Vice President asks researchers to give you improvements to unravel farmers’ issues

The Vice President, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu at this time known as upon researchers and scientists to pay better consideration to agriculture and give you improvements to handle the issues confronted by farmers.

Talking on the on-line ARIIA-2020 (Atal Rating of Establishments on Innovation Achievements) Awards Ceremony at Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas at this time, Shri Naidu stated from offering well timed data on varied points to farmers to creating chilly storage services and supplying new applied sciences must be the main focus of innovators and researchers.

He harassed the necessity for stopping farmers’ exploitation by middlemen and making certain remunerative costs for his or her produce. He stated the AICTE, ICAR, NIRD and agriculture universities ought to work in unison to convey new improvements and applied sciences to farmers.

Emphasizing the necessity for India’s increased training system to play the position of an enabler and force-multiplier to drive Indian innovation and start-up ecosystem, the Vice President stated “Innovation should grow to be the heartbeat of training. Quest for excellence should grow to be the norm”.

Urging instructional establishments to reinvent themselves to create these important situations for innovation to thrive and creativity to blossom, Shri Naidu stated that our academic eco-system should consistently nurture the innate spirit of inquiry and modern problem-solving.

Expressing his happiness that the New Nationwide Schooling Coverage has made a variety of suggestions that may foster innovation, he stated “It has outlined a brand new imaginative and prescient that may vastly enhance the standard of educating and studying in addition to analysis”.

The Vice President stated the coverage lays nice emphasis on comprehension, crucial considering, evaluation and the enjoyment of discovering new aspects of the world of information. “It seeks to interrupt the silos and join completely different disciplines by way of multi-disciplinary studying. Establishing this connection between fragments of data and proof is actually important for innovation”, he harassed.

Shri Naidu known as for concerted efforts to inculcate the tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship amongst our college students to make them ‘out of the field’ thinkers, inventive downside solvers, entrepreneurs, and job creators fairly than job seekers..

Urging increased instructional establishments to redouble their efforts to maneuver up on this rating train, the Vice President stated India wants many extra establishments of excessive requirements to considerably alter the nation’s improvement trajectory. “We have to study from the very best on this planet and intention to be higher than the very best”, he harassed.

Recalling India’s illustrious historical past of improvements spanning a minimum of 20 centuries proper from the invention of “zero” and the decimal system by famend mathematicians like Pingala, Aryabhata and Brahmagupta, the Vice President identified that India was as soon as often called Vishwa Guru and college students from far-off international locations got here to check at our universities like Nalanda and Takshashila.

Shri Naidu stated that India should regain that mental management and as soon as once more emerge as a worldwide hub of studying and innovation.

Calling for tapping into the extremely gifted youth inhabitants brimming with new concepts, ardour for experimentation and willingness to forge a brand new path, Shri Naidu stated “It’s these younger folks learning in lots of our schools and universities who will outline what our nation’s future will likely be”.

Referring to Atal Rating of Establishments on Innovation Achievements, Shri Naidu described it as a serious step to acknowledge excellence in making a conducive surroundings for college students to innovate. “It’s the school rooms and the laboratories, the initiatives and the educational experiences that may alter the academic panorama of our nation. The important thing duty to make this dream come true lies with the educators and academic managers”, he added.

Touching upon Prime Minister, Shri Narendrabhai Modi’s name for a self-reliant India by way of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the Vice President noticed that self-reliance requires us to innovate, to hunt implementable options for improvement challenges and create a beneficial surroundings for experimentation.

Urging scientists and researchers to give you improvements and options, he suggested them to concentrate on making the lives of the folks extra comfy. “Science should even be used to make agriculture extra productive and create better wealth for farmers”, he added.

Schooling Minister , Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Minister of State, Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE, Shri Amit Khare, Secretary HE, MoE and Dr BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman, ARIIA Committee and Govt Chairman, CYIENT have been amongst these participated within the on-line occasion.

The next is the total textual content of the speech:

On the outset let me congratulate the Minister, MHRD Innovation Cell & AICTE for beginning ARIIA rating since final 12 months & for conducting the complete train regardless of the large disruption in our regular functioning this 12 months.

I’m additionally conscious of two particular hackathons carried out throughout this lockdown interval in on-line mode – Ideathon and Samadhan.

Pricey sisters and brothers,

Over the last 5 years, India has made appreciable progress within the discipline of innovation and entrepreneurship. At world stage, now we have moved up from 81^st place in 2015 to 52^nd place in 2019 in World Innovation Index rating.

It’s certainly a matter of nice satisfaction that now we have the three^rd largest start-up ecosystem on this planet at this time.

It’s heartening to see that the federal government has taken a variety of initiatives to inculcate the spirit of innovation amongst college students from a younger age. Over 2 million college students between grade 6^th to 12^th are working in additional than 5100 Atal Tinkering Labs established throughout the nation underneath the Atal Innovation Mission.

Innovation has at all times been the important thing defining characteristic of human progress.

Innovations, discoveries, inventive artwork works, architectural marvels and experimentation in numerous fields of human endeavour have enriched human lives.

India has its personal illustrious historical past of improvements spanning a minimum of twenty centuries proper from the invention of “zero”and the decimal system by famend mathematicians like Pingala, Aryabhata and Brahmagupta.

There was a time when India was often called Vishwa Guru and college students from far-off international locations got here to check at our universities. Nalanda, Takshashila, Vikramshila and Pushpagiri have been among the nice centres of studying.

We should regain that mental management.

We should as soon as once more emerge as a worldwide hub of studying and innovation.

We now have to faucet into the extremely gifted youth inhabitants which is brimming with new concepts, a ardour for experimentation and willingness to forge a brand new path.

It’s these younger folks learning in lots of our schools and universities who will outline what our nation’s future will likely be.

It’s these youths that want encouragement, facilitation and recognition. They have to be given the steerage and freedom to discover new frontiers.

Our academic establishments, particularly establishments of upper training should reinvent themselves to create these important situations for innovation to thrive, for creativity to blossom.

I’m joyful to notice that the New Nationwide Schooling Coverage has a pointy concentrate on this facet and has made a variety of suggestions that may foster innovation.

It has outlined a brand new imaginative and prescient that may vastly enhance the standard of educating and studying in addition to analysis.

Shifting away from rote studying, the coverage lays nice emphasis on comprehension, crucial considering, evaluation and the enjoyment of discovering new aspects of the world of information.

It seeks to interrupt the silos and join completely different disciplines by way of multi-disciplinary studying.

Establishing this connection between fragments of data and proof is actually important for innovation.

It’s this capability to query and search solutions that lies on the basis of innovation. It’s the childlike curiosity that may set off the inventive impulse.

Our academic eco-system should consistently nurture this innate spirit of inquiry and modern problem-solving.

Atal Rating of Establishments on Innovation Achievements is a serious step to acknowledge excellence in creating this conducive surroundings for college students to innovate.

Pricey sisters and brothers,

Rating establishments by way of a clear course of on sure key parameters provides a well-deserved recognition to the efforts of the academic leaders who’re managing these establishments and the transformational tutorial leaders who’re educating college students within the school rooms in addition to guiding them by way of the analysis course of.

I recognize that ‘Progressive Studying Strategies & Programs’ is among the parameters to calculate this Atal Rating.

It’s the school rooms and the laboratories, the initiatives and the educational experiences that may alter the academic panorama of our nation.

It’s the dream articulated within the Nationwide Schooling Coverage 2020.

The important thing duty to make this dream come true lies with the educators and academic managers.

Pricey sisters and brothers,

Tough occasions, just like the one we’re passing by way of due to the pandemic, can typically spur innovation and show our capability to transform challenges into alternatives. The Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi has rightly given a well timed imaginative and prescient of self-reliant India by way of his name for Atmanirbhar Bharat.

Self-reliance requires us to innovate, to hunt implementable options for improvement challenges and create a beneficial surroundings for experimentation.

India’s increased training system can and will play the position of an enabler and force-multiplier to drive Indian innovation and start-up ecosystem.

Better emphasis is being laid on constructing a information society by way of promotion of science, analysis and excellence. There must be concerted efforts to inculcate the tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship amongst our college students to make them ‘out of the field’ thinkers, inventive downside solvers, entrepreneurs, and job creators fairly than job seekers.The youth of the nation have to be motivated to hitch the developmental path extra aggressively, whereas our scientists and researchers should give you improvements and options. They need to concentrate on making the lives of the folks extra comfy. Science should even be used to make agriculture extra productive and create better wealth for farmers.

I’m glad the Ministry of Schooling has taken an enormous leap ahead with the formulation of a brand new training coverage. This will function a strong framework for instilling a brand new sense of path and a tradition of steady high quality enchancment in our establishments of upper studying.

Innovation should grow to be the heartbeat of training. Quest for excellence should grow to be the norm.

On the event of the end result announcement ceremony of Atal Rating of Establishments on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA), I congratulate all of the establishments which have secured high honours.  I might urge them to take care of the excessive requirements they’ve already established. I would love all different increased instructional establishments additionally to redouble their efforts to maneuver up on this rating train. India wants much more establishments to attain a excessive normal to considerably alter the nation’s improvement trajectory.

We have to study from the very best on this planet and intention to be higher than the very best.

I praise All India Council for Technical Schooling and Ministry’s Innovation Cell for planning thisinitiative and efficiently finishing two editions.

I’m joyful to see that there’s a appreciable enhance in participation of establishments on this 2^nd version as in comparison with final 12 months.

I hope ARIIA rating, named after one in all India’s illustrious Prime Ministers, will encourage all increased training establishments to be ‘Atal’ or steadfast of their dedication to creating world class establishments. Establishments whose defining characteristic will likely be a sustained stage of top quality analysis and ceaseless innovation.

My finest needs to all of you.

Thanks.

Jai Hind!