800 Million

1. Low-cost Housing Empowering Masses Value-added agriculture CSIR-800 Instant House for Disaster Victims CSIR-India Potable Water Novel varieties Of Ashwagandha Prosperity for All Ferrocement Water tanks | Electrochemical Defluxidation | Technology for Safe Drinking Water Inclusive growth and improvement in quality of life of the 800 million people at the bottom of the pyramid through S&T intervention relevant to their socio-economic development 50 Million Membrane based water purification systems Novel varieties of Medicinal and aromatic Plants Affordable Health HimHaldi High Altitude Haldi with higher medicinal value 250 Million Low cost Drugs | Low-cost Diagnostics | Collagen based Biomaterials for Wound Healing Value Added Agriculture | Waste-to-Wealth | Sustainable Energy | Affordable Health | Potable Water | Low-cost Housing Open Source Drug Discovery For Tuberculosis 800 Million KrishiShakti CSIR’s Rs.1 Lakh Tractor Sustainable Energy “Just as some of the experiments in your laboratories go on for all the twenty four hours, let a big corner in your heart remain perpetually warm for the benefit of the poor millions” -Mahatma Gandhi Herbal extract for treatment of Prostate Cancer Fuel Cells | Wind and Solar Power | Biomass based Stoves Low-cost Technology for Farmers Solekshaw Solar Power Assisted Pedicab

2. CSIR-800 Mission: Increase per-capita income of the target group by Rs 15 per day through S&T Intervention CSR or Philanthropic Fund Bank Funds Prosperity for All • Action Plan • Implementation • Large scale transfer of proven technologies for production of goods and services • Future Implementation • Focused development of various technologies and services by CSIR • Each technology should be scalable impacting a million lives and beyond • Learning from the scale-up process will be critically analyzed and imbibed to enhance user acceptability and cost-effectiveness • Screened technology will be dovetailed into major national programmes/missions • A set of objective criteria will be developed to judge the success of CSIR-800 initiatives Development of Skills & Knowledge Entrepreneurs Enhancement of earning or Increase in purchasing power Enabling the target group to afford life-style bettering products/services Enterprises NGOs Employment/Income Generation 50 Million Products and Services The Increased demand will fuel resurgence in production Potable water, Low-cost Sanitary napkins, Low-cost Diagnostics, and Neutraceuticals Enhanced Educational expenditure, Solar Energy, ICT for Education are domains where increased investment is expected. 250 Million Increase earning by Rs 15/day (Rs 5000/annum) leading to expenditure in: Education Rs 1000 pa Healthcare Rs 1000 pa Augment Lifestyle Rs 3000 pa • The CSIR-800 Model • Proposes product based and service oriented / solution based employment / entrepreneurship generation through S&T intervention • Transferring technology to entrepreneurs for large scale and /small scale production of goods and services for the 800 Million. • CSIR will target 1% of the target group at proof of concept level and NGOs will scale-up to 10%. • Aims to encourage technology diffusion in partnership mode with Universities/Institutes located in small towns and rural areas • Seeks to transfer technology to, or procurement by respective programmes/missions and/or ministerial departments for propagation and implementation • Envisages implementation of 10-100 projects; each with a minimum customer base of one million people • Involves financing mechanism that use funding schemes of respective ministries, bank loans and philanthropic/CSR funds • Extensive involvement of State Governments and State S&T Councils • Establishment of CSIR-State DST Centre for Dissemination of Technology. 800 Million Underprivileged Self-sustaining, mutually complementary cycle of demand and supply, supporting strong entrepreneurial groups to benefit the 800 million. For more Information on CSIR-800 Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, AnusanshanBhavan, 2 RafiMarg, New Delhi 110001 www.csir.res.in dgcsir@csir.res.in