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NEW DELHI: Union Minister, Dr. Jitendra Singh on Monday launched “YUVA ” portal, which will help in connecting and identifying potential young StartUps.
While launching the NPL’s “One Week -One Lab” programme in New Delhi, Dr Jitendra again underlined that unless the stakeholders’ participation is broad-based, particularly the Industry.
The StartUps may not remain sustainable for want of proper industry mapping and right aptitude, he cautioned.
Highlighting India’s global excellence in technology, innovation and StartUps, Dr Jitendra said each of the 37 CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) Labs spread across the country is dedicated to a different exclusive area of work and the “on week, one lab” campaign will offer an opportunity to each one of them to showcase the work being done by it so that others can avail of it and stakeholders learn about it.
Dr Jitendra Singh also hailed the launching of the astronomy lab that has come up in Haryana’s Karnal and said it will provide level-playing field to all and even Divyangs can excel in various forms of skill, art and craft. He said, the facility in different languages to start with will enable hearing impaired students to learn about sun, moon and stars, apart from simple to complex concepts of space.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, with today’s program, in which all labs of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will reach out to public to not only showcase their technologies but also to ignite the minds of young innovators, students, start-ups, academia, and industry to look for opportunities through deep tech ventures.
Dr Achanta said 180 schools of Delhi -NCR were exposed to NPL to labs for different activities and more and more schools will be thrown open for such open interactions in future.
For more details about CSIR-NPL and its “One Week One Lab” programme, one can visit NPL website: https://www.nplindia.org/. To participate, the interested may register for the event.