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`Technology vital to make nation strong, powerful'

Staff Reporter

`Self-reliance is the key to achieve future goals'

A PEP TALK: A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Controller, Research and Development, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, delivering a lecture at P.S.N.A. College of Engineering and Technology in Dindigul on Saturday.

DINDIGUL: Development of high technologies is essential to make our nation strong and powerful and for its economic property.

Self-reliance in this regard is the key to achieve future goals, said A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Controller, Research & Development, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi.

Delivering a special lecture on emerging missile technology at P.S.N.A. College of Engineering and Technology on Saturday, he said technology transformation had been taking place all over the world.

Bio and nano were emerging technologies. Nano medicine, nano diagnostics, DNA repair, genetic modifier, nano robots, nano injections and artery cleaner were emerging technologies in health care to extend the life span of the people, he said.

Bio, nano and info combined technologies with space technology would bring about a technology revolution in health care in the country, he said.

Spin off from missile technology had made a tremendous impact in many critical areas of health care.

Multi-walled carbon nano tubes would be going into device fabrication of bio and nano-based sensors for a variety of applications from microsyringe to implantable medication delivery systems, Dr. Pillai said.

He said strategic technology of missile re-entry was successfully harnessed, creating lightweight and cost-effective composite callipers for polio-affected children.

Now, 7,250 children had been using these callipers, he said.

While Edusat helped link all villages, Cartosat-I was providing land and resource maps in three dimensions.

On missile development, hypersonic super missile was under research.

Unmanned combat air vehicle, robot soldiers and other advanced weaponry systems were some of the future visions.

Research organisations should partner with academies, which were incubators of technologies, he said.

`More processing industries needed'

Later interacting with engineering students, he said India needed more processing industries to process agri-produce and for exports.

Tapping solar energy was important to meet the country's total requirements of 20,000 MW in 2020. Innovation, creativity and perseverance were the three basic qualities to become a scientist.

With no vision, one could not achieve and would perish. One had to identify his or her strength and core competitive capabilities.

Innovative capabilities should be embedded in your thinking, he said.

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