Policy gaps in encouraging grassroots innovators need to be plugged

Ahmedabad | Monday | 12th August, 2019

Summary:

With every passing day, the journey for grassroots innovators is becoming slightly easier due to multiple efforts by the central and the state governments. The advantage of public procurement has still not been obtained by the majority of grassroots innovators. Multilocation testing and trials: We need to provide special funding window for multilocation, multi-year trials of all innovations having shown social impact at the micro-level. There must be a national/state level fund to underwrite such expenses by innovators who have met minimum performance condition at a micro-level. Every month, every single village of the country can be reached by relevant ideas, innovations and information on low cost safe, sustainable way of dealing with various human, livestock, agricultural, environmental and hygiene-related stresses..