Apr 06,2017: President Pranab Mukherjee has said, India’s innovation strategy should focus on generating ideas that promote inclusive growth and benefit those who are at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid.
Mr Mukherjee was addressing a conference on Mentoring Grassroots Entrepreneurs in Smart Grams for Inclusive Growth at Rashtrapati Bhavan yesterday. He said, with 68 per cent of population still living in rural areas, smart development can take place only if villages and villagers become smart.
On Rashtrapati Bhavan’s initiative to turn five villages of Gurugram into smart villages, the President said, the villages have round-the-clock access to electricity, common service centers, training centers, medical clinics and wellness centers with more than 30 organisations joining the smartgram consortium.
The President said a smart village is “essentially three ‘H’- Humane, Hi-tech and Happy”, which ensures an enhanced quality of life that contributes to harmony, happiness and well-being of our village dwellers. (AIR NEWS)
