India’s Defense Minister says he’s formulating a plan to promote startups.
Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday said his ministry was in the process of formulating a special program to promote startups. “The defense ministry will start a program to promote startups. The ministry has never done something like this before but is going out of the way into (doing) something different,” Parrikar said at the inauguration of a business incubation center.
Parrikar, a former Goa chief minister, said he was keen on offering defense ministry-related research and development projects to the coastal state. “There is an open offer to the Goa government… in another month or two, we can work out a mechanism to ensure that the talent among the Goans doesn’t go waste,” the minister said.
Lamenting the brain drain from Goa, Parrikar said, “All brilliant minds from Goa go to the US and hardworking Goans flock to the Middle-East. What is left is a very diluted form of society; so we should develop ourselves again. There shouldn’t be any brain drain.”
Source: bgr.in
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