9 December2021when the plan first began, just 20 women were taught in a year; however, over time, the number of seats has grown to 120. According to the Minister, the government is offering a one-year stipend to women for IPR training, which does not impose any strain on the family while the women are being taught.TIFAC was complimented by Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member of NITI Aayog and Chairman of the TIFAC Governing Council, for continuing to do outstanding work in Technology Foresight, assisting inventors, implementing Tele Diagnostics, and the seaweed program, among other things. He said that the Women Scientist Scheme has aided in improving the quality of patent writing since they are highly skilled in their particular technical fields and have received intensive training in IPR and patent drafting.Dr. S Chandrasekhar, Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology, expressed his delight with the scheme's success and assured TIFAC of DST's full cooperation in this area. In his remarks, DG CSIR Shri Shekhar Mande praised TIFAC and CSIR's partnership for hands-on training and contributions of these trainees at CSIR's IPU. The relevance of the WoS-C scheme was also discussed by Dr. Nisha Mendiratta, Head of KIRAN IPR.Prof. Pradeep Srivastava, TIFAC's Executive Director, welcomed all of the program's delegates and informed them about the scheme's trainee selection procedure, which included an all-India entrance examination (55 centres in 45 cities).Dr. Jitendra also inaugurated the TIFAC Mobile App on this occasion, stating that the public will be able to access all of TIFAC's services with a single click. The Minister of Science and Technology presented certificates to women scientists from the 11th batch of WOS-C, also known as KIRAN IPR, for successfully completing the one-year hands-on training in IPR. In this batch, 110 students finished their course, with roughly 27 receiving certificates and some receiving certificates in their absence.
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