Launched in 2011 under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) was designed to help students from Jammu and Kashmir and, from 2019, to students from Ladakh as well, access quality higher education across India.
National Initiative for Design Innovation is a scheme set up by the Department of Higher Studies, Ministry of Education, in March 2014. The main aim of the scheme is to promote innovation, invention and design to contribute to improving the standard of living. Twenty DESIGN INNOVATION CENTERS (DIC), were set up in Government Institutions like IITs, NITs, IIITs and IISc and other State Institutions throughout the country, as a part of the Scheme.
CRTDHs are Common Research & Technology Development Hubs established by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), under India’s Ministry of Science & Technology. Launched in 2014–15, these CRTDH hubs aim to support micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) by providing them access to R&D facilities, prototyping, skill development, and innovation infrastructure—resources they often lack.
Policy UpdateHarshita Maheshwari Background According to the 2018 Sample Registration System Statistical Report, India generally had a high share of young people, with 25.9% under the age of 14, 66% in the working-age group of 15-59, and only 8.1% over…
Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) was launched in 2015 by the erstwhile Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani at IIT Gandhinagar.
The visionary scheme for rural India, SVAMITVA, was launched on 24 April 2021 (also National Panchayati Raj Day). Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages Abadi and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas).
The Ministry of Earth and Sciences(MoEs), launched in 2006, filters multiple scientific disciplines under an umbrella approach, delivering coordinated services for weather, ocean, climate and any geophysical phenomena foreseen. The nation's weather and climate services are operationalised through agencies such as The National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Indian Meteorological Department(IMD), and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).