13th March 2024 - a special day in India's efforts to become a hub for semiconductors. Tomorrow, will take part in the ‘India’s Techade: Chips for Viksit Bharat’ programme and lay the foundation stones for three semiconductor facilities worth over Rs. 1.25 lakh crore.

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An excellent way to bid farewell to 2023 and welcome 2024 was to give away prizes for Robofest 3.0 and announce 4.0 amid cheers

Teams from institutions ranging from IIT Chennai, IIT Dhanbad, NIT Trichy to Ahmedabad polytechnic received 5 prizes in each of 7 categories

Absolute privilege to host and address the #STEM teams at National Robofest 3.0 with 650+ teams and 50+ mentors from top IITs, NITs and local STEM colleges in 7 categories for total prize money of Rs 5 cr & patent filing
At Ideation stage, 121/151 teams are from Gujarat

Principal Secretary to Hon’ble PM, Dr P K Mishra visited #ViksitBharat SY at Shahpur
There were more than 1000 persons. Young engineer enthusiastic sarpanch has ensured saturation of Ayushman cards and other schemes.
Demo on Drone, healthy millet recipe & AYUSH camp won hearts

Today, Hon’ble CM performed the ground breaking ceremony for setting up Data Center by ControlS at GIFT city
Globally renowned for Data Centers, ControlS signed MoU with us and plan to go live by 2025
Thanks to Attractive incentives by GIFT and IT policy of State Government

Run up to Vibrant Gujarat today Department of Science and Technology signed about 30 MoUs amounting to more than Rs 23,000 cr likely to generate employment for more than 42,000 persons.

MoUs covered the verticals of Semiconductor, Electronics, ICT and Biotechnology

With Secretary DBT GoI, had a meeting with Pharma industries of Gujarat for applying new gen technologies to BT

Foundation of BT was laid by Hon’ble PM as the then CM by setting up GSBTM. Proactive central policies and India’s global connect further support it

Listen to these Startups
We have award winning startups in the the field of Meditech, Agri Biotech, Environmental Biotech, Animal Biotech, Green-fuel Biotech and industrial biotech
There are mentors, sponsors, incubators and regulators as well, making it all very useful

Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra is going on in full swing with 226 Raths spread in 33 districts
Today Hon’ble PM interacted with beneficiaries from 5 States, providing a lot of guidance and encouragement, infusing enthusiasm
Hon’ble CM visited VBSY at Lavarpur today

Visit to IN-SPCe at Ahmedabad, a single window, autonomous agency under Deptt of Space to promote private sector participation in Space sector has been quite educative.

It is heartening to learn about liberalization coupled with several initiatives of Govt of India

Demonstration of Drone applications in the fields of chillies and gram in Rajkot and Baroda respectively are catching imagination of farms communities
Higher precision in drone application poised to bring higher efficiency
Launch of ‘Namo Drone Didi’ will ensure this

Enjoying the my learning curve moving up at Deptt of Science and Technology
Excited to catch up with the treasure of scientific vision PSA to Hon’ble PM and Ms Maini after G20 RCSA at Gandhinagar and meet Secretaries of Meity and DoT during my Delhi visit and GBRC visit here

Privileged to coordinate Viksit Bharat Yatra especially saturation of schemes, health camps and agri demonstrations in Gujarat.

Today’s motivating interaction with beneficiaries and address by Hon’ble PM to 141 Gram Panchayats locations in Gujarat have infused new life.

Heartening to facilitate and witness expansion of ICT services generally in Gujarat and particularly at GIFT city
Recently John Granger Senior VP IBM Consulting, one of the two main businesses of IBM, inaugurated Client Innovation Center, expanding their presence in GIFT city

#G20 Chief #Science Advisors Roundtable, one of the important initiatives of Hon’ble PM for India’s G20 presidency is going on in #Gujarat
Privileged to welcome G20 Science Leaders and host them to Sun temple Modhera solar light & sound show post India’s exemplary Lunar Mission

Ayurvastram - Fashion for health - organic dyes made from fruits, roots, leaves, bark & flowers have several nourishing, preventive and curative properties
Fashion show curated by NIFT with Anju Modi, Payal Jain and Ritu Bery was hugely appreciated G20 Gujarat health Ministerial