National Innovation Movement- Improve the Living Conditions 08/07/2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau

National Innovation Movement

(Vice President’s Secretariat)

WHAT

The Vice President of India has called for creating a National Innovation Movement.

The movement will promote path-breaking ideas and innovations that improve the living conditions of the people and generate wealth.

 

HIGHLIGHTS

  • He urged the young scientists to come up with simple, low-cost but hi-tech innovations.
  • Innovations to make people’s lives more comfortable and address challenges such as pollution, climate change, diseases, not-so-profitable agriculture, and low-efficiency industrial processes.
  • Stepping up in Bio-Technology to make agriculture more viable and sustainable.
  • There is a need to focus on allied sectors like animal husbandry, dairy, fisheries and other vital areas such as health, nutrition, environment, and biodiversity conservation.
  • Every school and college should set up innovation departments and promote the culture of entrepreneurship.
  • Schemes like Digital India and Atal Tinkering Labs is the need of the hour to emerge India as a global innovation hub.
  • Reorienting education system to foster out-of-box thinking and problem-solving approach.
  • The government has identified 117 Aspirational Districts for their overall transformation.

 

Source: PIB

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