HRD Ministry Mulling ‘Think in India’ Campaign

The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is mulling ‘Think in India’ campaign to encourage students to think innovatively and come up with new ideas. Union Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani said that the campaign’s objective would be to check brain drain out of the country.

“We all know the prime minister has spoken about the ‘Make in India’ project and we in the ministry of Human Resource Development want to complement it by ‘Think in India’ campaign through the ‘Rashtriya Avishkaar Yojana.’ So that our faculty and our students need not leave our shores in hunt for money to back their research with,” the HRD minister said.

“We have initiated a programme Global Initiative for Academic Networks called GIAN, where we are seeking to invite very celebrated academicians and industry experts from across the world, who will come and teach at least one semester in India at the cost of Government of India, so that our students and faculty members benefit,” Irani added.