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All India DST INSPIRE Group Monitoring Workshop at USTM
Khanapara, 9th Mile, June
9, 2018: The University of Science & Technology,
Meghalaya is organizing this year’s “Group Monitoring
Workshop for the INSPIRE Internship Science Camp Organisers”
from 25 to 26 June at the University’s own campus at 9th
Mile. More than 120 nationally and internationally acclaimed
scientists who are coordinators of Innovation in Science
Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) from all over India
as well as 50 scientists from Department of Science and
Technology, Government of India, apart from Vice Chancellors
and Principals from Universities and Colleges from the North
East would be congregating at USTM for the workshop. This is
for the first time that this annual science conference is
being held in the North East.
ISPIRE is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Science
and Technology, Government of India. The initiative aims at
generation and nurturing of a human talent pool capable of
utilizing and developing first principles in science. DST
has developed this innovative programme to attract talent to
the excitement and study of science at an early age, and to
help the country build the required critical resource pool
for strengthening and expanding the S&T system and R&D base
with a long term foresight.
Expressing his gratefulness to DST for granting the
University this unique opportunity to hold this conference
for the first time in the regin, Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor
of USTM, said, “I specially thank Dr Umesh Kumar Sharma,
Scientist E and Director of INSPIRE programme of DST for
selecting USTM considering its performance and contribution
in the field of science and technology”. He informed that
the University has already formed a high level committee to
organize the conference successfully.
INSPIRE has three components: (i) Scheme for Early
Attraction of Talent (SEATS), (ii) Scholarship for Higher
Education (SHE) and (iii) Assured Opportunity for Research
Careers (AORC). A striking feature of the programme is that
it does not believe in conducting competitive exams for
identification of talent at any level. It believes in and
relies on the efficacy of the existing educational structure
for identification of talent. |
