Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 22: Department of Science and Technology, Government of India sponsored 6th Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE), began today at Mata Vaishno Devi University with an inaugural lecture on “Innovations: Why & How?” by Prof Sudhir K Jain, Vice Chancellor, SMVDU.
In the inaugural address, Prof Jain talked about the importance of innovations in our lives and emphasized the need for innovations for exploiting global opportunities in the WTO era of Global competition. In the talk, Prof Jain presented a slide show on Jessica Cox, who was born without arms and acquired Sport Pilot License in USA to fly light sport aircraft using only her feet. Prof Jain greatly inspired the participants of INSPIRE Programme and advised them to innovate, invent and patent the inventions and further license their innovations and be rich and do charity.
The week-long Science camp will continue till July 26 on the university campus. INSPIRE is an innovative program of DST for attraction of talent to science. The basic objective of the INSPIRE camp is to communicate to the young attendees the excitement of creative pursuits of science and to attract talent to the study of science at an early stage and build the required critical human resource pool for strengthening and expanding science and technology system in R&D base.
In his welcome address, Dr Sunil Wanchoo, Director School of Innovation and Community Development threw light on the camps by the university.
All Deans, Registrar, Directors and faculty members also attended the inaugural lecture.
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