UPSC Prelims 2015 Question:

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 codes given below.

Explanation:

• The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) – India is an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. It supports grassroots innovations developed by individuals and local communities in any technological field, helping in human survival without any help from the formal sector. It also tries to ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and/or non-commercial channels, generating material or non-material incentives for them and others involved in the value chain. So, Statement 1 is correct.
  
  
• It is India's national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators. So, statement 2 is not correct.
  
  

Therefore, option (1) is the correct answer.

Subject: Science & Technology| Miscellaneous(s&t)