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PANJIM: In a bid to encourage students with innovative ideas, the State government has decided to provide financial support of up to Rs 50,000 to transform their ideas into scalable projects.
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The Department of Science and Technology and Waste Management has introduced a ‘Scheme to encourage students for Innovation Projects’, which will be implemented through Goa State Innovation Council (GSInC).
Under the scheme, the department will provide financial support of Rs 50,000 each to ten student projects every year.
The focus sectors of the project are green technology, clean energy, industrially utilizable smart materials, waste to wealth, affordable healthcare, water & sewage management, renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, smart cities, agri-tech, Meditech, healthcare tech and digital media, ITES.
“The scheme aims to encourage student innovators, to achieve new heights in sustainable technologies, by providing financial support for prototyping their project innovative ideas,” the department said in a notification issued.
