National Institute of Nutrition labs to be opened to public on Oct 18

Hyderabad: The city-based ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition is conducting an Open Day on Friday. The institute will open its doors for the public to visit its laboratories and interact with the scientists.

On the Open Day a number of specialty divisions including biochemistry, cell, and molecular biology, clinical, public health and sports nutrition will be thrown open to people. The visitors can also benefit from a few nutrition tests which will be conducted for free.

"Our aim is to attract students, children, and of course the general public to inform them of nutrition and its importance in entire life and also in nation-building. This will be a great opportunity even for our scientists to share their knowledge directly with people," said Dr R Hemalatha, Director NIN

The Open Day is being organised in accordance with the directives of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, to open up Science Institutes to the public and promote public interaction.