PM launches INSPIRE scholarship programme
New Delhi: With an aim to reach one million students and teachers in the next few years, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today launched INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research), a scholarship programme of the Department of Science & Technology (S&T). The scholarship programme, announced by the Prime Minister at the last Indian Science Congress, aims at strengthening the roots of the knowledge infrastructure in India. The underlying philosophy behind INSPIRE is based on the role that excitement, motivation, mentoring, promotion of excellence and assured career opportunities in research, play a key role in nurturing a meritorious scientist. Launching the scholarship programme, Dr. Singh said, "I am extremely pleased to launch the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research or the INSPIRE scheme of the Department of Science & Technology." He also gave credit to Mr. Kapil Sibal, the Minister of Science and Technology, for bringing this ...