IISc Bengaluru Named Centre of Excellence for Critical Minerals Research

Imagine India needs special rocks and metals to make important things like phones, clean energy tech, and even parts for space missions.

Many of these special materials are brought in from other countries.

So, the Indian government has picked a top science school, IISc in Bengaluru, to be a special research center.

This center will figure out how to find these important minerals in India, how to take them out of the ground, how to clean them up, and even how to reuse them when they are old.

They will build special small factories to test new ways to do this, using machines made in India.

This way, India can make more of these crucial materials at home, instead of relying on other countries.