21. COMMERCIAL WINDOWS OUTSIDE INDIA

CSIR shall selectively establish its overseas nodal points / centers not only to serve as overseas S&T and commercial windows of CSIR, but equally importantly to serve as powerful antenna to track down global S&T developments and breakthroughs in the real time. Initially two or three centers may be opened and funded from the earnings of the CSIR, and later made self sustaining say within a period of about five years.