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Technology (CICET) at Vatva or Surat. Describing
Gujarat as a hub of the chemical industry, Mandiya
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presence of chemical industries. “Gujarat will get the
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or Surat. It will be built on the lines of Central Institute
of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET). The aim
is to facilitate the chemical industry with research
and innovations,” the minister said. Mandaviya was
in Ahmedabad on Sunday to inaugurate a boys and a
girls hostel at Central Institute of Plastic Engineering
Director, IIT Delhi and Prof K VijayRaghavan, Principal and Technology (CIPET). The hostel can accommodate
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the DESMI Center for Excellence (CoE) is the removal of the rising pollution caused by plastic, Mandaviya said
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from the mixed waste feedstock collected. IIT Delhi and systematic segregation and recycling of plastic waste.
DESMI also proposed to work together to adapt, modify He also said that a CIPET training institute will be set
and create new mechanical tools to clean water bodies;
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the tribal students. A skill development centre will
need of the hour and agreed to. It was proposed that
partners will explore setting up a professionally-run also start functioning from this October in Bhavnagar,
he added. Besides, CIPET will start a diploma course
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urgently need to clean our waterways which feed into our
rivers and oceans. Simultaneously, we need to change our
attitudes so that we own our commons and not orphan
them,” said Raghavan.The idea, said the IIT-Delhi director,
is to use the waste that is being generated out of the big
cities and see how that can be converted into wealth.The
CoE will provide support for implementing a framework
of pilot projects, which address waste collection and
management in general; including liquid waste and
solid municipal waste management with possible energy
generation and or recovery of material for useful purposes. in Sanand very soon, he said. Quoting Prime Minister
The waste to wealth mission project has been approved Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech, the minister
under the recently constituted Prime Minister’s Science said, “The Prime Minister has expressed concern over
Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC), the use of single-use plastic. I urge people on behalf
which is an overarching body for assessment, creation of PM to join the movement to collect littered plastic
DQG LPSOHPHQWDWLRQ RI PDMRU VFLHQWLÀF WHFKQRORJ\ DQG waste on October 2.”
innovation interventions for India.

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