Raipur, Nov. 10 -- Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for a Centre of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NIT Raipur and said his government is working to create an ecosystem where youth could realise their dreams without moving to big cities.
The Shrimati Mithilesh Agrawal Centre of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering and Technology (MACIEET) will be established on the NIT Raipur campus at a cost of Rs 88.76 crore, an official statement said.
The facility is being set up under a tripartite memorandum of understanding signed last year between the Chhattisgarh government, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur and the Motilal Oswal Foundation (MOF), it said.
Addressing the foundation stone-laying ceremony, Sai said there is no dearth of talent and potential among the state's youth, but they needed the right opportunities, modern resources and proper guidance.
"Our government is creating an environment where young people do not have to move to metropolitan cities to realise their dreams, but can develop new innovations, establish industries and generate employment opportunities for others right here in Chhattisgarh," he said.
He said youth power, technology and innovation will play a decisive role in realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of an Atmanirbhar Bharat and a developed India.
The MACIEET centre will not merely be a state-of-the-art building, but a hub to fulfil the aspirations and potential of the younger generation, the CM said.
It would provide students with facilities to conduct research on their ideas, develop technological solutions, prepare prototypes and convert them into commercially viable ventures, thereby strengthening the start-up ecosystem and promoting technologies suited to industrial requirements, he added.
Emphasising the importance of innovation, Sai said technology could be considered truly meaningful only when it improved people's lives by making them better, safer and more convenient.
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