Rural Development:
Ensuring Inclusive Growth
A high rate Biomethanation plant for poultry was designed, installed commissioned
based on self mixing of digester slurry with biogas. Main advantages of this
plant are reduction of hydraulic residence time from 35 days (conventional
digesters) to 20 days and increase of methane yield by three fold for a given
quantity of poultry litter.
Rural development is a vital mission for CSIR. In the pursuit of strengthening the
nation from the grass-root level, CSIR has undertaken several R&D programmes on
water purification techniques, aromatic plant cultivation and processing, building
materials and traditional ceramic products utilizing locale-specific endowments.
Significant Developments
Sonalika provides the new tractor design for India's changing farm needs
Value addition through post-harvest technologies like essential oil/
menthol production
Cheapest water purification technology including teracotta purification
Sonalika
disc, portable arsenic detection kit, ultrapore membrane-based purifiers
for removing virus and bacteria
Over 365 technologies passed on to the rural masses through
publications, training sessions, etc
Construction of around 30,000 dwelling units using cost-effective
construction technologies
Reverse osmosis plants for desalination in Andaman & Nicobar Islands,
Gujarat, Rajasthan and Tamilnadu
New cultivation techniques and high-yielding varieties
Technological upgradation of the skills of rural artisans and entrepreneurs
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Sericulture in North-East Region
Silk worm cocoons
Establishment of gardens of Som
(Persea bombycina) and Soalu plants
(Litsaea polyantha) that are food plants
for Muga silkworms
Implementation of package practices
for better cocoon crop yield
Organizing farmer meets, workshops
for progressive farmers, etc., in
NE states of India
Training programmes for farmers in
sericulture
Model defluoridation plant at Mylaram
village of Nalgonda District
Thrust Areas
Facilitate knowledge access to remote
areas through question banks, help books
etc, to enable the people to contribute
to national development
Initiatives to access, source, supply and
store safe drinking water
Food processing and preservation
Health
Low-cost housing
Non-farm industrial products
India Mark II Pump
The Government of India was looking for a
simple pump that would work even in
electricity-less villages. It had to be simple,
easy-to-operate and maintain.
CSIR provided the solution with the 'India
Mark II Pump'. Made of non-corrosive, nonmetallic parts, the low-cost pump has
become an inseparable part of rural India.
An estimated 30 lakh pumps are helping
quench the thirst of Indians and several other
Defluoridation plants at Allapur, Nerimetta,
Rachakonda & Gaggalapally
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