Innovation real way to achieve country's prosperity: Javadekar

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said that innovation was the real way of achieving the nation's prosperity. He said it can be achieved by letting young minds think out of box. He was addressing students at KPIT Sparkle 2017 event in Pune.

The 3rd edition of the design and development innovation contest, in collaboration with the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), received 1,500 ideas on the theme of Smart Cities from over 10,500 engineering and science students across 300 colleges in India.

Felicitating the winners of the



contest, the Minister said bureaucratic approach cannot lead to research and so research culture, research freedom and research methodology need to be developed.In order to bring the best of the best talent back to India, government has come up with Global Research Innovation Network, the minister added.The grand finale saw 35 top teams present prototypes of their solutions on Smart Cities.

Padmashree Dr. Kiran Karnik, Former President, NASSCOM, Ravi Pandit, Co-founder, Chairman & Group CEO, KPIT, Dr Raghunath Mashelkar Chairman of the Innovation Committee, KPIT were present.