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Scientific and Administrative Support Services

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Planning, Monitoring and evaluation Group (PMe)

Contract R & D Projects, as Sponsored, Collaborative and Grant-in-Aid Projects are undertaken by the Laboratory with funding from External Agencies. Before submission of the project proposals to the outside agencies they are evaluated by the Group based on various criteria and conditions. Monitoring and developing of complete database for report generation on projects are done andprojectfilesarecreatedandmaintained.SimilarlyMajor Laboratory Projects and other In-house Projects funded by CSIR & NPL, undertaken in NPL, are also monitored. Fund allocation and processing of indents is an important activity undertaken by this group. The report on completed projects and refund of unspent balance to the funding agencies at the end of project are made by the group.

PME prepares Annual Plan and Five Year Plan for NPL. It organizes Research Council meetings and coordinates the Management Council meetings, organized by administration. Time to time PME disseminates information on projects, performance reports and ECF reports to CSIR. PME is also involved in monitoring of Networking Projects. PME developed manpower data and maintains staff positions and disseminates the information to various authorities. The group also maintains and regulates the appointments of project staff under various externally funded projects.

PME has the additional responsibility of getting feedback on degree of customer satisfaction in a prescribed format from funding agencies who are funding the different contract research projects in NPL. The process is done at the end of each project. This function has been initiated by CSIR under the supervision of Customer Satisfaction Evaluation Unit (CSEU) at CSIR Headquarter, RafiMarg, New Delhi – 110 001. The feed-back received from the funding agencies are sent to CSEU, CSIR.

PME prepares many types of reports on Manpower in different formats as required from time-to-time and also does different type of Analysis for manpower planning of the laboratory.

Publication of Annual Report is another important activity of PME. On receiving inputs from various

Divisions & other concerned groups, Text and Apendices of Annual Report are compiled, corrected and published in the form of Annual Report each year.

Industrial Liaison Group (ILG)The Industrial Liaison Group (ILG) is responsible for the commercialization of research and knowledge developed by the NPL’s scientists and researchers.Our focus is to foster and develop collaborative work environments between researchers, industry partners and funding agencies. We want to ensure that the relationships created through the commercialization of a technology continue to add value for all partners; leading to ongoing research projects for the inventor and the industry partner and to the commercialization of complementary technologies.

In addition, this group also undertakes consultancy, technical services and dissemination of science and knowledge base.

This group is responsible for all matters connected with business development. Also helps in organizing “Technology” Day and “World Metrology Day” function where all licensees are invited to interact and deliberate with concerned PI of the technology. It also helps in organizing “Open Day” function, wherein few thousand school and college students with their teachers are invited to see the various scientific and technicalactivities at NPL.

This group further carries out the dissemination of science through publication in CSIR news and in CSIR annual report, business and industrial magazines and their websites and through advertisements in news papers, conferences, symposiums, various other events and their souvenirs and also through participation in exhibitions. Processing of applications for the awards pertaining to technology or consultancy services is rendered. This group also undertakes distribution of royalty, premia and intellectual fee pertaining to consultancy, technical services and technology know transferred.

Updates industries, licensees and scientists for any CSIR/DST entrepreneurship/ funding schemes for applying for awards/projects. Also updates scientists about scientific and technical exhibition, events.Actsas bridge in resolving scientific and technical issues

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raised by industries/clients for providing them solution through technical and consultancy services.

This group also takes care in the management of S & T outputs with other funding agencies viz. DST, CSIR, NRDC, AIMA, CDC, etc. This group has recently initiated its efforts in setting-up an Incubation Centre and possible knowledge alliance with Sensor Technology Pvt. Ltd., Moser Baer Photovoltaic Limited and Sukrut Systems in the area of sensor electronics, solar energy and biological instrumentations.

Human Resource Development Group (HRDG)

The Human Resource Development (HRD) Group of NPL is a constituent group of SASD 8 and represents a central group of the laboratory providing a wide range of HRD service. It undertakes several activities in various areas of core competence of the lab and also related to research scholars. The group is involved in various activities, such as, Organisation of Industrial Training in Metrology/Standards,Students’Training/ProjectWorkfor M.Tech./MCA/M.Sc. and other equivalent degree, Institutional Visits, Deputation of NPL staff members to attend conferences, etc,. All these activities eventually lead to the generation of the trained S & T manpower.

International Science and Technology Affairs Group (ISTAG)Internationalvisitsplayan importantpartofscientificR & D. Processing of application of the laboratory scientists, CSIR fellows & DST Women Scientists pertaining to international visits viz. International conference, seminars, bilateral exchange programmes, sabbatical leave/study leave etc. for deputations abroad are handled by this group. It also arranges important lectures and invited talks. Arranging training programmes for international candidates is also the job of this group. It also organizes the visit of foreign delegations at NPL. International collaborative projects, Bilateral International cooperation programmes & MoUs of NPL are also the areas of this group.

Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC)NPL Knowledge Resource Center (KRC) has been providing library and information support to scientists for R & D pursuits.

Over the years, it has developed a rich collection of scholarly books and journals for the purpose, specially inthefieldofphysicsandrelatedsciences.

During the current year, KRC subscribed to 85 scholarly journals (63 foreign journals and 22 Indian journals) and added 45 S & T books, 92 Hindi books. KRC serves the NPL community with services like Reprographic service, Electronic Document Delivery service, Inter Library Loan service, Reference service, Literature Search service etc.

NPL-KRC offers online access to more than 6000+ full text journals under the e-consortium project of NKRC (CSIR+DST). The project facilitates access to electronic content from various publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, AIP (American Institute of Physics), APS (American Physical Society), AGU (American Geophysical Union), Wiley - Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society etc as well as the archives of few publishers on concession rates.

KRC is also providing access to intranet edition of Indian Standards.

The shift in technology achieved last year with the installation of improved routers helped in attracting the R & D personnel in large number to make use of NPL-KRC and leads to optimize the use of the subscribed/ entitled e-resource as well as internet resources.

On continuous basis, KRC maintains its site on the NPL intranet to provide latest information on its activities such as additions to its collection, current subscribed journals, new journals received during the week, links to electronic libraries, publishing houses, and papers published by NPL researchers.

NPL-KRC also maintains NPL website (http://www.nplindia.org) on Internet to inform others about the activities of NPL such as its role towards the society, thrust area of research, facilities, services and achievements.

Presently, KRC is in the process of further automating its operations and planning for digitization. To undertake this arduous automation task, a Technical Experts and Evaluation Committee (TEEC) was constituted to get

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the best ideas for transformation of NPL-KRC and to select the integrated library management software from among the alternatives (Alice for Windows, Egranthalaya, LibSys, NewGenLib, Virtua etc.).

Towards digitization, we are in the process of compiling information from various libraries where digitization process is completed or is in the process. Further, NPL-KRC is trying to set up an understanding/ MoU between NPL and Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad to enter into a UDL (Universal Digital Library) Project, a strictly non-commercial project, funded by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

Central Workshop, Cryogenic Plants & GTu (SASD-5)

During this period, Central Workshop has successfully completed more than 858 jobs related to R&D and maintenance including designing, fabrication and development. Out of the above, most of them are highly sophisticated components related to Cesium Fountain Clock, Rubidium Atomic Clock –a joint project of NPL and Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad. The other important components are belongs to Helmotz Coil, Technology development for Sensors, Fabrication of LED devices & systems for Solid State Lighting applications etc.

In the Cryogenic Plants & Facilities Section, from April 2010 to Dec. 2010, we have produced a total of 600 liters of Liquid Helium (total market value of this production is approximately Rs. 4,30,000/- (Rupees Four lacs and thirty thousand only) and approximately 63,520 liters of Liquid Nitrogen for R&D requirements of NPL (Market value is approximately Rs. 9.50 Lacs only). In addition to this, we have procured a total of 3143 liters of Liquid Helium from outside agencies.

In the Glass Technology Unit we have completed a total of 104 jobs of different sections of NPL and 7 jobs from outside agencies like Indian Oil Corporation, IIT Delhi, IARI etc.

Due to the proper preventive maintenance, most of our Workshop machines including CNC, lathe, cutting, grinding, welding, carpentry, Glass & Quartz blowing

machines and Cryogenic Plants (Liquid Helium & Liquid Nitrogen Plants) are working satisfactorily.

More details regarding the job works are given below:

A. Central Workshop

Total Number of jobs completed at workshop were 858 costing Approx. Rs. 1.06 Crore. ( Rs.One Crore and Six Thousand)

Total Number of jobs completed at drawing & design section –160

Raw material and spares procured – App. Rs. 2.30 Lacs.

Procured CATIA CAD/CAM V5R19 Software-Rs. 2.65 Lacs. (Permanent license)

B. Cryogenic Plants & Facilities

Liquid Helium produced at NPL – 600 liters

Liquid Helium procured from outside agencies- 3143 liters

Liquid Nitrogen produced at NPL -63520 liters

C. Glass Technology unit

Total Internal jobs completed -104

Total external jobs completed –7

Value of External Jobs Done-Rs.1.06 (Rs. One Lac and Six Thousand only)

Revolving Advance expenditure – Rs. 1.89 Lacs.

Computation & Network Facility (CNF)IT Infrastructure

The Computation & Network Facility (CNF) has taken many steps to enhance and modernise the IT infrastructure in the year 2010-11. A state of the art Data Center has been established with several new servers, security devices and solutions like UnifiedThreatManagement system,multi-levelfirewall, anti-spam, and antivirus solutions. It has elevated the overall network security and improved the quality of service. Currently,serversunder24X7operationincludeMail,

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Web, DHCP, DNS, Bridge, Intranet, Router, Anti-virus, Computation, Database, Backup and other Divisional servers for providing specific software applicationsthrough centralized access.

A Gigabit fiber optics based backbone now connectsall buildings on campus providing LAN connectivity to approximately 900 computers including laptops. Internet bandwidth has been raised three times to 12 Mbps. A Video conferencing facility is now available for all at NPL. Apart from this, the CNF also provides IT hardware and software support to the end-users. CNF thus facilitates network connectivity, computing and user-support.

CSIR-NPL is planned to be a part of National Knowledge Network (NKN) in the near future. It will provide an internet bandwidth of 1Gbps. The CNF has started planning, analysis, and design for additional of further important IT facilities like a 128 core computational cluster, Storage Area Network (SAN) and a high end UPS for the Data Centre.

Inhouse Software Development

• An Online Recruitment Application systemhas been developed and deployed to facilitate recruitmentofscientificstaff.Thesystemallowsweb based submission of recruitment applications by candidates and provides various reports to facilitate the processing of the applications at NPL's Recruitment Division.

• A project has been undertaken to automate thelibrary processes.

• ThePersonnelInventorySystem(PIR)developedand deployed earlier, to enable the employees and

Central Stores to maintain and the use the records online, has been enhanced to include various report generation facilities to assist Store Administrators in their management tasks. Also enhanced print facilityforusersintheformofpdffileshasbeenmade available.

R & D activities:

• A DST sponsored project entitled “InnovativeProduct Development Centre” has been started for development of affordable medical instruments. A 12-lead PC plug in ECG device and a battery operated palmtop Pulse Oximeter have been developed.

These devices were showcased at the CSIR Technofest '10 held during the International Trade Fair. These high quality, low cost solutions to cater to the needs of the Indian healthcare system received an overwhelming response.

A pilot phase with fifteen ECG units has beenplanned for feedback from medical professionals before launching the ECG device into the market. A tie up with an industrial partner to manufacture and market the devices is also being pursued.

Quality Management System• Toestablishtheinternationalacceptabilityofthe

calibration & measurement capabilities of NPL worldwide;

• Togiveusersreliablequantitativeinformationonthe comparability of national metrology services;

• Toprovidethetechnicalbasisforwideragreementsnegotiated for international trade, commerce and regulatory affairs.

This group maintains Quality System in NPL, based on the international standard IS/ISO/IEC 17025:2005, in the area of Test and Calibration. All the test/calibration areas ofNPLI are periodically audited to confirm thecontinued compliance to the international standard.

Due to reorganization of different Groups of NPL, the Quality Manual has been revised and new issue has been released. The document manuals are being revised by the various activities. The Quality Policy has been revised and new policy has been displayed in different places of NPL.

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Peer review of Acoustic, Vibration & Ultrasonic activity has been initiated. This group helped Ozone Standards activity to implement the quality system and for preparation of the peer review.

A delegation from NPL participated in APMP General Assembly and related meetings held in Thailand. Laboratory Report of NPL was prepared and submitted

to APMP in its General Body meeting. The QMS annual report was also submitted in APMP QS TC meeting.

A training course on “Quality Management System – Laboratory Management, Need for Calibration / Accreditation as per IS/ISO/IEC-17025 was conducted during 10-12 August, 2010. About 10 participants from different institutes attended the course.

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