“I can truly say that [but] for Dr. Bhatnagar you could not have seen today the chain of national laboratories”, once said Nehru about the ‘Father of India’s Research Laboratories’. He was not wrong.
The experimental kits distributed by LIFE Labs were mostly made of plastic, and last year, at a team meeting, it was revealed that 700 kg of plastic waste was being generated by the organisation, every year.
Ranjini Srikantan, a student of Class 12, was surprised to learn about the advantages of green chemistry - both because there are so many and because she had been unaware about the field for so long. These are the reasons why she feels green chemistry is the future of chemistry.
Anil Kumar Singh, a 65-year-old Chemistry professor, finally got a gold medal for Inorganic Chemistry that he had been waiting for since the past 44 years. All thanks to his perseverance and an RTI query.