Chapter 7
1. The BSIR also had the mandate to plan beyond war-related researches and sponsor schemes within the available resources for industrial research for existing institutions with a broader and longer-term perspective. There was a realization that decisions regarding industrial research had been delayed for too long. This delay was costing the government quite heavily during the period of the war. The institutional framework for industrial research should not wait any longer.
2. On the recommendations of the director of the Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, on 9 July 1940 the Government of India constituted the Fuel Research Committee with the late Dr H.K. Sen, the then director of Industries, Bihar, and later Sir Cyril S. ...
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