World-Class Environmental and Solar Metrology Facilities at CSIR-NPL
On 5th January 2026, Union Minister inaugurated the world’s second National Environmental Standard Laboratory (NESL) and the fifth National Primary Standard Facility for Solar Cell Calibration (NPF-SCC) at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during its 80th Foundation Day.
- The National Environmental Standard Laboratory will strengthen environmental governance by enabling accurate, India-specific calibration of air pollution monitoring instruments, supporting initiatives such as the National Clean Air Programme.
- The Solar Cell Calibration Facility, developed in collaboration with PTB Germany, places India in an elite global group in solar metrology with a best-in-class uncertainty level of 0.35%.
- The facility will reduce dependence on foreign certification agencies, save ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 Nitrofurans
- 2 Cyber Slavery
- 3 Ghost Pairing
- 4 GPS Spoofing
- 5 Navy Receives Taragiri Stealth Frigate
- 6 Hansa-3 (NG) Trainer Aircraft & SARAS Mk-2 Programme
- 7 Key Gene Mutations Driving Oral Cancer in Women Identified
- 8 Life-Essential Sugars Detected in Asteroid Bennu Samples
- 9 Niger Eliminates Onchocerciasis
- 10 JWST Detects Oldest Supernova Ever Observed
- 1 Aditya-L1 Provides New Insights on Earth’s Magnetic Shield
- 2 Why a ‘Cosmic Dust Particle’ Hits Earth Every 16 Minutes
- 3 India’s First Commercial Earth Observation Satellite Constellation
- 4 Salvo Test of ‘Pralay’ Missile
- 5 DRDO Successfully Tests Indigenous MPATGM
- 6 Indian Army Signs Deal for ‘Suryastra’
- 7 LR-AShM at Republic Day Parade
- 8 DRDO’s Long-Duration Scramjet Test
- 9 BSL-4 Containment Facility in Gandhinagar
- 10 China’s EAST Reactor Breaks a Key Fusion Barrier
- 11 Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Technology: How It Works and Why It Matters
- 12 ISRO’s PSLV-C62 Mission Suffers Anomaly
- 13 AI Tool ‘Disobind’ to Decode Elusive Protein Interactions
- 14 Dhruv-NG Helicopter
- 15 India Ranks 8th Globally in WHO Pharmacovigilance Contributions
- 16 IIT Madras Develops Ramjet-Powered Artillery Shells
- 17 PARAM Shakti Supercomputer Commissioned at IIT Madras
- 18 Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi)
- 19 Wolf Supermoon
- 20 Mpemba Effect
- 21 White Dwarf System
