cultivation, making incense sticks from
offered flowers has provided substantial benefits to several self-help women
groups. It is estimated that the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant-based technologies
of CSIR can generate rural employment of about 600 lakhs man-days every year.
For an effective reach out of S&T interventions to a common man, CSIR would be
integrating itself with government policies and interface effectively with socio-
economic ministries responsible to deliver social goods and services.
CSIR, will be identifying the need of technological interventions and the
laboratories who can provide appropriate solutions and pro-actively approach
National Flagship Programmes like Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, PoshanAbhiyaan,
Jal Shakti Abhiyaan, Prime Minister Matsya Sampada Scheme, Pradhan Mantri
Awaas Yojna, National livelihood Mission etc. as a technology partner to work
in a Mission Mode to address those identified technology needs. Also PhD
scholars, as a part of their curriculum, may once in a year go to industry cluster/
MSME sectors, National Flagship Mission etc. to identify unmet technology
needs. For an effective dissemination as well as deployment of technologies,
the possibility of collaboration with corporate NGOs to support technology
solutions to address ground-level issues in diverse fields will be explored. CSIR
laboratories will hand-hold small and rural entrepreneurs including CSIR scholars
and project staff wishing to become tech-entrepreneurs by deploying CSIR
technologies/expertise. CSIR will engage itself with banking sectors through
banks like NABARD or State Finance Corporations by assisting them with
model DPRs forinclusion of CSIR supported social sector entrepreneur into their
portfolio of bankable projects.

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For an effective reach out of S&T interventions to common man, CSIR would
be integrating itself with government policies and interface effectively with
socio-economic ministries responsible to deliver social goods and services. CSIR
initiated a programme for school going children named Jigyasa which aims to
develop the culture of inquisitiveness for motivating them to choose science as
their career. CSIR as part of its scientific social responsibility, is instilling scientific
curiosity among school children by exposing them to science through this flagship
Jigyasa program and Virtual Lab platform. It aspires to expand science outreach
in regional languages on one hand and to connect them to global science on the
other hand such that they rise to be champions of Atmanirbhar Bharat.

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ROADMAP

• Promote young leadership: Identify young leaders and fast track their
ideas in parallel tracks for knowledge generation or technological
innovation
• Tap CSR funds: building self-reliance in research funding while
improving ties with the industry
• Set up porous borders between Industry, Academia and CSIR: Set
up processes that facilitate movement of scientists between these
three pillars of the knowledge economy.
• Research-Industry Conclaves: Frequent conclaves of research and
industry with a focus on problems and challenges, pan-CSIR science
meets to promote inter-institute collaborations
• Build an organization that is ready to embrace change: Embedding
continuous learning in the evaluation system for individuals and
teams
• Transform Scientists to leaders: Lectures by IIM faculty for scientists
to learn the industry eco-system.
• Leverage maximum impact from technological innovations: Involve
domain experts in licensing negotiations
• Build Techno-parks and incubators in each CSIR institute to nurture
and cross ideas over from research to start-ups.
• A lean and focused CSIR: pan-CSIR challenges on focused problems
where the best minds may work in close collaborations.
• Sustainability and inclusivity: A strong thrust to technologies that
use circular economy and sustainable solutions.
• Bouquet of technological solutions that collectively have a large
footprint on making lives easier

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ANNEXURES
The following eight Thematic Vision Documents form the basis of CSIR
Vision 2030.

1. Aerospace, Electronics, Instrumentation & Strategic Sector

2. Ecology, Environment, Earth and Ocean Sciences

3. Energy (conventional and non-conventional) and Energy Devices

4. Chemicals and Petrochemicals

5. Agriculture, Nutrition and Biotechnology

6. Health Care

7. Mining, Minerals, Metals and Materials

8. Civil Infrastructure and Engineering

The above documents can be downloaded from the following link

www.csir.res.in

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