Mohali-A two-day National Conference, jointly organized by the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Aryans College of Engineering, Rajpura, Near Chandigarh on “Advance Materials, Rare Earth & Critical Minerals ” was concluded in Urdu & English Languages under AICTE-VAANI (Vibrant Advocacy For Advancement and Nurturing of Indian Languages) scheme. 12 seminars conducted and concluded.
Dr JK Saini, Director, Aryans College of Engineering addressed all on the importance of this conference. The 12 session including inauguration & concluding were addressed by various eminent resource peraons including Dr Navdeep Parashar; Shivani, SVIET, Banur; Dr Gaurav; Dr Arif, CGC Landran & Jhanjheri; Dr Varinder Singh, Gulzar Group. About 80 participants from various educational institutes attended this conference.
Sessions focused on various topics. It was comcluded that Advanced materials, critical minerals & metals are important areas that have the potential to transform the economy of the country across sectors and therefore, it is important to build our own supply chain especially in materials. In the years ahead, ensuring reliable supplies of critical minerals will be key to the security of energy systems. The risks were also discussed. Additionally it was also discussed that, the over-concentration in critical minerals markets today is unprecedented compared with any other major commodity we rely on in the modern world.