news bytes
“JIGYASA” - STUDENT-SCIENTIST
CONNECT PROGRAMME
LAUNCHED
Jigyasa, a
student-
scientist
connect
programme
was officially
launched by
the union government recently. The
Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR), has joined
hands with Kendriya Vidyalaya
Sangathan (KVS) to implement
this programme. The focus is on
connecting school students and
scientists so as to extend student’s
classroom learning with that
of a very well planned research
laboratory based learning.
Memorandum of Understanding
signing ceremony was held in the
presence of Dr Harsh Vardhan,
Minister of Science & Technology
and Mr Prakash Javadekar,
Minister of Human Resource
Development.
The “JIGYASA” would inculcate
the culture of inquisitiveness on
one hand and scientific temper
on the other, amongst the school
students and their teachers. The
100
BioVoiceNews | August 2017
Programme is expected to connect
1151 Kendriya Vidyalayas with 38
National Laboratories of CSIR
targeting 100,000 students and
nearly 1000 teachers annually.
DST ALLOCATED RS 15 CRORE
FOR UNIVERSITY INCUBATION
CENTRES
The 15
Technology
Business
Incubators
(TBI) have
been approved
by Human
Resources and Development
Ministry in collaboration with
Department of Science and
Technology (DST) in the year 2016.
This is across various centrally
funded technical institutions with
100 percent funding from DST.
The DST has also supported 93
Technology Business Incubators
and Science and Technology
Entrepreneurs Parks in various
universities/institutions. This
information was revealed by
the Minister of State (HRD), Dr
Mahendra Nath Pandey while
answering a question recently in the
Parliament.
The funding pattern followed by the