Foundation stone laid at BDL for Environmental Testing Facility
The Hindu
‘This will be a state-of-the-art facility in the country’
Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command, on Friday laid the foundation stone for establishing Environmental Testing Facility at the Visakhapatnam unit of Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL). Speaking on the occasion, Commodore (Retd) Siddharth Mishra, CMD, BDL, stated, “The facility will be first of its kind in the country and will contribute towards the further realisation of ‘Atmanirbharta’ in the Defence sector. The facility, once operational, will enhance BDL’s capability in the testing infrastructure for torpedoes and underwater weapons.”A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.