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COMPUTER
SUPPORT AND
SERVICES
DIVISION
Head
Dr C Dinah Geethalathai
Table 1
Web sites hosted at CSSD
● aeroinfo.org.in
● csirwebistad.res.in
● aeroinfomatics.org.in
● icast.org.in
● indianaviation.org.in
● itt.org.in
● viman.res.in
● nal.res.in
156 Management and Support Divisions
REPORTS O� MANAGEMENT
AND R&D SUPPORT DIVISIONS
The Computer Support and Services
Division (CSSD) continues to work 24
hours, 7 days a week in order to
provide support and services to NAL's
national aerospace programmes.
CSSD provides technical/
infrastructural support in the areas of
uninterrupted power supply, AC,
EPABX, computing facilities,
networking, PC maintenance, internet
and e-mail facilities, selection and
procurement of computer systems
and all computer-related problems.
In addition, CSSD has a number of
other major responsibilities:
● Network security
● Management of the campus
network
● Software development
● Training programmes
● Support to outside organizations
During 2002-03, CSS Division has
made significant progress in all the
above areas.
18.1A NETWORKING
PROGRAMMES
The campus network spanning the
three campuses at Kodihalli, Belur
and CMMACS/C-CADD is working
satisfactorily. The three campuses
share computing resources through
the Mbps fibre optic cable using
symmetric gigabit ethernet switching.
During 2002-2003 CSSD took up
the responsibility of eradicating the
virus menace on both standalone
and networked computers. Norton
Antivirus, has been installed on all
the computers in the three campuses
and the network is working
satisfactorily.
It is heartening to note that in spite of
threats from the Internet, NAL is
hosting nine web sites (see Table 1):
All these web sites are accessible
through NAL’s network security
system. The Division has also set up
a web based e-mail service for NAL
staff to access their mails from office,
home or from anywhere in the
world through the Internet. The
interface provided is similar to that
provided by mail servers such as
Hotmail, Yahoo, Rediffmail, etc.
18.1B NETWORK SECURITY
It is heartening to note that NAL’s
network security system, designed
and implemented by the CSSD without
the use of any commercial software,
has protected our campus network
from all Internet threats.
The aim is to secure Internet access
and guard the campus network from
internal and external attacks. The
network security system uses both
defensive and offensive strategies:
● �irewalls, proxies, reverse proxies,
packet filters, password security
policies, hardening and
firewalling of the OS's.
● Antivirus software
● Intrusion detection system
● Intrusion deception system

The salient features of this system
were elaborated in last year's Annual
Report. The project is presently in the
implementation stages and will be
completed shortly. However we must
mention that the network security
project is of a dynamic nature,
needing constant monitoring with
quick design/configuration changes
based on the various monitored
parameters and intrusion detections.
The network security programme is a
never ending challenge - a police
and robber game!
18.1C ADVANCED
IN�ORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
CENTRE
The Advanced Information
Technology Centre (AITC), set up at
CSSD under the CTD/USAID
programme for software
development and training
programmes has progressed very well
during 2002-2003.
SO�TWARE DEVELOPMENT
The following are the software
packages developed by CSS Division.
● IPR – management and mode of
protection
This package is an intranet application
tool for use by scientists. The package
provides step by step guidelines for
drafting and filing of patents, designs,
trademarks and copyrights. It also
provides a questionnaire to determine
whether the item is patentable.
● Meta power search and automated
downloading of web pages
This package accepts any keyword as
input and uses several search engines
(maximum of 8) concurrently for the
search. The results of the concurrent
search are displayed in the form of
links with check boxes. Web pages of
all the checked links can be saved,
displayed or printed. The advantage
of this package is a faster response
compared to the conventional method
of downloading web pages
sequentially from various search
engines. This package is available
on the intranet as well as the web
server.
● Office workflow automation
This is a workflow automation
package for typical day-to-day
workflows in an office environment
namely leave application, requisition
form, etc. starting from the source all
the way up to the final sanctioning
authority including the intermediate
hops. The salient features at each
hop are: access based login,
authentication, hierarchy, mail box
facility and help.
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SECTION
18.2A BELUR CAMPUS
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Heads
Viveka Naik and M V Krishna
The following major works were
completed during the financial year
2002-03 at NAL's Belur Campus.
● Establishing centralised 40k VA
power to CT�D Division.
● Acoustic proof enclosure for
250kV A DG-set at C-MMACS.
● Re-conditioning of street lights on
NWTC road.
● Electrification of auxiliary building
to AT� control room, including instal-
● Project tracking and management
system
This is a project monitoring and
evaluation package that provides all
details of projects: management,
financial, technical and status of
projects. Reports on the above details
can also be generated.
CSSD has also developed a number
of utilities/tools in the area of network
security.
18.1D TRAINING
PROGRAMMES
As part of the continuing education
programmes for human resource
development, CSSD continues to
conduct courses on computer basics
and networks for the staff of NAL in
batches of 45-50 participants.
18.1E SUPPORT TO OUTSIDE
ORGANIZATIONS
CSS Division also provides
consultancy to Central and State
Government departments in the
recruitment and assessment
Committees, selection of computers,
UPS, networking and computerization
activities of their departments.
CSSD also guides over 60-70
graduate and post graduate students
every year in their project work.
lation of 12 tonne air-conditioners.
● Active participation in the
augmentation programme of NTA�.
● Active participation in the
establishment of ramjet-scramjet at
combustor test facility of Propulsion
Division.
● Electrification of canteen annexure
building.
18.2B KODIHALLI CAMPUS
The Electrical Section, Kodihalli is
involved in providing technical
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support, power supply and stand by
power supply to various facilities in
the Lab and also the electrical
grounding scheme for the SARAS
aircraft. This year's highlights include:
● Assisting in the preparation of the
installation drawing of the electrical
ground module for SARAS.
● Commissioning of 66 KV/11KV,
10MVA electrical sub-station having
2 x 5MVA, OLTC transformers and
other auxiliary switchgear.
● Commissioning of power supply
to various process equipment at I�CAP
facility.
● Commissioning of 11KV substation
having 2x1.5MVA
transformers with other auxiliary
switchgear for I�CAP facility.
● Providing internal power and
lighting installation to fibre spinning
plant building (Phase –1) at Kodihalli
campus.
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ENGINEERING
SERVICES
Head
C Chandra Shekar
ò
�ig. 1 Distribution of manmachine
hours to Divisions.
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● Providing external power supply
to CVI lab facility and fibre spinning
plant building.
● Supply, installation, testing and
commissioning of electrical systems
for CVI reactor.
● Providing power and lighting to
the first floor of the canteen.
● Maintenance of all centralized
and package type air-conditioners at
DO’s Conference Hall, TS Seminar
Hall, Guest House, �losolver, CVD
and RN Centre, through an annual
maintenance contract.
● Monitoring the operation and
maintenance of 300 window model
air-conditioners.
● Distribution of UPS power points
for new seminar halls, conference
rooms, labs annexe office from the
existing centralized UPS system.
● Maintenance of 450 staff quarters
The Engineering Services Division has
well-established manufacturing facilities
to offer technical services to
various scientific divisions and outside
organizations like HAL, ADA, ISRO
etc.
PLANNING AND ENGINEERING
O��ICE
The Planning and Engineering Office
continues to play a major role in the
processing of SARAS/HANSA/Tejas
related aircraft components, associated
jigs and fixtures and various test
setups.
The Office receives all the
manufacturing drawings for the
SARAS and HANSA aircraft with the
process sheets. This office has the
responsibility of scrutinizing the
drawings, of routing and scheduling
for manufacture and delivery of the
installations on a day-to-day
maintenance.
● Day-to-day electrical maintenance
at various facilities and
laboratories.
● Carrying out street light
maintenance inside and outside the
Lab and staff quarters.
● Electrification (power and lighting)
of 60 scientist apartments at Kodihalli
(under progress).
● Operation and maintenance of
11KV/ 433V, 2000KVA electrical substation
with associated switchgears.
● Operation and maintenance of
2 x 750KVA DG sets as stand by
power supply.
● Operation and maintenance of
100KVA and 250KVA dedicated
stand-by power supply to Director’s
Conference Hall and S R Valluri
auditorium.
aircraft components as per the prescribed
time schedule. The manpower
utilization for the major projects are
detailed in the enclosed chart (�ig. 1).
The major contributions to the various
projects during the year 2002–03
are as follows:
● Inspection and certification of
SARAS wing assembly jig at HAL,
Nasik at all stages as per DGCA
regulations.
● Inspection and certification of
fuselage assembly jigs at TAAL, Hosur
as per the norms of DGCA.
● �abrication, inspection and
certification of various ICYMedia for
the aircraft projects.
● Various components for the Cradome
mould and Jaguar radome.
● �abrication of stub wing test rig
for SARAS.
The Division has also taken the

esponsibility of processing the
purchase indents for various components
for the SARAS programme with
the approved vendors in and around
Bangalore, which includes the followup,
timely completion, inspection and
quality control of the components at
various stages of machining and
delivery of accepted components to
the bonded stores or to the identified
agency, wherever the components
are taken for sub-assemblies.
The Planning Office has maintained
all the records pertaining to the cost,
materials, tools procured for various
projects.
CENTRAL MANU�ACTURING
�ACILITIES
The central manufacturing facilities
are fully equipped with various
conventional and CNC machinery
and engaged in the production of
aircraft components, jigs, fixtures etc.
All the components are being
manufactured under strict vigilance
and supervision to attain high quality
standards. The main partners in this
activity are the precision instrument
shop, sheet metal and welding shop
and a few other divisional workshops
viz, Structures and Materials Division
workshops.
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ESTATES AND
BUILDINGS UNIT
Head
C Chandra Shekar
METROLOGY LABORATORY
A well-established metrology
laboratory has been set up having a
variety of precision equipment such
as height masters, surface tester,
roundness measuring instrument,
high precision theodolytes and the
latest computerised co-ordinate
measuring machine’. This Lab is
mainly responsible for calibration of
inspection equipment and quality
control of all components and assemblies
pertaining to the major aircraft
manufacturing programme of NAL.
METAL �INISHING & PAINTING
The electroplating and painting shop
carries out metal finishing and
painting of SARAS/HANSA/Tejas
aircraft components as per standards
of DGCA and ISO. �acilities such as
yellow passivation, dichromate
passivation, chromium plating, colour
anodizing, blackening, nickel-plating,
tin plating, copper plating and
painting are available in the section.
APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING
PROGRAMME
As part of NAL's human resource
development programme, the
Engineering Services Division trains
The following are the major on-going
Laboratory projects supported by the
Estates and Building Unit (EBU).
SCIENTIST APARTMENTS
The construction of 12 three-bed room
apartments and 48 two-bed room
apartments is in progress at Kodihalli
campus. 32 apartments are in an
advanced stage of construction and
likely to be ready by December 2003,
the remaining 18 apartments are
expected to be completed and fit for
occupation by March 2004.
around 35 apprentice trainees in
various technical trades. As per the
norms of the Govt. of India, training
is being offered both in theory and
practice so that they can appear for
the All-India apprenticeship
examination every year.
PHYSICAL PLANT MAINTENANCE
AND TRANSPORT CELL
This section is responsible for the
maintenance and upkeep of the fleet
of NAL transport vehicles and also
material handling equipment in the
Laboratory. The section is also
responsible for running the fleet of
vehicles as per the schedule to pick
up and drop staff members.
This section also maintains all the
records pertaining to all vehicles
and attends to RTO and insurance
affairs.
�IRE PREVENTION CELL
The fire prevention cell is engaged in
updating all the fire fighting
equipment in the Laboratory both at
Kodihalli and NWTC Belur campuses.
The team imparts training to staff
members of NAL so that they can
attend to fire prevention in case of
emergencies.
CONSTRUCTION O� TEST BAY �OR
PROPULSION DIVISION
As part of the collaborative
programme with VSSC, and to carry
out R&D studies on high-speed
combustion, a dedicated facility has
to be established at NAL, NWTC
Belur campus with the existing central
air facility. The building will house
the test bay in the control room. The
estimated cost of this work is around
Rs.55 lakhs. It is in an advan-ced
stage of completion and expected to
be completed by June 2003.
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The following are the major projects
completed during the reporting
period:
�IBRE SPIN �ACILITY
The fibre spin laboratory – phase I at
the Kodihalli campus has been
completed and handed over to the
project leader in January 2003 at a
total cost of Rs. 24 lakhs. The building
will be housed for in-house technology
development for fibre spinning
activities for the development on
carbon fibre, with funding from
DRDO.
�IRST �LOOR OVER THE EXISTING
CANTEEN BUILDING AT KODIHALLI
AND BELUR CAMPUS
The existing canteens at both the
Kodihalli and Belur campuses were
very crowded. Keeping in view the
floating population like project
students, project assistants, contract
staff, labour force from contractors
etc., it was found necessary to build
an additional floor over the existing
canteen both at Kodihalli and Belur.
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Head
I R N Goudar
IN�ORMATION
CENTRE �OR
AEROSPACE
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
160 Management and Support Divisions
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floor.
�ig. 2 The NAL canteen at Kodihalli now has an additional
Both the construction works have
been completed at a cost of Rs.23
lakhs and Rs.20 lakhs respectively
and the new canteen buildings are
now being used by the staff
members (�ig. 2).
The following are the proposed works
for the next financial year:
The Information Centre for Aerospace
Science and Technology (ICAST), with
its state-of-the-art expertise, infrastructure
and services, caters to the
information requirements of the
Indian aerospace community in particular
and the engineering and technical
personnel at large – thus fully
justifying its recognition as a National
Information Centre for Aerospace by
UNESCO, DSIR and AR&DB. ICAST
is well-known for its aerospace collections
of books, journals and, specifically,
technical reports from NASA,
DLR, ONERA, NLR, ARL and UTIAS.
Apart from providing access to about
2000 e-journals, the Centre also
offers online, CD-ROM and Internet
based literature search services.
18.5A COLLECTION
DEVELOPMENT
�or the last three decades the ICAST
● The silicon carbide fibre laboratory
is proposed to be taken up. It is
in an advanced stage of tendering at
a total cost of Rs.17 lakhs.
● Work on the chemical vapour
infiltration laboratory has been
initiated and will be taken up next
year at a total cost of Rs.35 lakhs.
has systematically built up its
document collection in the areas of
aeronautics, aerospace engineering,
computer science, composites,
metallurgy, mechanical engineering,
material science, mathematics, etc.
to provide exhaustive, efficient and
timely information services. Table 2
provides the document collection
details for the year 2002-03 as well
as the cumulative collection for each
category.
18.5B LIBRARY
AUTOMATION
DATABASE CREATION
During the reporting period, the
database creation for ICAST holdings
(OPAC) of current books, journals
and reports (both hardcopy and
microfiche) continued (Table 3). At
present complete OPAC is searchable

Table 2
ICAST document collection
Added during 2002-03 Cumulative
Books, conference 812 79300
proc. and thesis
Reports (hard copy) 1102 87568
Reports (microfiche) – 136503
Standards & patents 84 3473
Bound volumes – 38500
CD’s 26 220
Current journals – 385
from all machines in the three NAL
campuses by telneting. Apart from
the telnet access, web access has also
been provided for books, technical
reports, standards and patents. A
’help’ menu is furnished to access
these databases.
BAR CODING
The bar coding activity continued for
all the current books and hardcopy
reports.
18.5C AEROSPACE
IN�ORMATION
GATEWAY
‘AEROIN�O’
‘AeroInfo’ is the only Indian portal
giving access to aerospace
information available through
Internet. The sources are indexed
and organised under different
headings including general
categories like aerospace
associations/organizations, agencies,
etc.; NASA subject categories like
astronautics, avionics, airfoils,
composites, materials, space
sciences, wind tunnels; and
interdependent subjects like physics,
chemistry, mathematics, computer
science, electronics. Under the
heading 'aviation', the sources are
indexed using all popular terms like
aircraft, airlines, airports, ATC, GPS,
etc. Links have been given exhaustively
to Indian aerospace sources (�ig. 3)
including aircraft, airlines, airports,
air shows, AR&DB, civil aviation,
DGCA, gliding, space agencies,
missiles, satellites, space flights,
weather, personalities, associations,
societies, education, libraries, news,
etc. A search box has been put up to
Table 3
OPAC Statistics
Books 75400
Technical reports 165100
Bound volumes 38000
Standards 3425
Conf. proceedings 11050
Patents 500
Current journals 385
CDs 75
facilitate access to specific sources
quickly. More than 50,000 links have
been provided to various sources
such as for technical reports, patents,
virtual aerospace libraries, regulatory
information etc. The portal is at
www.aeroinfo.org.in.
18.5D ICAST WEBSITE
The ICAST website, apart from giving
detailed information about library
sources including books, journals, Ejournals,
databases and technical
reports makes search tools available
for its users. Other details like working
hours, library rules, links to different
services, etc. are provided. A detailed
site map has been provided for
facilitating search. To facilitate book
selection the site provides links to a
number of online bookshops (�ig. 4)
and an online request form to submit
ò �ig. 3 A noteworthy feature of 'AeroInfo' is its ò
�ig. 4 Online bookshops can be directly
special emphasis on Indian information sources.
accessed from the ICAST website.
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ñ �ig. 5 Web-based forms to recommend ñ �ig. 6 NAL scientists are the most frequent
documents for acquisition have been introduced on the
ICAST site.
users of the ScienceDirect facility.
document request to library (�ig. 5).
18.5E WEB BASED
SERVICES
ACCESS TO E-JOURNALS
All three NAL campuses have been
provided seamless access to more
than 1800 E-Journals published by
leading publishers like Elsevier
(ScienceDirect) and others. ICAST
hopes to soon add to its basket Ejournals
published by Springer,
Kluwer, Blackwell, Taylor & �rancis,
etc. A starter interface page has been
developed to give better understanding
of the browse/search facili-
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ties available with ScienceDirect. NAL
tops the usage (�ig. 6) of ScienceDirect
among the Engineering Group of
CSIR laboratories. (http://192.168.6.
60/icast/wn/sciencedirect.html)
OPAC
�ig. 7 ICAST's telnet service to access technical
reports.
The library database (OPAC) is the
largest in the country with more than
3 lakh bibliographic records of books,
technical reports, patents, standards,
journals, etc. The Web OPAC
facilitates searching the database over
the Internet. The telnet facility,
restricted to NAL campuses, provides
additional facilities to know the online
status of documents, reserve
documents from one’s own desktop
and to answer a host of other queries.
One can search all kinds of documents
directly, e.g., technical reports (�ig.
7). (www.icast. org.in/opac.html)
J-GATE
This subscribed service provides
browsing and database search facility
for more than 10,000 S&T journals
with linking facility to full text and an
indication of the article availability in
local libraries. As on March 2003,
the J-gate database had more than
1.2 million articles with a monthly
upload of 1.5 lakh items. Currently
more than 1 lakh full text articles from
ò �ig. 8 J-Gate offers access to 12 lakh full text
ò
articles; 1 lakh full text articles are free. NAL is a J-Gate
subscriber.

ñ �ig. 9 The ICAST service to prepare an online ñ
�ig. 10 The CARA and CABA services alert
catalogue of periodicals subscribed by CSIR labs and
Indian aerospace establishments continues to be
popular.
users of new arrivals.
1150 journals are freely available.
One can browse the journal titles
alphabetically or choose using any
subject category. The site facilitates
searching the database using
keyword, author, etc. (�ig. 8). (www.jgate.informindia.
co.in/)
TABLE O� CONTENTS (JOURNALS)
This service covers more than 300
titles with both e-mail and Web
options. Contents are thus either
received through e-mail from
publishers or downloaded from their
website or scanned locally before
being made available on the web.
(www.icast.org.in/contents/conents.
html)
UNION CATALOGUE O�
PERIODICALS IN CSIR/AEROSPACE
LIBRARIES
ICAST took the initiative to compile
and load the list of periodicals being
subscribed by nearly 40 CSIR labs
and 20 Bangalore-based aerospace
organisations like ISRO, ADA, GTRE,
CEMILAC etc from the year 2001
onwards (�ig. 9). One can search by
keywords from title, or can browse by
organisation or titles listed alphabetically.
The contact address of the
concerned heads of the information
centres has also been furnished to
facilitate inter library loans. During
the reporting period a few more
aerospace library lists have been
added. (www.icast.org.in/union/
unioncatalog.html)
NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
News items covering aerospace,
aeronautics and related areas, S & T
general, CSIR Labs, matters
concerned to Central Govt employees
etc. are being made available through
ICAST’s Intranet. Apart from covering
leading dailies other popular journals
like Current Science, Science, Nature,
Jane’s Defence Review, Indian
Aviation, Air International, Aeromodeller,
Air Pictorial, etc are also
being scanned. News items are
uploaded everyday by noon. A
powerful search engine ‘Swish-e’ with
helpful tips has been put up to search
the news by any word or name in the
text. (www.icast. org.in/newsclip.htm)
CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE
The combined aerospace reports and
books addition (CARA and CABA)
covering the latest acquisitions in the
area of aeronautics, aerospace and
related subjects from about 25
organisations (IISc, ADE, ADA, GTRE,
ISRO HQ, SHAR, etc.) are now
accessible through the ICAST web
site (�ig. 10). Records are arranged
by subject categories. The printed
publications are also being mailed to
nearly 50 organisations in the country.
In a similar manner, the recent arrival
of journal issues have also been put
up on the site.
18.5� PRINTING AND
PUBLICATIONS
PRINTING SERVICES
The Printing and Publications Section
exclusively serves in-house
requirements covering offset printing,
screen printing, letter press printing
and binding. The Section prints
publications like proceedings of
conferences and seminars, brochures,
folders of major conferences and
seminars organized at NAL almost
on a “turnkey basis”.
This year the Section carried out a
record number of tasks: of the 1365
work requests received, 75 were
major in nature required offset
printing while 1070 were minor in
nature with screen printing, binding.
220 petty works jobs such as letter
press printing, etc. were also executed
(see Table 4).
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Table 4
Major titles printed
Offset printing ● NAL/C-MMACS pocket diaries ● yearly wall calendar (with four color picture printing)
● NAL-UNI lecture series folder/application forms ● ISMMACS conference folder ● Report of
the Director in Hindi and Kannada.
Screen printing ● 17 types of invitations in Hindi and English ● 75 visiting cards for senior officers viz.,
Director, heads of Divisions/Sections, scientists/technical officers and officers belongs to
administration/accounts and house keeping. ● 18 varieties of letterheads ● Stickers for four
wheelers and two wheelers ● �ile covers (�oolscap size) for recruitment and assessment
procedures ● Certificates for participants of NAL-UNI Lecture series participants and SC/ST
computer training programme ● NAL �oundation Day outstanding performance award
plaques.
Letter press ● 220 work requests were completed including cover pages for project documents (PD),
project proposals (PP), special publications (SP), MC agenda, RC agenda etc.
BINDING AND OTHER WORKS
The section did binding work like
ledgers, registers and scientific/
technical reports of the NAL.
This year the Section acquired a new
“rotary disc perforator creaser and
slitter machine power driven 24
inches”, enabling perforation of
canteen coupons, scribbling pads for
conferences / seminars and meetings.
18.5G OTHER SERVICES
TRANSLATION SERVICE
During the reporting period three
articles from German and one article
from Russian were translated into
English.
CIRCULATION O� DOCUMENTS
All NAL staff members above the Gr.
III(1) level can borrow a maximum of
15 documents of any kind at a time,
while the others can borrow
documents depending upon the
group and category they belong to.
During the reporting period, more
than 70,000 counter transactions
(issues and renewals only) took place.
Table 5 provides the membership
details of ICAST. Since March 2003,
ICAST switched over to the more
sophisticated method of transactions
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involving scanning the individual ID
with that of the documents, thereby
discarding the borrower’s cards.
INTER LIBRARY LOAN (ILL)
ICAST extends the inter library lending
facility to many organizations including
ISRO, DRDO, IISc, CSIR and
others. ICAST also procures articles/
documents of interest to its patrons.
The fax or e-mail attachment facility
is used to transmit articles.
REPROGRAPHIC SERVICES
ICAST continued to provide uninterrupted
and quick photocopying
services apart from maintaining the
quality through the facility set up by
Modi Xerox-Document Company.
Table 6 gives statistics of jobs done at
ICAST this year.
18.5H OTHER ACTIVITIES
CORPORATE MEMBERS
Many well known national and multi
national companies including GE,
Infosys, Snecma, Wipro, TCS have
enrolled themselves as corporate
members of ICAST and use our
services extensively.
EXTERNAL CASH �LOW
ICAST earned more than Rs. 9 lakh
Table 5
Membership of ICAST
NAL members 1100
Institutional members 46
Tickets issued 10500
Table 6
Reprography statistics (per month)
�or NAL projects 49000
Others (paid) 17000
�or other institutions 3500
from external sources by providing
services to outside organizations.
ARCHIVAL LIBRARY
The aerospace archive, housed at
ICAST, has in its collection some
important documents connected with
the activities of NAL from its inception.
The broad areas include papers/
publications connected with various
activities of NAL including
collaborative projects, training
facilities, AR&DB project proposals,
NAL’s participation on advisory
committees, scientific and technical
papers connected with aerodynamics,
propulsion, fatigue and fracture,
computers, meteorological studies,
etc. of NAL. The documents are kept
in closed access.

VISITORS
ICAST entertained a number of
visitors which included scientists,
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IN�ORMATION
MANAGEMENT
DIVISION
Head
Dr Srinivas Bhogle
ò
�ig. 11 The Information
Management Division moved into
a sleek new enclosure in 2003.
ò
�ig. 12 Cover page of the
special NAL publication to honour
Dr R A Mashelkar.
students and professors of
universities, IITs, IISc, DRDO and
other organisations. Visitors were
briefed about ICAST collections and
The Information Management
Division (IMD) (�ig. 11) is NAL’s
‘information arm’. The Division’s
responsibilities include:
● Editing, digital design and
publication
● Creating and archiving
multimedia content
● Software for R&D management
● Design and development of
information portals.
In 2002-03, NAL’s Photography Unit
was merged with IMD. This merger is
well conceived; still and video
photography services integrate
seamlessly with IMD’s defined
functions.
18.6A EDITING, DIGITAL
DESIGN AND
PUBLICATION
This activity involves content creation
for the print media. Some of the
content creation effort relates to
established NAL publications, e.g.
services as a part of its awareness
programme. These specialized
network services were well
appreciated.
the Annual Report, the house
magazine Hansa Vani, and the twin
weekly publications: Weekly Calendar
of Events and Information Pasteboard.
Others are specific publications: to
applaud an outstanding scientist or
pilot, or to present a ‘corporate
overview’ of NAL’s R&D missions and
goals.
NAL’s Annual Report 2001-2002 was
a 225-page compilation with over
300 illustrations. This is actually quite
a remarkable publication, but it
seldom receives the acclaim that it
deserves. As always, the publication
was released at NAL’s �oundation
Day function. The system to produce
annual reports has now been perfected;
producing the report is now less
tortuous than what it used to be.
The special publications in 2002-
2003 included a tribute to Dr R A
Mashelkar (who turned 60) (�ig. 12)
and to Wg Cdr P Ashoka (who called
it a day after flying for half a century).
A new NAL corporate brochure and
attractive leaflets on the HANSA and
SARAS aircraft were also produced
for release at Aero India 2003.
AVIA, a new monthly newsletter of the
Aeronautical Society of India, was
launched in November 2002 with an
interview feature with President A P J
Abdul Kalam (�ig. 13). �ive issues of
AVIA have appeared so far.
A new activity – poster design and
presentation – was attempted for the
first time. The first exercise was to
participate in a CSIR creative team to
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�ig. 13 The first issue of
AVIA featuring an interview with
President A P J Abdul Kalam.
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develop 60 posters depicting CSIR’s
achievements in its diamond jubilee
year (“60 diamonds from CSIR”). The
second exercise involved the editing
and design of 12 very large posters
(�ig. 14) for display at Aero India
2003. The challenge here is to work
on a much bigger canvas and use
images, rather than words, to
highlight R&D achievement.
18.6B CREATING AND
ARCHIVING
MULTIMEDIA
CONTENT
A reasonably well-equipped
‘Multimedia Lab’ was set up in 2002-
03 with facilities for nonlinear video
editing, 3D graphics and animations,
multimedia integration and colour
printing. It is now possible to handle
most of the multimedia presentation
and archiving activity within the
Division.
Two multimedia presentations (�ig.
15) were prepared for Aero India
2003. The first was a rather long (but
very complete) introduction of NAL’s
mission and goals, programmes,
facilities, technologies, successes,
concerns and future plans. The second
was a brief (6-minute) introduction of
the SARAS programme recounted in
the first person.
The work in 2003-04 would largely
centre on creating comprehensive
(both still and video) digital archives
of the SARAS programme. There are
two challenges here: the first is to
acquire extensive (high quality) digital
footage of all the major events, and
the second is to archive all this footage
in easily searchable and retrievable
databases.
18.6C SO�TWARE �OR R&D
MANAGEMENT
There’s a serious concern that NAL’s
software programs and databases
for R&D management are too
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‘localized’; they serve individual user
departments well enough but do not
network to become true management
information systems. A second,
equally serious, concern, relates to
user authentication and data security.
A major exercise is now being initiated
to address these concerns.
Information ‘integration’ could be
achieved either by using enterprise
resource planning (ERP) software or
by a more loosely bonded web-based
portal formulation. ERP software is
considered to be too expensive, very
hard to customize and therefore
eventually infeasible. The approach
using portals, built around web
application servers, appears much
more promising. To handle the
security questions, the first effort is to
introduce a dual user authentication
(e.g. using an ATM card and a pin
number) instead of a single-level
password protection. The options
being considered include smart cards
with readers, biometric approaches
or tokens that generate synchronized
‘passkeys’ to complement passwords.
�uture security initiatives would
include data encryption, digital
signatures etc.
All the existing software solutions (e.g.
the payroll programs) worked
flawlessly and ‘did the job’ without
much ado.
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�ig. 14 One of the posters
designed for display at NAL’s stall
in Aero India 2003. Designing big
posters is a big challenge.
ò
�ig. 15 The cover jackets of the two multimedia presentations
released in �ebruary 2003.

ñ �ig. 16 The home page of NAL’s web site as it ñ
�ig. 17 WebISTAD, CSIR’s portal for
appears on 15 July 2003. The site reports on NAL international cooperation, went online on 1 January
activity to an international audience.
2003. WebISTAD is CSIR’s first web-based information
service.
In 2003-2004, the effort will be to
introduce better software engineering
practices (better quality and
documentation procedures) and
introduce efficient (and secure) webbased
workflow practices. The
objective is to develop marketable
software products, not provide ad
hoc software solutions requiring
continual change.
18.6D DESIGN AND
DEVELOPMENT O�
IN�ORMATION
PORTALS
Web sites and intranets must
eventually graduate into highly
interactive and efficient information
portals. With every passing year NAL
appears to get closer to this objective.
NAL’s web site at www.nal.res.in
continues to receive a very large
number of visitors (�ig. 16). It is
always difficult to effect big changes
in a well-established site but one
tries. Simple animation using �lash
adds to a site’s appeal, although one
must be careful not to overdo things.
Interactive services (e.g. online
applications for temporary positions,
vendor registrations) also help. NAL’s
web managers have been successful
in such efforts; the site has settled
down nicely.
WEBISTAD
WebISTAD, CSIR’s portal for
international cooperation (�ig. 17)
jointly developed by NAL and ISTAD,
went online on 1 January 2003. The
portal contains a large number of
databases (fellowships, trainer
potential, addresses), useful links
(carefully structured, based on
resources and research institutions)
and services. WebISTAD’s eclearance
service has, however,
proved to be the most popular; this
service is currently offered to NAL,
NCL, NIO and IICT, but it will be
progressively extended to most CSIR
labs. WebISTAD still has several
imperfections, but it is CSIR’s first
web-based service.
VIMAN VIKAS
With NAL’s growing involvement in
the design and development of
certified composite airworthy
components, usually with very
stringent time targets, scientists –
especially in the Advanced
Composites Division – are quite at
the end of their tether. VIMAN VIKAS
is an initiative to develop a workflow
based information system to support
this component development activity.
Work has just started – the module on
material receipt and management is
currently being coded – and there’s
still a very long road ahead.
MAUSAM
IMD’s contribution to the NMITLI
project on ‘mesoscale modeling for
monsoon-related predictions’ is likely
to be in the area of data management,
visualization and dissemination. The
MAUSAM portal is expected to
become the visible interface of his
vitally important project. The first
initiative was to web-enable a software
routine to retrieve (and plot)
meteorological data acquired from
NCEP for the project.
IMD is now three years old; the
Division should, over the years,
graduate into a very good knowledge
repository and management centre.
18.6E PHOTOGRAPHY AND
OTHER
IN�ORMATION
SERVICES
The Photography Unit has only one
way to go: go completely digital. In
2002-03, the Unit acquired an
excellent digital camera with
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associated attachments, and this
camera has been used to shoot
hundreds of excellent photographs –
from images visible under electronic
microscopes to spectacular photos of
major events (�ig. 18). The Unit has
also acquired two computers and a
good scanner to scan film negatives.
The hope is that every NAL image –
still or moving – will be carefully
classified and available, both for
viewing or downloading, from wellstructured
image database archives.
STUDENT PROJECTS
IMD is one of NAL’s preferred divisions
for student (especially MCA and BE)
projects. Over 20 projects, involving
about 50 students, were undertaken
last year. A large number of these
projects don’t ‘take off’, but a few
(about one out of five) prove to be
very successful and go on to much
bigger things. One of the useful
projects undertaken last year relates
to the budgeting and spending at
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Head
R V M Chokkalingam
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�ig. 19 A delegation from
Israel at the NAL Museum.
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�ig. 18 Even as Dr R A Mashelkar prepared to cut the ribbon to enter
the SARAS aircraft, NAL's photographers with digital cameras were already
inside to shoot the event.
NAL’s Kendriya Vidyalaya. Another
successful project was to build a webbased
information system for rating
the performance of international
cricket teams. A third project was to
The NAL Museum is a single
environment of integrated content
for visitor orientation to NAL activities.
It is a unified point of access to
audiences on NAL aerospace R&D
programme. The museum has an
audience specific learning environ-
develop a PC to mobile
communication interface for
information exchange (could be very
useful in the realtime analysis of
election results).
ment with sections on national aircraft
programmes, national test facilites,
aerospace R&D and spin-off technologies.
The museum has optimal use
of 1200 sq ft floor area with open
exhibits, smooth Traffic flow and
simple design. The rich-textured

laminated graphic panels are
suspended for easy interchangeability,
replacement and repair.
Information in a more conventional
form is delivered by single sentence
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MONITORING
AND
EVALUATION
DIVISION
Head
M S Ramachandra
labels with simple, concise and clear
messages. The Museum houses 70
colour digital print graphic panels,
three attractive working scale models
of national test facilities, three elegant
PME Division is associated with the
management of all NAL’s in-house
and sponsored projects. Its other
responsibilities include preparation
of plan documents, annual budget
and related interactions, prioritization
and allocation of grants and
expenditure monitoring. PMED is
also actively involved in interactions
with sponsors to identify their needs
and generate project proposals to
help the utilization of NAL’s
competencies by them. To facilitate
this activity, PMED has established
strong linkages with the relevant
groups associated with all major
national aerospace programmes and
other aerospace agencies like ADA,
DRDO, ISRO, IA�, DGCA and airline
operators. Depending upon the
requirements of these programmes,
the technology/knowledge base
available in NAL is also to be
upgraded in a planned manner to
meet specific future requirements.
To encourage innovativeness, NAL
has a system of initiating projects
based on proposals received from
scientists. When successful, these
projects will give valuable inputs to
future technology development. In
this connection PMED has been
successfully interfacing with many
scientific groups to generate
appropriate project proposals and
getting them approved. As part of
the ISO procedures, PMED is actively
involved in the review of all projects
(in-house and external) with a view to
monitoring their progress.
EXTERNAL PROJECTS AND
EXTERNAL CASH �LOW
CSIR has identified certain parameters
to judge the performance of its
constituent laboratories. Of these,
colour transparency turn tables and
three actual wind tunnel test model
specimens. As usual the Museum
attracted visitors throughout the year
(�ig. 19).
the external cash flow is perhaps the
most important. This represents the
cash in-flow to CSIR institutions from
external agencies. It also serves as
an indicator of the usefulness of the
CSIR knowledgebase to the country
in general and user organisations in
particular. In NAL, every year specific
targets for EC� are set and PMED
evolves a strategy to meet these
targets. NAL has been the top most
EC� generator among CSIR
laboratory ever since this concept
was introduced. PMED interacts with
different sponsoring agencies at the
proposal, negotiation, fine tuning and
approval stages of projects and acts
as the focal point for EC� generation.
This year, NAL once again topped
CSIR laboratories with an EC�
generation of Rs. 28.59 crores. To
facilitate these sponsored projects and
co-working with other institutions,
PMED works out appropriate
contracting arrangements keeping in
mind the constraints faced by both
the partners. �urther, PMED also
continuously interacts with the
sponsoring agency during the project
implementation phase and ensures
the flow of management information
desired by the sponsors.
In recognition of its continued excellent
performance in EC� generation, NAL
was awarded the CSIR Technology
Prize-2002 for business development
and technology marketing.
MODERNISATION/ AUGMENTA-
TION PROGRAMME
A programme to modernise NAL’s
facilities had been approved earlier
by the Standing �inance Committee
and this programme was successfully
completed during the year. A large
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number of major facilities of NAL
were modernised or upgraded under
the programme.
The National Trisonic Aerodynamic
�acilities (NTA�) are specialised
aerodynamic facilities which are great
assets to the nation and have
substantially contributed to all the
major aerospace projects of the
country. A programme to augment
and modernise these aging facilities
had been initiated after approval by
the Expenditure �inance Committee.
This programme made major
progress during the year and the
highlights included the installation
and commissioning of the automatic
balance calibration system and the
arrival at the site of two air
compressors. This programme is
being implemented with the support
of ISRO and DRDO.
CUSTOMER SATIS�ACTION
EVALUATION (CSE)
To evaluate the usefulness of the outputs
of R&D projects to the customers,
a customer satisfaction evaluation
system has been put in place by CSIR.
The Division interacts with the
Customer Satisfaction Evaluation Unit
(CSEU) of CSIR in this task. Relevant
reports are obtained for selected
completed projects of NAL, analysed
and appropriate feed back given to
project teams.
Evaluation reports of projects closed
during the last four years have been
analysed and presented in �ig 20.
Evaluation of the projects closed
during the year 2002-03 is in the
final stages and so far 11 reports
have been received.
PMED has an important role in NAL’s
ISO activities including surveillance
audit, periodic reviews, contract
review and redressal system and in
NAL’s efforts to update to ISO 9001-
2000 standards.
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�ig. 20 Customer satisfaction evaluation (CSE) of NAL's projects.
(�igures in brackets indicate the number of projects chosen for evaluation).
TENTH �IVE YEAR PLAN
The Tenth �ive Year Plan (T�YP) of the
country started in April 2002. The
Division has been playing a crucial
role in formulating the T�YP for the
aerospace sector as also the specific
plan for NAL’s activity. Head, PMED
was the Convener for the Sectoral
Committee in Aerospace headed by
Dr V K Aatre, SA to RM. The
Committee deliberated on various
spects and submitted its report to the
Steering Committee on science and
technology set up by the Planning
Commission.
Based on the Steering Committee’s
report, CSIR has identified 55 network
programmes to be taken up during
the T�YP. NAL has the responsibility
to play a lead role in three of these.
Task forces were constituted for all
the three programmes with the
Director as Chairman and
representatives from participating
Laboratories as members. These
network programmes are:
● Spearheading small civilian
aircraft design, development and
manufacture
● Developing and sustaining high
science and technology for national
aerospace programmes
● Develop specialised aerospace
materials
The task forces have met and
consolidated the proposals after
scrutinising the inputs received from
various participating groups. The
first two programmes have also
received ‘in-principle’ approval from
the Planning Commission. Detailed
proposals have since been formulated
and submitted for approval.
RC/MC/DSC MEETINGS
The Division acts as the nodal point in
organising Research Council (RC)
Management Council (MC) and the
Divisional Scientific Committee (DSC)
meetings. During the year, the RC
met twice. All the DSCs met during
the year and reviewed the scientific
activities of the respective Divisions in
detail and reported to the RC.
During the year NAL continued to
maintain its pride of place in both
technical and financial performances
among the CSIR Labs. The Division’s

activities have contributed in the
implementation of already approved
projects and approvals of new
projects. The Division has also
contributed to the evaluation of NAL’s
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SECRETARIAT
Head
M R Narasimha Swamy
Table 7
License Agreement
performance during the preceding
year and the preceding plan period
as well as preparing the detailed
proposals for the next plan period.
The successful execution of these tasks
Technical Secretariat provided
excellent back-up support for the
activities of the Director in terms of
public relations, business
development, intellectual property
management, human resource
development programmes and
hospitality services.
Date of signing Technology & Industry Name Amount
license agreement
has been possible through effective
networking among the sponsoring
agencies, stakeholders, CSIR
Headquarters as also the various
scientific divisions / groups of NAL.
14 teams of foreigners, 10 general
teams including VIPs and ministers,
28 teams of students, 13 teams from
defence establishments visited the
laboratory. �ive special lectures were
organised and seven important
functions were conducted by the
Technical Secretariat.
May 2002 Supply of know how – process for room temperature �ee: Rs. 1,57,500
black chromium plating bath formulation
M/s Sudarshan Saur Shakti Pvt. Ltd.
Royalty: Rs.12/mtr sq
09.10.2002 Supply of know how – process for room temperature �ee: Rs. 1,57,500
black chromium plating bath formulation
M/s Bhavasar Solar Solutions
Royalty: Rs.12/mtr sq
03.02.2003 Supply of know how – process for room temperature �ee: Rs. 1,57,500
black chromium plating bath formulation
M/s Sunrise Solar Pvt. Ltd.
Royalty: Rs.12/mtr sq
Table 8
Memorandum of Understanding
Date of signing Industry Name and Technology
agreement
27.11.2002 NAL and Y P Sales & Marketing, U.S Relations
HANSA stretched (4 seater version)
01.12.2002 NAL and Kshema Technologies Limited
Software development for flight data analysis and simulation
09.12.2002 NAL and Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp
Research agreement
20-12-2002 NAL and ADRDE
Research and development of lighter than air technologies
20.01.2003 NAL and Macmet India Limited
�ixed base SARAS flight simulator
13.02.2003 NAL and Globe Agencies
Licence to market, install and maintain the AVRA and its variants
06.03.2003 NAL and Sangeeth-Group of Companies
Development of medium–scale, low cost, indigenous, horizontal – axis wind turbine
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A familiarisation programme for the
new recruits to NAL was designed
and conducted in July 2002 and
January 2003. This programme
provided a glimpse of the activities at
NAL and its important projects.
In the areas of technology marketing
and business development, Technical
Secretariat took proactive steps and
as a result, three license agreements
(Table 7) and seven MoUs (Table 8)
were signed. Also, Rs. 11.4 lakhs
was earned by way of technical
services. Regarding the IP activities
of NAL, TS took an active role and
four patents were filed; four more
patents were actually granted (Table
9). Three copyrights and three design
patents were also registered (Table
10). TS has been responsible to
motivate scientists and engineers to
discuss the possibility of patenting
new innovations.
TS made elaborate arrangements to
participate in the Indian Science
Congress exhibition during 3-7
January 2003 and technical enquiries
were received from visitors to this
exhibition. NAL also participated in
the Aero India 2003 international
exhibition during 5-9 �ebruary 2003
which gave a good exposure to NAL
technologies.
The HRD programmes for the
laboratory included stipendiary
training programmes (about 100
beneficiaries), project training
programmes (401 students in 2002-
03; see �ig. 21), BITS PS-II
programmes and induction and
assessment of JR�s/SR�s. A computer
hardware, software and networking
training programme for SC/ST
candidates conducted by CSS was
coordinated by TS. 20 candidates
participated in the programme
designed to help them find suitable
jobs. As a part of the HRD training
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�ig. 21 Break-up of NAL's
Divisions involved in training over
400 BE/MCA/M.Sc. students.
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Table 9
List of patents finalised and sent to CSIR for filing during 2002-2003 (●)
and patents actually granted in 2002-2003 (❍)
● Novel Device using shape memory and super elastic alloys for effecting
and controlling the swiveling movement
Mr G N Dayananda, Mr V Shankar, Mr M Subba Rao – ST, ACD
● An improved process relating to the thermal stability of solar selective
black chromium coating by alloy formation
Mr V K W Grips, Dr Indira Rajagopal, Dr K S Rajam – SED
● An improved process relating to the increased thermal stability and
better solar selectivity of the black chromium coating by short duration
thermal stabilization treatment
Mr V K W Grips, Dr Indira Rajagopal, Dr K S Rajam – SED
● A process for the preparation of silica coating on metal
Dr Prasanta Kumar Panda – MT
❍❍❍ A foil journal bearing having straight foils useful for providing support
for high speed rotors and a process for the fabrication of the said bearing
Dr S Ramamurthy – TS, Mr V Rangarajan , Mr S Siddalingappa – PR –
(European, Japanese and Indian patents)
❍ An improved process for the preparation of silicon nitride in the form of
powders and whiskers
Dr P S Gopalakrishnan, Mr P S Lakshminarasimham – MT
Table 10
List of copyrights sent to CSIR for filing during 2002-2003
● Moving target tracking filter and multisensor data fusion
Dr J R Raol, Dr Girija – �MCD
● �light analysis simulation tool (�AST)
Dr Padma Madhuranath
● Intellectual property – management and modes of protection
Dr S Rama Murthy – TS and Mr N Kumar – CSS
List of designs sent to CSIR for filing during 2002-2003
● Multipoint temperature sensing rake
● Rotating probe traversing mechanism – type 1
● Rotating probe traversing mechanism – type 2

ñ �ig. 22 Revenue and expenditure patterns at ñ �ig. 23 2403 guests stayed at the NAL's Guest
the NAL Guest House over the years. In 2002-03, NAL
earned Rs.2.54 lakhs and spent Rs.1.12 lakhs.
House in 2002-2003.
programmes, about Rs. 12 lakhs was
spent for deputing 470 staff members
from different Divisions for various
conferences, seminars and workshops.
The CSIR Programme on Youth
for Leadership in Science (CPYLS)
conducted for encouraging young
students at the matriculation level to
take up science studies was well
attended with 36 students along with
their parents/teachers participating
in the two-day programme.
The excellent support by way of
hospitality services towards boarding
and lodging arrangements for conferences
and seminars at NAL's Guest
House continued to add to the reputation
of the laboratory. Complete
support towards organisation of
various meetings and seminars in the
different conference halls and the
auditorium of the laboratory was also
rendered.
The revenue earned by the guest
house in 2002-03 is about Rs. 2.54
lakhs (�ig. 22) and the number of
guests who stayed is about 2400
(�ig. 23).
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