CSIR and DAKSHIN at RIS sign a Letter of Association for Global South science cooperation

3 November 2026

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed a Letter of Association (LoA) with DAKSHIN, the Global South Centre of Excellence. DAKSHIN is housed at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi think tank. The partnership will offer CSIR's ready-to-deploy, affordable technologies to developing countries of the Global South. Its aims include joint policy studies, scaling up development projects, capacity building and sharing best practices. RIS Director General Professor Sachin Kumar Sharma named healthcare, infrastructure, agriculture, the blue economy and the digital economy as areas for cooperation. Dr. Rama Swami Bansal, head of the international science and technology affairs wing of CSIR, spoke for the council. The tie-up is framed as South-South cooperation towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).