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(‘Hail  Science’).  Emphasising    ocean  mission ‘Samudrayaan',
                                             JAI ANUSANDHAN                            upon the importance of research    which opened the gates for India

                                                                                                                          to enter the elite club of nations
                                                                                       and innovation for building a
                                   DRIVING GROWTH BY INNOVATION                        New India, he further added        such  as  the  USA,  Russia,  Japan,
                                                                                                                          France and China to have niche
                                                                                       a crucial link to this and gave
                                                                                       the inspirational call of ‘Jai     technology   and   vehicles  to
                                                                                       Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan, Jai   carry out subsea activities. From
                                                                                       Anusandhan’ i.e. ‘Hail Soldiers,   indigenious COVID-19  vaccines
                                              Research   and   innovation
            Student power is the basis                                                 Hail Farmers,  Hail  Science and   that saved the lives of millions
        of making India powerful. After    have  always  been  an integral             Hail Innovation.’                  across  the world  to  the  use  of
        all, it’s the youth of today who   part of  India’s  culture.  Since               Today,   the   country   is    drone  technology  in  the  field
        will  take  India  towards  2047.
                                           ancient times, India has seen               witnessing    research     and     of agriculture, India is showing
        The way our youth of today are
                                           scholars like Karaad, Sushruta,             innovation in every sector. Some   the path of anusandhan-led
        working  for  the  country,  and
        have joined nation building, fills   Charaka,  Aryabhatta    and               of the path-breaking examples      development to the whole world.
        me with confidence.                many others, who have made                  are  BHIM-UPI,  which  currently       The   technical,  research
        -Prime Minister Narendra Modi      unforgettable contributions in the          constitutes over 40% of all digital   and  development   institutes
         (in his ‘Mann ki Baat’ address)   field  of  science  and  technology.        transactions happening in the      of the nation have become
                                           Ancient Indian texts like Rigveda,          country; Mars Orbiter Mission,     hubs  of  this  innovative  spirit.
                                           Samhitas and  Atharva Veda,                 which  is the most  economical     The  students and professors  of
                                           to name a few, highlight India's            interplanetary mission in the      institutes like IITs, IISER, NITs, etc.,
                                           invaluable        contributions             whole world; NAVIC, with which     have taken this responsibility
                                           in   the   field   of   astronomy,          India  became  one  of  the  five   of driving India on the path of
                                           medicine, mathematics, etc. In              countries to have its own GPS      becoming an innovative nation
                                           contemporary times, India is one            system;   or  the   aspirational   and are bringing a much-
                                           of the fastest growing economies
                                           of the world fuelled by the culture
                                           of  research  and   innovation
                                           that has played a crucial role
                                           in achieving this status at the
         "The  IInvenTiv  2022  was        global level.
         a    one-of-its-kind  event.         On the occasion of 76
                                                                        th
                                                                        th
         I  want   to  thank   Prime       Independence Day of India on 15
         Minister   Shri    Narendra       August, 2022, from the ramparts
         Modi   for  mentioning  the       of the Red Fort, Prime Minister
         5G testbed that IIT-K made        Narendra Modi recalled the slogan
                                           given  by  former Prime Minister
         in  collaboration  with  IIT
                                           Lal Bahadur Shastri ‘Jai Jawan,
         Madras. This recognition is
                                           Jai Kisan’ (‘Hail soldiers, Hail
         encouraging."
                                           Farmers’) and the new link added
              -Prof. Abhay Karandikar
                                           to it by former Prime Minister
                   Director, IIT Kanpur
                                           Atal  Bihari Vajpayee  ‘Jai  Vigyan’
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