CENTRAL SALT AND MARINE CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CSMCRI)

About:

• Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute (CSMCRI) is a laboratory under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
  
  
• Its mandate is research on the production and utilization of salt.
  
  
• It was inaugurated by Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1954.
  
  
• It is located at Bhavnagar, in Gujarat.
  
  

Recent news:

• The CSMCRI has developed a mobile Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant for supplying drinking water to natural calamity-hit areas. The unit fitted to a bus can produce 3,000 litres of potable water an hour at an operating cost of just 60 paise a litre.
  
  
• The Kerala Water Authority has arranged to supply the treated water in affected areas of Central Kerala where drinking water scarcity is at its worst.