Agartala, Apr 02, 2023, TRIPURA TIMES Desk

Disruptive Science is under the lens of experts of G20 countries to encourage innovative practices for inclusive and sustainable development. Under the initiatives, experts are looking for ‘innovation that significantly alters the way consumers, industries, or businesses operate'.

According to Investopedia, a disruptive technology – that the Disruptive Science in this context is looking for - sweeps away the systems or habits and replaces those because it has attributes that are recognizably superior.     

The use of Disruptive Science is set to be the new norm in near future as India – the President of G20 – aims at making the Group an “inclusive, ambitious, decisive and action-oriented” platform, the agenda of the G20 Science Summit – referred as S20 – reflects the same principle in planning and use of the science for development.

Within the ambit of the central theme, “Disruptive Science for Innovative and Sustainable Development,” deliberations on energy, health and connecting science with society and culture will be made by national and foreign delegates in three S20 Science meetings.

Agartala will host deliberations on ‘Clean Energy for a Greener Future’ – with a focus on Hydrogen Energy and Energy from Ocean.

Even as the topics are nothing new and several countries or organizations are using such sources for energy, the objective of the S20 deliberation is to ignite young minds to dive into the realm of future-Gen-suitable technologies in view of the growing threat of Climate change and unequal availability of energy.  

Putting forward a unique term – ‘energy poverty’, S20 India’s website says, “We wish to encourage common sharing space, openness in terms of intellectual property, and technology transfer can help address energy poverty and create more opportunities for clean and green hydrogen energy, thereby addressing climate change problems in general …. Through the meeting, we aim to prepare a framework to facilitate innovative research in environmentally responsible technology.”

Tripura, even as a tiny hilly State, is playing a crucial role in promoting clean energy. ONGC Tripura Power project at Palatana is supplying clean power to the national transmission grid to reduce the supply of power generated from coal-based plants. CNG facilities remarkably reduced reliance on fossil fuels. 

However, the present-day sources of clean power or clean fuel are exhaustible – so, not fit for long-run sustainable and inclusive development.   

In this background, the deliberations in the Agartala S20 meeting will open the stage for the scientific fraternity of the State including the students of the NIT, TIT etc to transform their present-day ‘Smart material’ knowhow into ‘meta material’ and come out with socio-economically viable disruptive technological innovations.