GANGTOK, 20 May: A two-day workshop on “Capacity building for scouting, documentation and dissemination of grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge” was organized jointly by the National Innovation Foundation-India and State Science & Technology Council at Sikkim Science Center, Marchak, on 19 and 20 May. The aim of workshop was to build the capacity of recently-appointed “young researchers” discover the “innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge” from Sikkim and document and disseminate them for wider audiences, a press release informs.
Dr. Vipin Kumar, Chief Innovation Officer of NIF, in his lecture, highlighted that people at the grassroots level like farmers, artisans, herbal healers etc. have been relying on their ingenuity to solve local problems.
