Let The Festival Of Innovations In Our Country Spread Far And Wide, Says President

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Innovation and Incubation Centre at IIT, Jodhpur today (July 10, 2013).

Speaking on the occasion, the President called upon the faculty and students of IIT Jodhpur to search, spread, sense and celebrate innovations in the region and said let the festival of innovations in our country spread far and wide.

The President congratulated the IIT Jodhpur for this pioneering initiative aimed at linking the creativity and innovativeness prevalent at the grassroots to the formal education system. He said this linkage must be strengthened to enable the innovators convert their ideas and innovations into marketable products. He said he was happy to know that IIT Jodhpur is working in collaboration with the State Government and has taken up the Rajasthan Vidyarthi Initiative. 13 teams from engineering colleges have been selected through competition for funding and incubation to develop low cost hardware solutions for health monitoring of women and children. He was hopeful of this framework promoting more innovations in social entrepreneurship.

This release issued at 1635 hrs