Narasimhan

NFTDC

NON FERROUS MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE An Autonomous R&D centre under the aegis of Ministry of Mines. Govt. of INDIA. NFTDC undertakes sponsored R&D projects involving the scientific know-why as well as technical Know-how, thus forming the continuous research development linkage from concept to eventual transfer for commercial production. NFTDC is an autonomous and self financing R & D institution under the aegis of Ministry of Mines, Govt. of INDIA, dedicated to the development of Advanced Materials + Innovative Processes on the one hand and Engineering Design + Analysis and Electronics + Instrumentation + Control leading to component and systems development & integration on the other. NFTDC is an unique Technology Centre, in that it is a multi disciplinary knowledge domain based institution which enables the centre to undertake complex technology development endeavours as interdisciplinary projects involving both knowledge creation (scientific know-why) and knowledge integration (technical knowhow). NFTDC's uniqueness also stems from its three genetic characteristics, namely (i) self financing nature, (ii) its multi disciplinary all executive Human resource and (iii) R & D policy of applied R & D as contract / sponsored research oriented to needs of user agencies.