The innovation hubs will provide resources to the students and also help them in tying up with industries. “We are expecting colleges to come up with ideas and we will couple them with industries and make it a reality,” he said.Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis with Raghunath Mashelkar, former director general of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) during the session on Maharashtra Innovates, at the venue of Make In India Week at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) on Sunday. “Innovation in start-ups should be encouraged. The higher and technical education department is bringing a new university act to encourage young minds not only to think differently and back them with resources, but also alkaline battery D/LR20 taking the ideas to entrepreneurs and converting them into reality.
After a “please” from entrepreneurs and experts about creating helpful atmosphere for innovations, principal secretary of higher and technical education department Sanjay Chahande revealed the plan of setting up innovation hubs at the university level. This will convert their idea into reality,” Mr Chahande said. Backing the proposal, Mr Fadnavis said an ecosystem would be created to encourage start-ups so that new ideas and innovations prosper in the country. “We are going to pump in Rs 100 crore for research and innovation at the university level. In the conference ‘Maharashtra Innovates — Next Step’, experts talked about young Indian minds coming up with ideas but not having an environment conducive to turning them into reality.Highlighting Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), the official said they had received Rs 20 crore for innovation hub infrastructure.
We are bringing a new university act for the state, which will allow forming of innovation hubs at every university to encourage students.The Maharashtra government is going to pump in Rs 100 crore for research and innovation by setting up an innovation hub at every university. For that we need to do the hand-holding, mentoring and financing and marketing,” he said.Dr Raghunath Mashelkar, who has been recently given responsibility of the State Innovation Council, said, “If there is no speed we can’t compete with the world, if there is no scale we will not be able to make an impact and if there is no sustainability then we will vanish. We, therefore, need to create innovation led inclusive growth. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, minister of state for planning Deepak Kesarkar, co-chairman of State Innovation Council Raghunath Mashelkar and executive vice-chairman of National Innovation Foundation Anil Gupta participated in the discussion.”
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