We are happy to announce that the Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has accord recognition to Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network - North, Jaipur (GIAN-North) as Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIROs). On receiving this recognition GIAN-North is entitle to all such administrative support from the Ministry of Science and Technology (DSIR) as may be required on all issues to promote or encourage scientific research activities. Also the organization will be entitle to avail the custom/ excise duty exemption on the import of equipments, instruments, spares thereof, consumables etc.
GIAN-North has been established jointly by NIF and the Government of Rajasthan in the year 2002 under the chairmanship of Sh. Inderjit Khanna, former chief secretary and currently the election commissioner of Rajasthan. GIAN-North caters to seven north Indian states i.e. Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir and NCT of Delhi and UT of Chandigarh.
The raison-detre of GIAN-N is to unleash the true potential of innovators and traditional knowledge experts at grassroots who are economically poor but knowledge rich, who could neither have the privilege of formal education nor could mobilize any support required in augmenting their knowledge from organized sector. NIF helps such grassroots innovators by recognizing, respecting and rewarding their creativity. NIF scouts their innovations, helps them in nurturing them and finally scaling them up in the form of commercial enterprises.
National Innovation Foundation, Ahmedabad (NIF) is the apex body of GIAN and Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the Chairperson of NIF and Prof. Anil Gupta of IIM, Ahmedabad is its Executive Vice Chairperson. NIF honours innovators and traditional knowledge experts through a National Competition on Grassroots Innovations and till now three such competitions have been concluded. In 2002 and 2005, the President of India conferred these national awards to grassroots innovators at New Delhi and Ahmedabad during Second and Third Award Function respectively.
GIANs are the regional implementation arm of NIF that works in collaboration with state governments of the region. GIAN works as the technology incubator to bring innovations and investments together in order to create viable enterprises. GIANs also help in dissemination of innovations and traditional knowledge for social benefit. We have GIAN-West in Ahmedabad, GIAN-NE in Guahati, GIAN-North in Jaipur and GIAN-Cells in some other parts of the country.
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