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Atmanirbhar Bharat

Akhil Kumar Rai, Consultant (Tech.)

NRDC's nurturing Innovation and technology making India self-reliant

AatmaNirbhar Bharat is the vision of the Hon'ble Prime Minister of making India a self-reliant nation. India is dependent upon lots of imports from many countries across the world and pays a large import bill in comparison to export. AatmaNibhar Bharat interprets the ability to produce the goods/services indigenously, what we required and eventually plays a larger role in the global economy by exporting the surplus products.  This was the real vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat.

We as NRDCian being proud, as NRDC is working towards making India self reliant country keeping the Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat.  During the COVID-19 Pandemic, NRDC has commercialized the 'NavRakshak PPE kit' which was developed indigenously. Also, Ayush 64 drug, which is one of the technology of NRDC is a fully Indian home made medicine which results to mild the effects of infection through COVID-19. NRDC is fully committed to commercialisation of home grown technology.

NRDC through its various schemes is also promoting India's self reliant mission. NRDC has the mandate of promoting indigenous inventive activity under Program for Inspiring Inventors and Innovators (PIII). Under this program, the Corporation provides financial and technical assistance to the innovations emanating from R&D organizations, academic institutions and universities as well as individuals for IP protection.

NRDC through its incubation centre mentors and provide handholding support to the Startups who have potential making their idea into big business. 

Easy availability of capital is essential for entrepreneurs at the early stages of growth of an enterprise. NRDC has schemes providing financial assistance to startups at various stages  of their life cycle such as Seed Funding Scheme and Technology Development, Validation and Commercialization (TDVC) where NRDC is providing funding support upto Rs 1 crore through these schemes.

So far, NRDC has developed all the schemes that provide support and assistance to wide area of entrepreneurs from early stages startups to growth and maturity stage developed entrepreneurs which covers aspects such as development, promotion and transfer of technologies. 

Each and every step of NRDC is contributing towards achieving vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat.