CFTRI ‘Open Day’ attracts students
The Hindu
The two-day Open Day, allowing the public, students, and entrepreneurs to glimpse the research prowess of CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), received overwhelming response with students thronging the sprawling campus on Thursday.
The two-day Open Day, allowing the public, students, and entrepreneurs to glimpse the research prowess of CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), received overwhelming response with students thronging the sprawling campus on Thursday.
Students from various schools and colleges made a beeline to the institute which opens its doors every year to visitors to introduce technologies and explain the research activities. Visitors were allowed from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Open Day concludes on Friday at 4 p.m. The Open Day this year is organised as part of the ‘One Week One Lab’ campaign.
Visitors are allowed from the gate in front of Akashwani on KRS Road.
There were demonstrations of technologies like the hand-operated jowar roti-making machine besides chapati and dosa-making machines. Another attraction was the mobile millet processing unit. Demonstrations on checking adulteration of milk and honey were conducted.
While residents are worried over deaths due to diarrhoea in Vijayawada, officials still grapple to find the root cause. Contaminated drinking water supplied by VMC officials is the reason, insist people in the affected areas, but officials insist that efforts are on to identify the disease and that those with symptoms other than diarrhoea too are visiting the health camps.