On Thursday, National Technology Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi started scientific projects worth more than 5800 crore to the nation and lay the foundation for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO-India).
“The National Technology Day is a big day for our country. We salute and commend the scientists of this country who have dedicated their life and work for the scientific advancements of India. Over the last nine years, we have laid a strong foundation so that India can move forward and make notable advancements in the field of technology,” PM Modi said in his address.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a former prime minister, established National Technology Day in 1999 to recognise the scientists, engineers, and technologists who contributed to India’s growth in science and technology and made the Pokhran tests in May 1998 a success.
Since that time, May 11 has been National Technology Day.
In addition, PM Modi formally opened the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Jatni, Odisha, the Platinum Jubilee Block of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, and LIGO-India in Hingoli.
One of the few laser interferometer gravitational wave observatories in the world, LIGO-India is being built in Hingoli, Maharashtra. It has an extremely sensitive interferometer with a 4 km arm length that can detect gravitational waves produced during the merger of massive astrophysical objects like black holes and neutron stars.
With one of these observatories located in Livingston, Louisiana, and the other in Hanford, Washington, the LIGO-India will operate in synchronisation with both of these American observatories.
Additionally, he gave the nation a dedication speech at the Vishakhapatnam Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant.
With the construction of the facility, India will join a select group of countries capable of producing rare earth permanent magnets.
It was created on the Bhabha Atomic Research Center’s campus in Visakhapatnam.
The plant was built on indigenous rare earth materials that were obtained from indigenous resources and based on indigenous technologies.
In addition, PM Modi inaugurated the opening of the National Hadron Beam Therapy Facility at the Tata Memorial Centre in Navi Mumbai. This cutting-edge facility aims to deliver radiation to the cancer with the least possible exposure to the nearby healthy structures.
The early and delayed adverse effects of radiation therapy are decreased by the precise dosage administration to the target tissue.
Another facility that was dedicated to the nation on Thursday was the Fission Molybdenum-99 Production Facility, which is situated on the Trombay Campus of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
Technetium-99m, which is employed in more than 85% of imaging procedures for the early identification of diseases including cancer and heart disease, is derived from molybdenum-99.
The facility is anticipated to make it possible for 9–10 lakh patient scans annually.
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