Overview
- Union Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated four new facilities at CSIR‑IICT in Hyderabad on Tuesday and laid the foundation stone for a 200‑student hostel pegged at about Rs 44.5 crore.
- The centrepiece is a decentralised, nature‑based effluent treatment plant developed with DST support that CSIR‑IICT says is operational and designed to serve roughly 6,700 residents of Siripuram by improving sanitation and reducing textile dye pollution.
- An Advanced R&D centre for fluorochemicals was opened to bolster India’s capacity for specialty fluorinated compounds, support indigenous process development, and cut reliance on imports.
- The Continuous Processing Technologies platform and the Sustainable Engineering Complex provide pilot‑scale continuous‑flow manufacturing and integrated process validation aimed at safer, cleaner scale‑up for pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals.
- Singh urged CSIR labs to expand public outreach and partner with industry and MSMEs so the new infrastructure can be translated into commercial technologies and replicated across textile and artisan clusters.