Jitendra Singh, Minister of State (independent charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, said on Saturday that all states should have ‘One Nation, One Data,’ while advocating for industries to become stakeholders and investors in start-ups from the beginning to ensure sustainable start-ups.
Moderating a leadership session at the first Centre-State Science Conclave held at Science City in Ahmedabad, Singh stated that an issue at the moment is that “we are having multiple data” and that “taking from the Prime Minister’s tangent of ‘one nation, one ration card,’ so with one common data, you can link all the states.” This will eliminate not just multiplicity but also common errors. It is a difficult issue for India because we are a diverse country…but we may still think along those lines.”
In response to Singh’s remarks, BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s Minister of Science and Technology Om Prakash Sakhlecha stated that the state is on its way to achieving “one citizen, one data.”
“You enter a citizen’s Aadhar number, and you will receive all of their data on which schemes’ benefits they have received.” We anticipate to complete the work by March 2023, having completed 90% of the work.”
Singh praised the conclave for getting the ball rolling on talking about state science and technology departments and how they can coordinate and cooperate with each other and with the Centre, adding, “With this conference, we are actually celebrating the science departments and science ministries of different states because I’ve seen a time when if someone would be posted as a secretary at the science department — bureaucrats, civil servants — they would wonder if the science department would be able to coordinate and cooperate with each other and with the Centre
Meanwhile, science and technology ministers from Uttarakhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, and Chhatisgarh attended the leadership meeting.
Odisha’s minister of science and technology, Ashok Chandra Panda, suggested that “both the Centre and the State should support in collaborating with state S&T-recognized centres on how to provide capacity building for scientists and researchers in various areas like grant-writing, scientific leadership, and specific areas of S&T such as green and clean energy, artificial intelligence, and medical sciences, among others.”
Furthermore, at a plenary session on the theme of future growth pathways, professor Sachin Chaturvedi, vice chairman of Rajya Niti Evam Yojana Aayog in Madhya Pradesh, stated that finance is one of the areas that needs to be addressed in technology.
Because of severe rains in Ahmedabad, which caused a power outage at the conclave, the conclave was cut short, resulting in the cancellation of a plenary session midway.
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