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New Delhi
The government has rationalized 200 Awards under the Department of Science and Technology because some of these awards were processed by different agencies through inadequate guidelines, arbitrary eligibility, evaluation, and selection criteria.
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh told Lok Sabha that the broad objective of the rationalization and doing away with selected awards was aimed to avoid duplicity, and bring greater objectives, transparency, and efficiency. He added that during the analysis of the award guidelines, secondary research, and best practices, it was observed that the awarding process followed for different awards lacked standardization and was not making the desired impact on society as well as the Science & Technology ecosystem.
