India's first large Cold Chain plant is opened by KTR in Hyderabad.

K. T. Rama Rao, the Minister of IT and Industries for Telangana, opened the "Telangana Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain" to improve food and health security, give farmers more power, and increase exports.

The Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain is a new way to speed up the use of energy-efficient refrigerators in India's food and vaccine supply chains and encourage innovations in sustainable cooling. The University of Birmingham will be a knowledge partner and will help turn the center into a modern research and innovation hub that will help Telangana and India find cooling and cold-chain solutions that meet their needs and are fair for everyone.

Professor Toby Peters, who runs the University of Birmingham's Center for Sustainable Cooling, and Gareth Owens, who is the British government's Deputy High Commissioner in Hyderabad, spoke out. M. Bikshapathi, Chairman, TSTPC, Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal Secretary (IT and Industries), and others were there.

The CoE is India's first project of its kind. It will have the most up-to-date tools and will be a one-stop answer for all problems in the country's cold chain environment. It will come up with and show off cooling technologies and solutions that meet the needs of the state and could be used on a larger scale to help people all over the world. Minister thanked the University of Birmingham for picking Hyderabad and thanked business partners like Carrier for backing the effort.