{"id":157673,"date":"2021-12-31T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=157673"},"modified":"2021-12-31T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:00:18","slug":"year-end-review-2021-ministry-of-science-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/year-end-review-2021-ministry-of-science-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Year-End- Review-2021- Ministry of Science and Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Science and Technology has launched several initiatives in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Some of them are:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>India\u2019s ranking in global S&amp;T indices continues to rise<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has risen to the 46th position, featuring within the top 50 innovative economies globally as per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-scores-46th-rank-in-the-global-innovation-index-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Global Innovation Index(GII).<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India remains among the top 3 countries <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in scientific publication as per the NSF database.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has also reached <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3rd Position in terms of no of PhDs, in size of Higher Education System; as well as in terms of number of Startups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-super-computing-missionnsm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>National Supercomputer Mission (NSM)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/initiatives-for-gender-advancement-and-equality-in-academic-and-research-institutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>GATI<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vigyan-jyoti-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Women Scientists Scheme<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Saffron Cultivation in the Northeast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Saffron Cultivation was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so far confined to parts of Kashmir. The Northeast saw the successful cultivation of saffron for the first time in the Yangang village of South Sikkim. It is now being expanded to Twang, Arunachal Pradesh and Barapani, Meghalaya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/serb-launches-fund-for-industrial-research-engagement-fire-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Fund for Industrial Research Engagement (FIRE)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/samvedan-2021-iit-madras-and-sony-india-team-up-to-host-national-level-hackathon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>SAMVEDAN 2021<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-presents-the-8th-inspire-manak-awards-during-a-virtual-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>INSPIRE MANAK awards<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-inaugurates-mission-innovationmi-face-to-face-meeting-of-innovation-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Mission Innovation<\/b><\/a><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a part of Mission Innovation 2.0, India is co-leading the Innovation Community on low carbon affordable heating and cooling of buildings along with the European Commission and the UK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-researchers-develop-better-therapeutics-to-treat-autism-spectrum-disorder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>6BIO Compound<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/covid-19scientific-initiatives-and-organizations-in-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>National Innovation Foundation(NIF)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-climate-vulnerability-assessment-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>National climate vulnerability assessment report<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u2018<\/b><b>Year-End- Review-2021- Ministry of Science and Technology<\/b><b>\u2019 <\/b>published in <b>PIB <\/b>on <b>31st Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Ministry of Science and Technology has launched several initiatives in 2021. Some of them are: India\u2019s ranking in global S&amp;T indices continues to rise India has risen to the 46th position, featuring within the top 50 innovative economies globally as per Global Innovation Index(GII). India remains among the top 3&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/year-end-review-2021-ministry-of-science-and-technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Year-End- Review-2021- Ministry of Science and Technology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-157673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700205769},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}