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Chandigarh (The Hawk): Interactive meet on Proposed S&T Cluster (Northern Region) Organised jointly by Panjab University, Chandigarh and IIT-Ropar. Dr. (Ms.) Parvinder Maini,Scientific Secretary to Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India, visited Panjab University for setting up S&T Cluster in Northern Region of India comprising states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and J&K and Union Territoryof Chandigarh. In the Curtain Raiser event organised for setting of S&T Cluster,Dr. (Mrs) Parvinder Maini, gave the introductory remarks and underlined the need for S&T Cluster. She Said, “The Chief Operating Officers (or their equivalents) are uniquely positioned in the already established six clusters in various cities of India. For the proposed cluster in Panjab University, she was elated to see the support from various stakeholders that has capacity for enabling India to become a technology reliant country. Dr. Maini discussed with the stakeholders, principles of this flagship program at regional and global level. She further added that the seed grant will be provided by the Office of PSA for setting up the cluster. Dr. Maini emphasised on the fact that the main mandate of the cluster should be to innovate on pain-points of the end users. She urged that the industries should be involved in the project at the very starting stage of the project. The event was presided by Professor Renu Vig, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh. who is also Chair of the Proposed S&T Cluster (Nr). In her address, she accentuated on the research facilities already available at Panjab University i.e CRICK, DIC, SAIF, TEC, BioNEST, etc., which would support the proposed S&T Cluster. Dr. Rupinder Tiwari, Mentor, Technology Ena ...