Abhay Karandikar

#ParliamentQuestion: POLICIES FORMULATED RELATING TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 💠The Government also brought out the Indian Space Policy, 2023 in April 2023, which provides a level playing field for Non-Government Entities in the space sector by enabling their participation across the entire value chain of space activities, fostering a commercial space ecosystem, and boosting "Make in India" initiatives 💠The National Geospatial Policy, 2022, notified on 28 December 2022, aims to liberalize and democratize access to geospatial data and services, foster innovation, enable its widespread use across governance, businesses and academia Read here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa… @IndiaDST

#ParliamentQuestion: WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN QUANTUM RESEARCH AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INCLUDING FELLOWSHIPS 💠The Government of India is implementing the National Quantum Mission (NQM) to promote research, development, and innovation in quantum technologies with an outlay of ₹6003.65 crore for a period of eight years 💠Under the Mission, four Thematic Hubs (T-Hubs), namely Quantum Computing (led by IISc Bengaluru), Quantum Communications (led by IIT Madras), Quantum Sensing (led by IIT Bombay) and Quantum Materials (led by IIT Delhi) have been established in F.Y. 2024-25 💠These T-Hubs comprises of 14 Technical Groups having 17 Project Teams bringing together a total of 152 researchers from 43 Institutions across 17 states and 2 UTs, including Maharashtra Read here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa… @IndiaDST

#ParliamentQuestion: TECHNOLOGY TRANSLATION RESEARCH PARKS (TTRP) 💠The proposals were subsequently examined by the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) against criteria such as alignment with national priorities and NM-ICPS objectives, financial sustainability and operational roadmap, existing industry collaborations and commercialisation potential, capability to build a broad cyber-physical systems (CPS) research and skilling ecosystem, and synergy with existing TIH infrastructure and resources 💠The TTRPs are encouraged to further strengthen translational research, technology development and industry engagement in their respective focus areas, while expanding activities related to technology validation, prototyping and sector-specific applications. These efforts facilitate wider adoption of CPS technologies and support their deployment for public and societal use, leveraging the existing TIH ecosystem Read here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa… @IndiaDST