This follows the approval granted by the Project Approval and Advisory Committee (PAAC) in its meeting held on 24 October under the co-chairmanship of Piyush Goyal, Secretary, Ministry of Mines, and Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology.
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The Centre has recognised two more institutes, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and the Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Hyderabad, in addition to the seven institutes recognised earlier, as Centres of Excellence (CoE) under the National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM).
This follows the approval granted by the Project Approval and Advisory Committee (PAAC) in its meeting held on 24 October under the co-chairmanship of Piyush Goyal, Secretary, Ministry of Mines, and Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology.
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”Critical raw materials form the crucial supply chain for emerging sectors of clean energy and mobility transition, in addition to advanced technology and strategic sectors like electronics, defence, space, etc. To develop, demonstrate, and deploy technologies in an end-to-end systems approach, it is essential to conduct R&D to reach higher Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), specifically TRL 7/8, for pilot plant and pre-commercial demonstration.
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“The CoEs will undertake innovative and transformational research to strengthen and advance the nation’s science and technology capability in the area of critical minerals,” the Ministry of Mines said on Saturday.
Each CoE will operate as a consortium, on a Hub & Spoke model, to leverage R&D in critical minerals and pool the core competence of each constituent under one umbrella.
The CoE (Hub Institute) is mandated, as per the CoE guidelines, to bring in at least two industry partners and at least two R&D/ academic partners in the consortium. The 9 recognised CoEs have together brought in around 90 industry and academic/ R&D spokes.
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