The Central government has broadbased the ‘Start up India, Stand up India’ initiative to encourage innovative ideas by people of various cross-sections, irrespective of their educational background, Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said. Inaugurating …
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Govt launches training programmes to create skilled manpower
In order to create skilled manpower in specialised sector, the Ministry of Science and Technology is launching training programmes linked to the industry. The training programme will be initiated by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an arm of the ministry, and it will train p…
To give fillip to startups government to double incubation centres
The government has embarked upon an ambitious project of doubling incubation centres in next 4-5 years to give innovation a boost. The Ministry of Science and Technology has also increased by a whopping 450 percent the budget for the start ups and innovation centric initiatives from Rs 40 crore t…
Solar power tree developed for generation of electricity
The Ministry of Science and Technology has come up with a ‘Solar Power Tree’, an innovative way to generate electricity using solar power in a limited space. Developed by the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur, a laboratory of the Council for Scientifi…
Govt. to sell low-cost medical kits
The government is ready to market several low-cost medical innovations, including home kits for measuring blood glucose, hemoglobin levels and real-time diagnosis of malaria and dengue, which have been developed by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in association with start-ups supported by t…