{"id":140374,"date":"2020-10-23T02:06:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=140374"},"modified":"2020-10-23T02:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:36:56","slug":"ngandam-seeks-centres-help-in-developing-scientific-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/10\/23\/ngandam-seeks-centres-help-in-developing-scientific-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngandam seeks Centre&#8217;s help in developing scientific knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Oct 22:<\/strong> Science &amp; Technology Minister Honchun Ngandam on Thursday requested union MoS for Science &amp; Technology, Dr Harsh Vardhan to take care of Arunachal in particular and the Northeast region in general in &#8220;developing scientific knowledge and science intervention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ngandam-seeks-Centres-help.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140378 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ngandam-seeks-Centres-help.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ngandam-seeks-Centres-help.jpg 340w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ngandam-seeks-Centres-help-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Addressing a webinar convened by the union science &amp; technology ministry, which was attended by dignitaries from the NITI Aayog and the science &amp; technology department and representatives from various states and union territories, Nangdam, who was allotted the science &amp; technology department recently, said Arunachal should be treated as a special case, it being strategically located and sharing international borders with three countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have briefed the union minister about the activities of the department of science &amp; technology and the Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science &amp; Technology (APSCST) and awareness programme undertaken by the department in various schools and others,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ngandam said that the APSCST is having a dialogue with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science &amp; Technology, Japan, for collaboration in research and development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The bio-resource centre under construction in Kimin in Papum Pare district is on the verge of completion and it may start functioning soon,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Dr Vardhan called on the states to join the exercise of building an evidence-driven, inclusive national science, technology and innovation policy (STIP-2020) that would percolate to the grassroots level. The STIP-2020 is being formulated at present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">APSCST Chairman Bamang Mangha, Director CD Mungyak, Joint Director Dr DJ Mahanta, and OSD Neelam Tath were also present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Oct 22: Science &amp; Technology Minister Honchun Ngandam on Thursday requested union MoS for Science &amp; Technology, Dr Harsh Vardhan to take care of Arunachal in particular and the Northeast region in general in &#8220;developing scientific knowledge and science intervention.&#8221; Addressing a webinar convened by the union science &amp; technology ministry, which was attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}