Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta Elected as a Member of International Committee for Weight and Measures: Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta, Director of the CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), New Delhi, has been elected to the International Committee for Weights and Measures (ICWM) (CIPM). The 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) meeting was held in Paris, France, from November 15 to 18, 2022. Prof. Achanta is among the 18 members elected from different countries and he is the 7th Indian to be elected to the CIPM. The first Indian to be elected as a member of CIPM was Dr. K.S. Krishnan, the founder Director of CSIR-NPL. Prof. E. S. R. Gopal, then Director of CSIR-NPL, was the last Indian to be chosen (1991-1997).
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About the International Committee for Weights and Measures:
CGPM now has 64 members and meets every 4 years at the International Bureau of Weight and Measure (BIPM) in France. The CIPM is a supreme international committee which functions under the authority of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM).
The CGPM was founded in accordance with the Meter Convention, which was signed on May 20, 1875 in Paris. It is responsible for development and implementation of International Systems of Unites, universally abbreviated as SI. On January 4, 1947, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, created the CSIR-NPL, the National Metrology Institute (NMI) of India. The Government of India enacted the “Standards of Weights and Measures Act” for the first time in 1956 to ensure that every citizen has access to uniform standards of weights and measures based on the SI units. India became the member of the CGPM in 1957.
