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A ten days long workshop, hands-on training in the areas of Industrial Biotechnology, Medical Microbiology, and Natural Products Chemistry was today commenced at CSIR-IIIM, Jammu.The workshop was organised under the aegis of CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu.The workshop started today and will culminate on 25th July 2024.During the workshop 160 students from 03 colleges of Jammu & Udhampur districts are participating.

Dr. Zabeer Ahmed, Director, CSIR-IIIM, (Chairman, BioNEST Bioincubation Centre) in his presidential address, welcomed students at CSIR-IIIM on World Youth Skills Day and highlighted the importance, and the need of such Karyashala (workshop) in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir.He said that CSIR-IIIM is constantly working for the promotion of skill development and entrepreneurship ecosystem in this region.Further, he emphasized that the aim of the workshop is to inculcate scientific temperament among the budding students and this workshop is specifically designed for the students with an immersive experience of hands on trainings and provide them an exposure in scientific and technological interventions in chemistry, biotechnology and allied sciences, in the line of NEP-2020.

Earlier, Dr. Saurabh Saran, Principal Scientist & Principal Investigator, IIIM-TBI, gave an overview of the workshop organized and informed the audience about the initiatives taken by the IIIM incubator to support the skill development and startup ecosystem in J&K.He further encouraged participants to take maximum benefit of 10 days workshop at CSIR-IIIM, Jammu and emphasized on the importance of the workshop by providing an overview of Yuva Kaushal Karyashala.The program included a technical session where domain experts, Dr. Love Sharma, Scientist, delivered a talk on CSIR-IIIM, Dr Ravi Shankar, Sr. Principal Scientist, gave detailed presentation on Research Methodology.Ankush Varma, Coordinator/ CEO, IIIM-TBI delivered a talk on Entrepreneurship, Startup Ecosystem, and Hackathon 4.0.

Among others who were present included Dr. Asha Chaubey, Sr. Principal Scientist, Head, FMB Division, Dr. Sumit G Gandhi, Sr. Principal Scientist, Head, Infectious Diseases, Dr. Deepika Singh, Pr. Scientist & Head, QMI, Dr. P.P. Singh, Principal Scientist and Dr. Bhawal Ali Shah, Principal Scientist, Natural Product Chemistry.The proceeding of inauguration session was conducted by Dr. Saurabh Saran, Principal Scientist, while Ankush Varma, Coordinator, TBI presented the formal vote of thanks.During the sessions, students and their faculty listened the lectures enthusiastically.