HRD Minister launches YUKTI 2.0 to encourage innovation

NEW DELHI: Union Human Resource Development Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ today launched a YUKTI 2.0 – Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation – web-portal to encourage technology and innovations of students, teachers and start-ups and connect with businesses.

The YUKTI 2.0 will bring together technologies and innovations of students, faculties and start-ups, which can be showcased to the investor community such as businessmen, farmers and industrialists.

Earlier, Pokhriyal had announced a different name for the project – Massive Indian Novelty Depository, or MIND. The rechristened version is an initiative formulated in collaboration with the innovation cell of the ministry, he urged students, faculty and startups to come forward and participate.

The new portal is an improvement on the existing YUKTI portal which was launched with an aim to monitor and record the efforts and initiatives of the ministry which have been taken in the wake of COVID-19.

In April, the government launched YUKTI to monitor and record the efforts and initiatives of the MHRD. The portal is aimed at covering various initiatives and efforts of the institutions in academics, research especially related to COVID-19, social initiatives by institutions and the measures taken for the betterment of the well-being of the students.

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