The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is updating research and development guidelines for its schemes after repeated urging by the parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology to expand grassroots research in the sector.
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The parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology has repeatedly urged the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to increase grassroots research in the sector by upgrading the terms of its R&D schemes.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is in the process of updating the research and development (R&D) guidelines for a range of schemes run by it, officials told ET.The move comes after the parliamentary standing committee on communications & information technology has repeatedly prodded the Ministry to increase the body of grassroots research in the sector by upgrading the terms of its R&D schemes, and
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