PM Modi speaks throughout the inauguration of Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi on November 3, 2025.
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In his inaugural tackle at the primary Emerging Science Technology and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC) in New Delhi on Monday (November 3, 2025), Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that India’s scientists ought to generate concepts to maneuver from meals safety to diet safety; create biofortified crops to deal with malnutrition; develop low-cost fertilizers; higher map India’s genomic biodiversity for personalised medication; and arrive at new and low-cost innovation in clear battery storage. “This conclave should make a collective roadmap towards achieving these goals,” Mr. Modi stated, addressing an auditorium filled with representatives from scientific Ministries, and technologists.
Commencing his speech by congratulating the Indian girls’s cricket group on their maiden World Cup win, he stated that the twenty first century was an epoch of “unusual changes” that have been being formed by science and expertise.
India’s expenditure on analysis and improvement had doubled within the final decade, the variety of patents registered had grown 17 instances, and the variety of ‘deeptech startups’ risen to six,000, Mr. Modi stated. India had made operational a fund of ₹1 lakh crore through the Anusandhan National Research Foundation, which might assist scientists and technologists in the private and non-private sectors to speculate extra considerably in analysis and improvement, he stated.
The ESTIC replaces the Indian Science Congress, the oldest congregation of scientists in India, with a historical past predating Independence. Over the years, the Indian Science Congress had gone into oblivion, with its final session held in 2023.
The ESTIC continues until November 5, with classes on quantum science, bio-engineering and vitality atmosphere, and local weather.
Published – November 03, 2025 10:28 pm IST