All about YUKTI 2.0.
                     All about 
YUKTI 2.0
Introduction
Union Minister of Human Resource Development, 
Ramesh Pokhriyal on 23rd June, launched an initiative 
YUKTI 2.0, to help systematically all  technologies 
having commercial potential and information related to 
incubated startups in our higher educational 
institutions.
What is YUKTI 2.0?
YUKTI 2.0 is an extension of ‘YUKTI (Young India 
combating Covid with Knowledge, Technology and 
Innovation) Portal’ which was meant to identify 
ideas relevant in Covid pandemic earlier.
Source: Jagran.com
Creation of Database
The Ministry has invited students, faculty members, 
startups and other stakeholders of higher education 
institutions to register on the YUKTI portal and 
share their technologies and innovations.
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Importance
Database shared will be showcased to the investor 
community which includes businessmen, farmers and 
industrialists where students will be able to sell their 
ideas.
However, preliminary innovations won’t be 
showcased on YUKTI 2.0 but only those which have 
commercialization potential would be showcased.
Source: Republic World
Benefits
It will provide a clear picture of the state of the 
innovation ecosystem of our higher educational 
institutions.
It will help the government to identify the challenges  
and provide appropriate policies to strengthen the 
innovation ecosystem in the country.
Source: GK Today
How it supports Innovation?
Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme is a government's 
scheme to provide the regulatory architecture for setting up 
or upgrading of 20 Institutions (10 public sector and 10  
private sector) as world-class teaching and research 
institutions.
How the innovations are supported?
Several amendments are made in the Prime Minister’s 
Research Fellowship Scheme to boost research.
Through the Atal Innovation Mission, the government has 
established Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools 
throughout the nation.
YUKTI 1.0
Earlier, the Minister had launched the YUKTI (Young 
India combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology 
and Innovation) web portal on 11 April, 2020. Ministry 
of HRD prepared the portal in view of coronavirus.
The portal intends to cover the different dimensions of 
COVID-19 challenges in a very holistic and 
comprehensive way.
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1.0 to 2.0
While addressing the participants Pokhriyal said that 
YUKTI 2.0 is logical extension of earlier version of 
'YUKTI', an initiative of MHRD, to identify ideas relevant 
in COVID pandemic, especially from higher educated 
students. 
He also informed that all the outcomes of earlier version 
of 'YUKTI’ would be released soon.
Source: ScooNews
Benefits to the students
More importantly, initiative like YUKTI 2.0 will surely help 
the students who are getting bored in their homes now in 
pandemic, fostering the culture of innovation and 
entrepreneurship  in the academic institutions in India.
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