To enable people to upload innovative products designed by them to get government help, the Centre will soon start a portal under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).

“A separate portal shall be created, dedicated to the innovators of India. Anyone who innovates can put his innovation on that portal and my department will follow it. We will reach them in the event they are worthy of that. They will be given all the support,” Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

Speaking at Intel Innovation event here, Prasad said he would personally oversee the initiative to ensure that the innovators are getting all help.

He said the government was promoting domestic electronics manufacturing in a big way and had received investment proposals worth ₹1.17 lakh crore till now, of which ₹90,000 crore have already been approved.

As part of the Intel programme, Prasad felicitated 10 finalists of the ‘Intel and DST Innovate for Digital India Challenge’, who have developed innovative solutions across sectors, such as healthcare, education and agriculture.

The programme was launched in April this year by the US technology multinational in partnership with the Indian government to attract innovators to develop easy-to-use solutions to drive technology adoption or create applications that accelerate delivery of e-governance services through the MyGov App.

Intel Corporation Senior Vice-President and General Manager (Sales and Marketing) R Pearson said the company was one of the original investors in India and had so far invested $3 billion.

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