New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Union Minister for Science and Technology, Jitendra Singh, officially launched the "Srjanam" biomedical waste conversion rig at AIIMS, New Delhi, on Monday, marking a significant milestone in the management of biomedical waste.

Srjanam is a waste management system developed by CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram.

"It offers a cost effective, greener alternative to existing technologies for biomedical waste disposal, including incineration," read a statement by the union minister's office.

The fully automated system dissects and nullifies all hazardous biomedical wastes like blood, urine, and sputum, as well as laboratory disposables, without the use of costliest and energy-intensive incinerators, making the disposal of...