PM launches scholarship programme ‘PURSE’
Updated on Dec 14, 2008 08:16 pm IST
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched a scholarship programme on Saturday, targeting a million students and teachers in the next few years. Singh asked the corporate sector to play a constructive role in research and development. India has allocated of $433 million to provide strong policy and financial support to the growth of science and technology in its centralized five-year plan period, which began in 2007.
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