MAHENDERGARH, 02.07.24-Department of Science and Technology (DST) under Science and Heritage Research Initiative (SHRI) cell has sanctioned funding for Rs. 94 lakhs (approximately) to undertake research on “Millets” under International Year of Millets -2023 in consortium mode wherein three premier institutes namely; Central University of Haryana, NIFTEM-T and Jamia Hamdard are involved.

The Vice -Chancellor Prof. Tankeshwar Kumar and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sushma Yadav, congratulated the project team for receiving the research grant from DST, SHRI Cell and said that it will definitely boost the research activities in the university and provide the sustainable solutions for the management of non-communicable diseases among vulnerable section of the society. Prof. Sunil Kumar, Registrar; Prof. Pawan Kumar Sharma, Dean Research; Prof. Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Dean, SIAS and Prof. Kanti Prakash Sharma, Head, Nutrition Biology also congratulated the project team.
The DST has sanctioned the Research and Development project for the year 2023-24 entitled “Development of millets-based food products: Optimization, characterization and validation” to Department of Nutrition Biology, CUH. Dr. Anita Kumari, Assistant Professor is Principal Investigator and Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Associate Professor is Co-Principal Investigator of the project. The mandate of the funding agency is to play a pivotal role among young scientists to pursue innovative research ideas which have direct impact on the society at a large scale. The mandate of the sanctioned project is also to make collective efforts for the development of millets-based food products, its nutritional characterization and validation of developed products via. in-vitro, ex-vivo, and in-vivo studies. The project highlights involve dissemination of the developed technology among local population through on and off-campus trainings which will aid for skill development, employment generation and popularization of millets for inclusion in regular diet for the management of non-communicable diseases.