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Ajay Kumar delivers lecture on Innovation for Defence Excellence at IIM

Ahmedabad, Nov 20 (UNI) Secretary of Department of Defence Production, Dr Ajay Kumar on Tuesday delivered a lecture - ‘iDex: Innovation for Defence Excellence’ and addressed the participants of the Armed Forces Programme (AFP) 2018, faculty members and other students of IIM Ahmedabad.
Dr Kumar, a senior IAS officer, stressed on the vital need for promoting indigenous capability in the defence sector. Outlining the scope of the Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDex) project initiated under the aegis of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), he highlighted the establishment of Defence Innovation Fund (DIF) aimed at creation of an ecosystem to foster innovation and technology development in Defence and Aerospace by engaging the industry, MSMEs, start-ups, individual innovators, R& D institutions and the academia.
He spoke about provision of providing necessary assistance in terms of grants/funding and technical support would be provided to enable development of technologies with potential for adoption by Indian defence and aerospace sectors.
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