Srinagar, Nov 08: Union Minister of State, Dr.Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the three-day ‘Kashmir Expo Start-ups for Livelihood’ event Wednesday.
The expo is being organized under the aegis of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India at Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre, Srinagar in association with National Innovation Foundation-India.
Manoj Sinha, LG will represent the Jammu and Kashmir governments at the event. About 55 start-ups from across the country are participating in this start-up exhibition being organized in the conference center.
In this three-day exhibition, youth who have started with innovation in various fields will also come to display their products, technology, and services.
The central government is making continuous and effective efforts towards creating employment opportunities in the rural areas of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and providing better employment to the local people in their home state. To meet this objective, the ‘Kashmir Expo Start-up for Livelihood’ is being organized.
Since 2014, when Prime Minister NarendraModi first talked about ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, it fuelled many ambitions within the country. India, which has emerged as the 3rd largest among the Global Start-up Hubs – got a lot of inspiration from the Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign. In the last seven years, some renowned start-ups have come up in India, which are empowering rural people by creating business opportunities for a better quality of life in rural India.
When Prime Minister NarendraModi took power, there were only around 350 start-ups in the country, whose number has increased to 75 thousand today.
The technology of these start-ups has been a game changer, paving the way for increased productivity and growth potential in rural areas.
It is also to be mentioned that recently, Union Minister Dr.Jitendra Singh inaugurated the Start-up Expo in Jammu. After the launch of the event, the Minister of State in his address had said that start-ups are taking new flight under the vision and guidance of Prime Minister NarendraModi.
Then there were 50 biotech parks in the country and today there are 5500 biotech parks in the country. All this was possible because the Prime Minister knew their importance. He gave them the right encouragement at the right time.
Dr Jitendra breaks ‘silos’, convenes joint meeting of National Autonomous Institutes
Breaking away from the culture of working in “silos”, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh Tuesday convened the first ever Joint Society meeting of all the National Autonomous Institutes (IITM, INCOIS, NCESS, NCPOR, NIOT) in the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and called for integrated “whole of government” approach.
Five Autonomous Institute Societies, that is, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS), National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) and National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) have been merged into a single Society of MoES.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that the move is in tune with Prime Minister NarendraModi’s directive to avoid duplication and aim for greater integration to achieve the maximum output. He said, PM Modi not only has a natural predilection for science but has also been forthcoming in supporting and promoting science and technology based initiatives and projects over the last 8 years.
Apart from Dr Jitendra Singh, who is the President of the Society, Members, Dr.M. Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Shri S. Somanath, Secretary, Department of Space, Dr. N Kalaiselvi, DG, CSIR and Secretary DSIR, Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, Former Chairman, ISRO, Bengaluru, Dr. P. S. Goel, Former Secretary, MoES, Dr. Harsh K Gupta, Former Secretary, DOD/MoES, Dr.ShaileshNayak, Former Secretary, MoES& Director, NIAS, Bengaluru, Dr. GA Ramadass, Director, NIOT, Dr. T Srinivasa Kumar, Director, INCOIS, Dr. R. Krishnan, Director, IITM, Prof.Jyotiranjan S Ray, Director, NCESS, Dr.ThambanMeloth, Director, NCPOR took part in today’s deliberations.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that the Ministry of Earth Sciences has taken the notion of “Marine Surveillance” to a new level, where Space applications are also being deployed to share the valuable inputs with the Security Agencies. The Minister informed that Oceansat will be launched on 26th of November, 2022 and preparation for a NASA-ISRO Radar System is at an advanced stage. He also informed greater use of Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS, as one of the key sources of position information, alongside radio navigation systems, which exchange information with nearby ships and land-based vessel traffic services (VTS) on a vessel’s position, course and speed.
Taking a review of the Design and Development of Manned Submersible – MATSYA 6000, Dr Jitendra Singh said, completion of all testing to proceed for shallow water testing of manned submersible during the first quarter of 2024 using the NIOT-MoES research vessel ORV SagarNidhi. He informed that based on the ongoing progress, it is expected that all the long lead components shall get released by the third quarter of 2023 to proceed for the subcomponent integration and testing by following due DNV approved interface procedures.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, for the benefit of ocean scientific community, under the Deep Ocean Mission’s SAMUDRAYAAN program of Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), the deep-water human submersible MATSYA6000 is designed and developed indigenously by National Institute of Ocean Technology, an autonomous institute under MoES. The battery-powered submersible MATSYA 6000 shall have the capability to carry three persons upto 6000 m water depth and perform scientific exploration with a normal endurance period of 12h and emergency support for 96 hours. Manned submersible have the advantages of carrying scientists to deep sea areas for research on life in extreme environments by biological sampling, habitat analysis and in situ experiments for ocean mineral exploration.
Secretary, MoES, Dr M Ravichandra said that considering the complexity in the depth rated component custom design, realisation and testing of other subsystems; contract were signed for the long lead items with national and international agencies for the subcomponents realization. Titanium Alloy personnel sphere for 6000 m operation capability is under progress with VSSC-ISRO. A design document is submitted to DNV for approval and ingot material processing is being carried out at MIDHANI and forging is planned at L&T. Electron Beam Welding facility augmentation is being completed at LPSC-ISRO.
