Government needs to do more to promote innovation

Monday, 28 February 2011, 17:21 IST   |    2 Comments
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Government needs to do more to promote innovation
New Delhi: Contending that innovation is the only way to sustain India's growth, the National Innovation Foundation says the government is not doing enough to promote innovations in local creativity, especially in underdeveloped areas. "We have realized a considerable degree of neglect and indifference by the state as well as market forces for unleashing the local creativity and innovation. Generally, the state's response has been lukewarm towards supporting local initiatives in underdeveloped areas like Champaran, Bastar, Cherrapunji and Arku Valley," says Prof Anil Gupta, Vice Chairman, National Innovation Foundation (NIF). "In some of the regions, the police, untrained as it is, to deal with civil society and its heterogeneity, paints the local communities with the same colour. The articulate local youth is seldom allowed to take leadership against the apathy and indifference of the institutions.
Source: IANS
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