National Technology Day Celebration Key Focus Rebooting The Economy Through S&T

National Technology Day will be celebrated In India with a high-level digital conference main focus around rebooting the Economy through Science, Technology, and Research.

The event will be organised on May 11, 2020 by Technology Development Board (TDB) a statutory body of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Union Minister for Science & Technology, Health and Family Welfare and Earth Science will be the chief Guest.

The Event will be also cover the special addresses by Member, Science, NITI Aayog Dr V K Saraswat; Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India, Prof. K. VijayRaghavan; Chief Scientist, WHO, Dr. Saumya Swaminathan; DST Secretary Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, and a few others and will be attended by other officials from TDB, DST and CII. Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnolgy, Dr Shekhar C Mande, DG, CSIR and H.E. Mr Vincenzo de Luca, Ambassador of Italy to India will deliver special addresses in various sessions.

Even during Coronavirs pandemic Government took the help of technology be it Aarogya Setu which is spreading awareness about COVID-19, MyGov Corona, Ayush Kavach by Government Of Uttar Pradesh.

According to Ministry of Science & Technology “Keeping in mind the need of the hour to formulate a comprehensive action plan to reboot the economy, TDB is celebrating National Technology Day, focusing on technological solutions towards that end. These technologies would include, medical technologies, advanced technologies and manufacturing that would prepare India for the post Covid-19 time”.

Apart of digital conference, even virtual exposition has been planned with companies whose technologies has been supported by TBD. Various organizations and companies will be showcasing their products in the exposition through a digital B2B lounge. People from across the world can visit the stalls at the conference.