Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


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KSCST : Overview

Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) was established in the year 1975. It is one of the first State S&T Councils to be set up in the country. KSCST is an autonomous S&T organization under Department of Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka.

During the last three and half decades of its existence, KSCST has been pro-actively engaging itself to identify locale specific needs / problems in the broad areas of Agriculture, Water, Education, Energy, Ecology and Environment, Habitat, Health, Solid and Electronic waste and Infrastructure. In co-operation with the Indian Institute of Science and several other premier R&D institutions in the state, KSCST executes many projects and programmes, leading to find S&T based solutions such as providing access to energy for cooking and lighting, making available potable and safe drinking water, alternate building technologies, which prevail as the issues of highest priority even to this day thereby improving quality of life of people. Over the years, a number of technologies have been translated, from research and demonstration phase, to the implementation and operational phase. KSCST has also been providing necessary support to the Central and State Governments for the formulation S&T based policies and its wider acceptance by carrying out activities, like scientific survey, project implementation, co-ordination & monitoring, organization of scientific meets and awareness campaigns. The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India advocated KSCST as a model to all the states.

Vision :

Application of Science & Technology for the management of resources, improvement of environment, quality of life and socio-economic conditions of the people of Karnataka.

Mission:

Co-ordinate R & D activities for generation of knowledge for scientifically based interventions, development and popularization of appropriate technologies for adaptation by the civil society to overcome local-specific problems and, inspire and improve human resources of the S&T sectors in the state.