‘Imprint India’

‘Imprint India’

-President to launch ‘Imprint India’.
-‘IMPRINT India’, a Pan-IIT and IISc joint initiative to develop a roadmap for research to solve major engineering and technology challenges in ten technology domains relevant to India .

The objectives of this initiative is to 
(1) identify areas of immediate relevance to society requiring innovation,
 (2) direct scientific research into identified areas,
(3) ensure higher funding support for research into these areas and
(4) measure outcomes of the research effort with reference to impact on the standard of living in the rural/urban areas.

 IMPRINT India will focus on ten themes with each to be coordinated by one IIT/IISc, namely:-



(a) Health Care - IIT Kharagpur,

(b) Computer Science and ICT – IIT Kharagpur,

(c) Advance Materials – IIT Kanpur,

(d) Water Resources and River systems – IIT Kanpur,

(e) Sustainable Urban Design – IIT Roorkee,

(f) Defence – IIT Madras,

(g) Manufacturing – IIT Madras,

(h) Nano-technology Hardware- IIT Bombay,

(i) Environmental Science and Climate Change – IISc, Bangalore and

(j) Energy Security – IIT Bombay.