SHILLONG: Discovering an innovation space with out of the box ideas to launch India into a dominant position in the world was an ardent call made at the International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Mechanical Engineering (IC-RIDME) at the State Convention Center, on Thursday.
Speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural session of the programme organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya, Director of IIT (Guwahati), Gautam Biswas urged the researchers and engineers to be innovative and to think out of the box to make India at par with other parts of the world.
Guest of honour, NEEPCO CMD AG West Kharkongor, said there has to be an engineering solution as he spoke about the engineering challenge faced by NEEPCO in the 600 MW Kameng Hydro Electric Project which was due to commission within March 2019 as there were problems in the penstock.
He later told The Shillong Times that there has been a leakage in the penstock and added, “We are facing a challenge in repairing the penstock as the pressure is high. It is not simple repair work because it is very intricate.”
Kharkongor said NEEPCO need to interact with the academicians to find a permanent solution to the problem.
IC-RIDME seeks to provide a platform for researchers, academicians, scientists, practicing engineers and industry professionals to showcase and deliver their research work, studies, contributions, developments and new concepts related to the field of mechanical engineering.