Health Ministry releases White paper on ‘Focused Interventions for ‘Make in India’

Union Minister for Science & Technology, Health and Family Welfare and Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan has released a white paper on “Focused Interventions for ‘Make in India’. It has been prepared by Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC).

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TIFAC is an autonomous organization set up in 1988 under the Department of Science & Technology.

Its mandate is to look ahead in technology domain, assess the technology trajectories, and support innovation by networked actions in select areas of national importance. Present Chairman of TIFAC Governing Council is Dr. V. K. Saraswat.

This White Paper captures sector-specific strengths, market trends, and opportunities in five sectors, critical from the country’s perspective, includes healthcare, machinery, ICT, agriculture, manufacturing, and electronics with reference to supply and demand, self-sufficiency and mass-scale production capacity.

It has identified policy options primarily in the areas of Public health system, MSME sector, Global relations: FDI, recalibrated trade alignments, new-age technologies, etc. This is precisely important for the development of technology clusters in champion segments, creating Technology Start-up Exchange, identifying, supporting, and piloting ten blockbuster technologies and collaborating with new dynamics with incubators of Israel, Germany, towards promoting import substitution as well as evolving technology platforms in sunrise technologies.