CSIR and BHEL Join Hands for Commercialization of Indigenous Technologies

Soon Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) would start commercialization of various indigenous technologies developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

CSIR and BHEL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate, collaborate and pursue industrial application-oriented research programs and its commercialization on large scale.

The first joint project to be taken up under this collaboration shall be for commercialization by BHEL of various water purification/sewage disposal related technologies developed by CSIR.

Thus, indigenously developed technologies by CSIR shall be commercialized & implemented jointly by BHEL & CSIR in the country. This effort has been made under the “Make in India” initiative. The MoU will remain in force for five years’ duration.

The MoU was signed by Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, Secretary, Department for Scientific and Industrial Research and Director General, CSIR and Dr. Nalin Shinghal, Chairman and Managing Director, BHEL.

CSIR is amongst the foremost scientific and industrial research organization of the world while BHEL is one of India’s largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in executing large Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) contracts and commercializing the developed technologies for sustainable business solutions in the field of energy, industry, transmission, transportation renewables, defense & aerospace, oil & gas, water, energy storage, and e-mobility.

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