Science and Technology basic prerequisite for self-reliant India: Jitendra Singh

New Delhi : Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said Science and Technology is a basic prerequisite for self-reliant India, and the country is going to play a big role in the scientific world through coordinated Centre-state efforts.

The Science and Technology Minister emphasised on the need to reach out to masses and identify young researchers and women scientists with potential along with entrepreneurs and startups that can bring new ideas to realization, through continued co-ordination between centre and states to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.

Dr Singh while inaugurating a year-long ‘Vigyan Utsav’ organised with the participation of all the Science and Technology councils to celebrate ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ stated that Science and Technology is key to achieve Prime Minister Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat, and state science and technology councils have a crucial role to play.

Referring to the Prime Minister’s 75th Independence Day speech stressing that the celebration

of 75 years of India’s independence should not be limited to just one ceremony, Dr Singh said the

groundwork must be laid to move forward with new resolutions.

‘Starting from here, the entire journey of the next 25 years, when we celebrate the centenary of

Indian independence, marks the Amrit period of creation of a new India, and the roadmap for

the next 25 years will be determined by scientific and technological innovations in all walks of life,’ he added.