President to inaugurate Festival of Innovations exhibition

New Delhi March 2 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate a week-long exhibition Festival of Innovations on Saturday (March 4) at Rashtrapati Bhavan an official said on Thursday.

The March 4-10 event would remain open between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

According to a release Mukherjee would present the ninth biennial award for grassroots innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge.

Moreover the President will also meet the innovation scholars artists and writers who would be staying in Rashtrapati Bhavan as part of In-Residence Programme on the occasion.

The exhibition organised in collaboration with the National Innovation Foundation-India would witness a number of exhibitions round-table discussions with national and international participation on different topics related to innovations.

The topics are incubation and acceleration models for innovative start-ups social innovations for large-scale societal change and financing of innovations start-ups and early stage ventures.

The exhibition would also witness an award for Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Visitor s Awards to Central Universities in the categories of Best University Innovation and Research .

There would also be a meeting of Innovation Clubs and Design Innovation Centres and interaction of scientists with grassroots innovators and a workshop for children.

All visitors to the Mughal Gardens would be able to visit the exhibition as per the release.

--IANS
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