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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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