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The 6th RISE Conclave was held on 6-7 September 2026 at CSIR-IICB, Salt Lake, Kolkata, organised jointly by four CSIR laboratories on the theme 'Driving Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Viksit Bharat 2047'.
It produced eight MoUs, four technology transfers, two product launches and one facility inauguration, with around 150 startups participating.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said 50-60 per cent of India's startups are outside the metros and asked scientific institutions to reach Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities.
At an industry interaction he urged that commercial partners be attached to a laboratory project from day one, and offered a government-facilitated common R&D platform for the foundry and steel sectors.
Industry asks centred on critical minerals — rare-earth extraction, permanent magnets, recycling, lithium beneficiation and recovery of vanadium and titanium.
India's largest publicly funded R&D network, running 37 laboratories under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; the Prime Minister is its ex-officio President. Established 26 September 1942.
Biomedical and drug-discovery laboratory; the conclave venue and the 'Medicine' arm of 4M. Founded 1935 as the Indian Institute of Experimental Medicine, brought under CSIR in 1956 and renamed in 1982.
Glass, ceramics, refractories, optical fibre and biomaterials research — the 'Materials' arm; opened 26 August 1950 and among CSIR's earliest national laboratories.
Mechanical engineering, machinery and sanitation technologies — the 'Machines' arm; established 26 February 1958.
Mineral processing and materials technology — the 'Minerals' arm; set up on 13 April 1964 as Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar and renamed IMMT in 2007.
Apex body giving strategic direction to research, innovation and entrepreneurship in the natural sciences, engineering, environmental and earth sciences, health and agriculture, recommended by the National Education Policy, 2020.
Key: Created by the ANRF Act, 2023 (assented 15 August 2023, commenced 1 December 2023) with Rs 50,000 crore for 2023-28. The Prime Minister is ex-officio President of the Board; the Union Ministers of Science & Technology and of Education are Vice-Presidents; the Executive Council is chaired by the Principal Scientific Adviser.
Draw private capital into high-risk, high-reward R&D in strategic and sunrise sectors by closing the financing gap that deters private research investment.
Key: Rs 1 lakh crore corpus cleared by the Cabinet on 1 July 2025, channelled to ANRF as a 50-year interest-free loan and lent onward at low or nil interest for long tenures; ANRF's Executive Council frames guidelines, picks fund managers and identifies focus sectors.
Secure critical minerals through domestic exploration, overseas acquisition, recycling and value-chain R&D, cutting import dependence — the policy backdrop to the conclave's rare-earth, lithium, vanadium and titanium discussions.
Key: Administered by the Ministry of Mines, launched January 2025 with a Rs 16,300 crore outlay for 2024-25 to 2030-31.
The Minister linked CSIR laboratories with IIT Kharagpur, IISER Kolkata, NIT Durgapur and Atal Tinkering Labs, alongside networks of the Department of Biotechnology, DST, Department of Atomic Energy and Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Space, nuclear energy and biotechnology have been opened to industry, which is what makes startup-led technology transfer from national laboratories commercially possible.
The government offered to host, not fund-and-own, a shared R&D facility for the foundry and steel industries — an industry-articulated, government-facilitated model.
GS Paper 3 > Science & Technology > Indigenisation of Technology and Developing New Technology
General Awareness > Science and Institutions
What is the aim of the programme 'Unnat Bharat Abhiyan'?
Answer: Connecting institutions of higher education with local communities to address development challenges through appropriate technologies.
CSIR's Research, Industry, Start-up and Entrepreneurship conclave, moved city to city to link laboratories with industry and startups; the 2026 edition was the sixth, at Kolkata.
Minerals, Medicine, Materials and Machines — the four complementary strengths represented by CSIR-IMMT, CSIR-IICB, CSIR-CGCRI and CSIR-CMERI.
Moving a laboratory technology through transfer, licensing and commercialisation into a marketable product, the stated purpose of the conclave.