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KSCSTE Quotations invited for the Supply and Installation of Fire Extinguishers at Sasthra Bhavan, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram (15.11.2025, 2.30 p.m.)

Seminar “Eugene Garfield and the Science of Scientific Communication on 22 October 2025, 10:30 a.m.@ Sathra Bhavan

A seminar titled “Eugene Garfield and the Science of Scientific Communication” was held on 22nd October 2025 at Anna Mani Hall, KSCSTE, to celebrate a monumental legacy—the 100th birth anniversary of Eugene Garfield, the visionary father of citation indexing and a global influencer in bibliometrics and scientific communication. The event was inaugurated by Dr. E. Shaji, Director of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell, University of Kerala and the session was chaired by the Dr. K P Vijaya Kumar, Former Head of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala.  

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Integrated Rural Technology Centre (IRTC)

Integrated Rural Technology Centre (IRTC) is an autonomous research and development institution founded by the Kerala SastraSahithyaParishad (the pioneering People’s Science Movement) and a grant-in-aid institution of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE). IRTC envisions the upliftment of the underprivileged sections of the society through knowledge sharing, appropriate technology transfer and skill development. The institution intervenes to meet the new age challenges and find sustainable solutions in the sector of solid waste management, watershed development, energy management, local planning and livelihood. IRTC has played a pivotal role in handholding the local self-government institutions across the state through their project implementation and consultancy support for preparing Detailed Project Reports for various developmental programmes. IRTC has extensively involved in research, innovation and extension activities to empower the marginalized communities across the state. It has also marked its footprints in the areas of women and child development with the collaboration of national and international agencies such as WHO, UNICEF and UNDP.  

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M S Swaminathan Research Foundation- Community Agrobiodiversity Centre ( MSSRF-CAbC)

Community Agrobiodiversity Centre (CAbC) was established in 1997 at Wayanad district of Kerala, as one of the regional centres of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India. The Centre was established to promote community conservation systems of rural and tribal people through research, extension and advocacy. Centre works in partnership with rural and farming communities for sustainable agricultural and rural development. The activities are designed in such a way that promotes a pro-nature, pro-poor, pro-woman and a pro-livelihood orientation to technology development and dissemination. Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) has recognized the Community Agrobiodiversity Centre of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation as one of the Grant-in-Aid institutions. The support was extended mainly to strengthen the agrobiodiversity initiatives of the Centre across Kerala state. This includes research and extension services for building models on the conservation and sustainable utilization of agro-bioresources of the State. The support for the Centre has confined under five different heads of accounts that are Community Agrobiodiversity, Wild Biodiversity, Climate Action towards adaptation, Sustainable Village Development and Community Knowledge & Skill development.

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