Director, NIF
National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF) journey of two decades and Four years has been devoted to supporting and encouraging grassroots innovations and igniting traditional knowledge across the length and breadth of the country and beyond. Since its inception in 2000, NIF has been working with an unwavering commitment... Read more
is India's national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators.
NIF scouts, supports and spawns' grassroots innovations developed by individuals and local communities in any technological field, helping in human survival without any help from formal sector. It also tries to ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and/or non-commercial channels, generating material or non-material incentives for them and others involved in the value chain... Read more
NIF-India empowers farmers in Indo-Bangladesh border area! Trained 10 farmers on #OFT & distributed Sitara Sringar mustard seeds. Also, verified traditional veterinary practices & collected valuable plant samples in Jalpaiguri district.@IndiaDST @ranade_arvind pic.twitter.com/t6fTQsvaSP
— NIF - India (@nifindia) November 12, 2024
The NIF team member recently visited #Haryana to verify & scout traditional herbal health practices; met Mr. Vijay Pal Juneja in Yamuna Nagar, who uses herbal treatments for epilepsy, and identified additional health practices in Sangaoli Village.@IndiaDST @ranade_arvind pic.twitter.com/unK2ZsRVcg
— NIF - India (@nifindia) November 11, 2024
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