Mysuru:  It is not only Science and Technology but the advances in Food Technology and the availability of ready-to-eat food pioneered by the food research institutes like CFTRI (Central Food Technological Research Institute) and DFRL (Defence Food Research Laboratory) in the city that will open eyes for the young minds to look at various options, said Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar.

He was speaking while participating in the two-day JIGYASSA-2019, a Scientist-Student Connect programme initiated between CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)  the parent body of CSIR-CFTRI and Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan (KVS) to extend students with classroom learning along with well-planned research laboratory learning, at the CFTRI premises here recently.

Sankar said that there are plenty of career opportunities in the field of food technology and it is the right time to explore such ideas by learning from the scientists at the Institute.

There are several challenges in R&D (Research and Development) and to see the food processing units in the institute and learn from them is a great opportunity for the students and hence this two-day programme is a very good one, he said.

CFTRI Director Dr. K.S.M.S. Raghava Rao told the students that the attitude to Science is very important and whatever one learns must be shared with another as this goes a long way in building a Nation.

The CSIR launched JIGYASA with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ministry of Science and Technology, Earth Science, Forests, Environment, Climate Change and Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2017. Nearly 80 PUC students and eight teachers of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya from Mysuru, Mandya, Hassan and Chamarajanagar districts participated in the two-day event which included exhibition, popular science, lectures, science quiz, laboratory experience and demonstration of various food processing technologies.