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Expressing urgent need to build an ‘Innovation Ecosystem’ for the Start-ups, Minister of State for the Ministry of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh has said that future belongs to technology-driven economy.

Jitendra Singh said that both the Start-ups and Women entrepreneurs have a very high priority for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underlining the efforts being taken by the Department of Science and Technology to promote them to their full potential. The Minister Pledged complete support to the Start-ups by proactively reaching out to them and assured full financial support and even offered to change the rules to strengthen the support system.

Meanwhile, Jitendra Singh also launched the SSR and SRIMAN Guidelines. Scientific Social Responsibility, SSR as an institutional mechanism, is a significant step to reach out to the widest-spectrum of stakeholders of S&T with knowledge, human resources and infrastructure to make an effective use of existing assets for the benefit of society.

Besides, he said that the broad objective of the Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR) Guidelines is to harness the latent potential of the scientific community on voluntary basis for strengthening science and society linkages and thereby making S&T ecosystem responsive to societal needs. It primarily involves bridging science-society, science-science and society-science gaps, thereby bringing trust, partnership and responsibility of science at an accelerated pace towards achieving social goals.