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FARIDABAD: Union Science & Technology Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh has asked the State and Union Territory Science Ministers to adopt the Centre’s best technology practices in governance and infrastructure development.
Addressing in an interactive session of Science Ministers from different States and Union Territories during the ongoing 4-day “India International Science Festival” , Dr Jitendra Singh said, in the last ten years, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Government has extensively used technology in good governance practices, flagship programmes such as infrastructure development, digital healthcare, digital education, PM Gati Shakti, DBT & SVAMITVA.
“While some States are proactively emulating the Center’s integrated approach, other States are lagging behind or slow in adopting the Best Practices,” he said.
The Minister called upon the State Science Ministers to appoint a nodal officer to keep close liaison with the CSIR and other Central Government supported R&D institutions.
“States and UTs can hold frequent interactions with the 37 CSIR laboratories spread across the country and 14 Institutions under the DBT to determine areas where the research projects can be used at various locations in the States and in promoting more Startups,” said Dr Jitendra, noting that most states are not able to keep liaison with these institutes.
Dr Jitendra said, the success of Aroma Mission and Purple Revolution in J&K has resulted in over 3,000 StartUps engaged in Lavender cultivation alone. ArmoaMission is now being emulated in the North-Eastern Region while Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have sent delegations to J&K to study the Lavender cultivation model and have evinced interest in emulating the Aroma Mission, he said.
“It is very important to take a leaf out of best practices like the Aroma Mission which has spread from J&K to North East, the cleanliness drive across the coastal region, lake cleaning learnt from J&K & implemented in Manipur Loktak lake and connect similar missing links,” he said.