Panel moots Innovation Council

Commission Chairman K Kasturirangan, briefing the media after its 11th meeting on Thursday, said that the Prime Minister had declared 2011-20 to be a decade of innovations.
Following this, the National Innovation Council Chairman Sam Pitroda had written to all the states to have state-level councils. Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa had forwarded Pitroda’s communication to the State Knowledge Commission for further deliberations.

The Commission had decided to hold a one-day workshop along with National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) on encouraging innovations, Kasturirangan said.