Advance Calibration Laboratory, 500 kWp Solar Rooftop inaugurated at NCB Ballabgarh
Calibration facilities will cater to the quality assurance efforts of cement & construction industry, PSUs, laboratories of CSIR, state & central governments.
Joint Secretary, DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and
Industry, Sanjiv Singh, in presence of MK Singhania, Joint Managing Director
& CEO, JK Cement Ltd. and Dr LP Singh, Director General, NCB inaugurated
the Advance Calibration Laboratory and 500 kWp Solar Roof Top at National
Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB) Ballabgarh on 23rd December
2024 on the occasion of 62nd NCB Day celebrations. On the occasion, a
Hindi magazine “NCB Darpan” was also released.
Singh visited the Advance Calibration Laboratory
and interacted with Scientists & Engineers of NCB. The laboratories house
state-of-the-art facilities for the calibration of Force Proving instruments (2
to 200 kN), Mass (1 mg to 150 kg) & Volume and Pressure (1.5 to 1400 bar).
The force calibration system at NCB is one of the first facilities in the field
of cement and construction Industry. These calibration facilities will cater to
the quality assurance efforts of cement & construction industry, PSUs,
laboratories of CSIR, state & central governments.
Under the aegis of DPIIT, NCB has installed 500 kWp
Solar Roof Top at its Ballabgarh campus. This will help in reduction of CO2 emissions
and electricity bills. NCB is also assessing the carbon footprint of its
Ballabgarh campus through its incubated StartUp “Zero Carbon One”. Zero carbon
is also helping NCB to become Net Zero CO2 campus.
The Government of India has approved the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana on 29th February,
2024 to increase the share of solar rooftop capacity. Under this Scheme, all
Government Buildings Roof tops was targeted to be saturated with the Rooftop
Solar to the extent that is technically feasible by 31st December
2025.
Sanjiv Singh, Chief Guest on the occasion appreciated NCB for its
R&D and technical activities. He appreciated NCB for establishing a World
Class Facility for Calibration. Shri Sanjiv desired that the Centre of
Excellence for Building Materials should be established at NCB with the help of
DPIIT and all stakeholders. He emphasized that Cement sector had been
contributing towards the growth and development in many ways such as providing
adequate quality cement for national infra and housing needs, providing jobs to
lakhs of people directly and indirectly, contributing to national
exchequer.
Dr LP Singh, Director General NCB informed that 500
kWp Solar Roof Top has been installed under the aegis of DPIIT to support the
PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana. Dr Singh highlighted that the Advance
Calibration Laboratory will cater to Labs of cement and construction industry.
He highlighted NCB activities in the field of decarbonisation, waste utilisation
and circular economy, carbon capture and utilisation, Education and training,
Artificial Intelligence etc.
National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB) is an apex
Research and Development organisation under the administrative control of
DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. NCB is
dedicated to research, technology development & transfer, education &
industrial services for cement, allied building materials and construction
industries.