January 4, 2022, 10:34 am By Sharon Tracy Gomes Public Archive General
“The importance of Oceans is gaining prominence every year for economic and strategic value.” were the words by His Excellency, Shri P.S.Sreedharan Pillai, Governor of Goa, in his message to the Staff members and public at large during the CSIR-NIO Foundation Day celebrated on Saturday, 1st January 2022 in online mode.
His Excellency further mentioned that “Oceans is a treasure house of resources and with the increasing constrain on land the focus of research is growing on the Ocean Front.” The Hon’ble governor congratulated the institute for having state of the art laboratories and research programmes. As he concluded he emphasised that the “The role of CSIR-NIO will grow tremendously in the years to come, and that the CSIR-NIO will achieve new milestones and country will attain new heights of glory in ocean development”.
Earlier during the day, a tree plantation programme was conducted for the new entrants to the institute during the year 2021 in the institute’s campus. During the in-house program, Prof. Sunil Kumar Singh, Director, CSIR-NIO has addressed the staff with new year greetings. He further has announced various categories of awards to the staff and students of the institute such as CSIR-NIO Foundation Day Awards (Individual and Team). Dr. Sathyavathi Panakala Rao award; Geeta Mukhopadhyay Best Thesis Award; ICBAB best paper award; AcSIR Topper award; Sagar Sukti Award; He congratulated all the awardees.
Dr. Sanil Kumar, Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Foundation Day committee proposed the vote of thanks.



