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Announcements
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Our mandate
Mandate
Metrology
- To develop measurement and calibration standards that are internationally accepted and are among the best in the world.
- To offer metrology services to the industry and to the problems of national interest including for legal metrology.
- To develop reference standard materials, Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND).
Research
- To conduct multidisciplinary R&D to develop the measurement standards for evergreen and futuristic technologies like solar cells, bio-medical, and quantum information processing.
- To develop sophisticated analytical equipment under the Government of India’s Make in India initiative.
Skill development
To train a large pool of young scientists and industry personnel under the Skill India Initiative.
News
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