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Rajnath launches scheme to boost defence innovation

Rajnath Singh Defence Minister. PTI file photo

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 4

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today launched a scheme to promote innovations in critical and strategic defence technologies under which start-ups will be eligible to receive grant-in-aid of up to Rs 25 crore for research, development and innovation endeavours in defence technology.

Called Acing Development of Innovative Technologies with iDEX (ADITI), the scheme has a Rs 750 crore plan for the period between 2023-24 and 2025-26. “The scheme will nurture innovation and help the country take a leap in the field of technology,” the minister said. It aims to develop about 30 deep-tech critical and strategic technologies in the proposed timeframe.

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