{"id":15210,"date":"2022-01-19T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/?p=15210"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:45:42","slug":"pscst-hosts-vigyan-utsav-showcasing-innovation-ecosystem-for-growth-of-tech-led-start-ups-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/?p=15210","title":{"rendered":"PSCST hosts \u2018Vigyan Utsav\u2019 showcasing innovation ecosystem for growth of tech-led Start-ups in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15211\" src=\"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vigyan-utsav.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"347\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vigyan-utsav.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vigyan-utsav-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PSCST hosts \u2018Vigyan Utsav\u2019 showcasing innovation ecosystem for growth of tech-led Start-ups in Punjab<\/p>\n<p>Innovation is one of the key driver and game changer for the socio-economic development : Dr.Arora<\/p>\n<p>Chandigarh\/Ferozepur, January 19, 2022: On Tuesday, Punjab State Council for Science &amp; technology (PSCST ) in collaboration with Startup Punjab and Indian Institute of Science Education &amp; Research celebrated Vigyan Utsav, a joint initiative of Department of Science &amp; Technology, Govt. of India &amp; State Science &amp; Technology Councils to showcase country\u2019s Science Technology &amp; Innovation (STI) ecosystem for Atma-Nirbhar Bharat.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Dr Jatinder Kaur Arora, Executive Director, PSCST presented Innovation &amp; Start up Ecosystem of the State. Sibin C, IAS Director, Industries &amp; Commerce-cum-State Startup Nodal Officer in his special address said that the State has established a dedicated Start-up cell under the aegis of Department of Industries &amp; Commerce, Punjab. He emphasized that Punjab is an entrepreneurial state with attractive &amp; innovative industrial policy offering numerous fiscal and non-fiscal incentives to incubators, accelerators, &amp; budding Start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, a MoU was also signed between PSCST, AIIMS Bathinda &amp; NASSCOM Foundation for facilitating Pilot Test Bedding of two Startups &#8211; AINDRA &amp; Janitri in Punjab under Jancare Innovation Challenge supported by BIRAC &amp; NASSCOM for providing innovative technologies for improved healthcare in low resource settings.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Debapriya Dutta, Advisor, DST-GoI also launched RootWorks Learning Platform, a Start-up jointly supported by PSCST &amp; DST-GOI for developing digital platform workable in rural areas to help students continue with their studies during COVID without internet or smart phones.<\/p>\n<p>The event was aired live on WebEX and YouTube and attended by more than 100 potential &amp; operational start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Manish Diwan-Head, Strategic Partnership &amp; Entrepreneurship BIRAC; Ms Palak Bhatia, Sr Manager, Start up India- Invest India; Prof D K Singh, ED- AIIMS Bathinda; Sanjeev Malhotra, CEO-IoT CoE- NASSCOM; Ms Nidhi Bhasin, CEO NASSCOM Foundation; Dr Jitender Kumar, MD, B&#8217;lore Bioinnovation Centre;\u00a0 Somveer Anand, CEO &amp; Mission Director, IM Punjab; Satyendra Singh, CEO- TBI- IISER Mohali &amp; Mr Taranjeet Singh Bhamra, CEO AGNext Technologies also addressed the participants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSCST hosts \u2018Vigyan Utsav\u2019 showcasing innovation ecosystem for growth of tech-led Start-ups in Punjab Innovation is one of the key driver and game changer for the socio-economic development : Dr.Arora Chandigarh\/Ferozepur, January 19, 2022: On Tuesday, Punjab State Council for Science &amp; technology (PSCST ) in collaboration with Startup Punjab and Indian Institute of Science &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}