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Tamil Nadu prepares to be the Indian nanotechnology hub (Statesman of India, 6/14/07) |
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June 13, 2007 |
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CHENNAI: If the next hot technology race is pointing towards
nanotechnology or molecular science in the scale of one billionth of a metre,
Tamil Nadu hopes to bid for a place. State officials of the planning commission
are currently mulling fledgling steps to steer the state towards a
nanotechnology policy with a thrust upon developing products for medical use.
Officials at a meeting last week at the office of the State
Planning Commission hinted at plans to work on a Rs 100 crore project in health
care with technical transfer from the University of Arkansas.
“There is a huge opportunity for the use of nanotechnology in health care. It
is larger than IT or even bio-technology. We can see that we can bring down the
product cost of devices for medical purposes drastically by building devices
through this technology,” Mr Sivathanu Pillai, chief controller, Research and
Development, DRDO, who spoke at the meeting last Friday said. What is making
the technology more attractive is also the annual growth rate of this sector
which is believed to be in the range of 50 per cent. The growth rate of both IT
and bio-technology sectors stand at 30 per cent a year.
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Last Updated ( June 18, 2007 )
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