UPSC Prelims 2015 – Question 10

Q: Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF)?

1. NIF is an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology under the Central Government.
2. NIF is an initiative to strengthen the highly advanced scientific research in India’s premier scientific institutions in collaboration with highly advanced foreign scientific institutions.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both 1 and 2

d) Neither 1 nor 2

The correct answer is 1 only. 

National Innovation Foundation 

• It is an autonomous body set up in March 2000 with the assistance of the Department of Science and Technology under the Central Government at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Hence, Statement 1 is correct. 
• Since then, it has been actively engaged in promoting creativity and innovation in society. 
• It is India’s national initiative to strengthen grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Hence, Statement 2 is not correct. 
• It has taken major initiatives to serve the knowledge-rich but economically poor people of the country. 
• It is committed to making India innovative by documenting, adding value, protecting the IPR of contemporary unaided technological innovators as well as of outstanding traditional knowledge-holders and disseminating their innovations on a non-commercial and commercial basis. 
• Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators.  

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