Question: Who launched the ‘YUKTI 2.0’ platform for Higher Education Institutes in New Delhi on June 23, 2020?
(a) Ravishankar Prasad
(b) Piyush Goyal
(c) Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank
(d) Ram Vilas Paswan
Answer: (c)
Related facts:
- On June 23, 2020, Union Minister of Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ launched an initiative ‘YUKTI 2.0’ to help systematically assimilate technologies having commercial potential and information related to incubated startups in our higher education institutions.
- The YUKTI (Young India combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) web portal was launched earlier on 11 April, 2020.
- The portal intends to cover the different dimensions of COVID-19 challenges in a very holistic and comprehensive way.
- The Ministry will ensure that students, teachers and researchers in higher educational institutions are getting appropriate support to meet the requirements needed to advance their technologies and innovations.
- This will also help the government to identify bottlenecks and formulate appropriate policies to strengthen the innovation ecosystem in the country.
- YUKTI 2.0 could also emerge as Market place for connecting innovators with investors, so that innovative technologies can be taken forward for commercialization.
By: Himanshu Shukla
Links:
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1633700