New Delhi Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh on Sunday announced setting up of a dashboard to enable sharing of best technology practices between the Center and the States.
Presiding over the concluding session of the two-day “Centre-State Science Conclave” at Science City, Ahmedabad, the Minister said that a high level mechanism would be developed by the Department of Science and Technology to monitor and coordinate the follow-up action. Why the Conclave?
Singh also asked the states to appoint a nodal officer each, coordinate and cooperate with the special committee to know and share best practices.
The minister said that the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana were taken for this latest heli-borne survey. “If the same technology is uploaded on the dashboard, other states will join this CSIR technology and share everything from source discovery to water treatment thus benefiting lakhs of people across the country.”
He added that it will also contribute positively to the Prime Minister’s goals of “Har Ghar Nal Se Jal” as well as “doubling farmers’ income”. “The latest state-of-the-art technology is being employed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for mapping groundwater sources in arid regions and thus helps in utilizing groundwater for drinking purposes.”
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