Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan during a review meeting at Camp Office in Vijayawada on Tuesday. | Photo credit: BY ARRANGEMENT
Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Forests, Environment, Science and Technology K. Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday (December 2, 2025) urged leaders to put a lot of emphasis on recognizing, protecting and promoting innovative grassroots ideas.
He stressed that the government must immediately enable patent rights for newly identified inventions and expand institutional support to help innovators grow. “If we can provide recognition, safety and encouragement, a new generation of inventors will emerge from the village level,” he said.
The Deputy Chief Minister, who reviewed the activities of the State Science and Technology Department with senior officials at the Camp Office on Tuesday, directed the department to prepare an action plan to actively contribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Made in India and Make in India.
Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan directed the Department of Science and Technology to prepare an action plan aimed at contributing to the Made in India and Make in India initiatives. | Photo credit: BY ARRANGEMENT
He reviewed the initiatives taken during the past year, including the functioning of the Swami Jnananda Regional Science Center at Rajahmundry and the programs to find and promote new inventors across the state.
The state must create strong linkages to connect innovators with industrial entrepreneurs, IT start-ups, researchers, academia and NRIs, he noted. He said that support must go beyond awards and recognition and extend to the protection of intellectual rights through timely patents. If necessary, the preference of innovators will be discussed with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in MSME parks to bring new ideas to the market, he said.
Citing the example of a Chenchu youth from Nallamaly forests who fought against uranium mining to save his village and the skill-based innovation possible among coastal fishing communities, the Deputy Chief Minister said the state must identify real needs and promote technological solutions useful to society.
He directed the officials to prepare an action plan along with industrialists, NRIs and university professors to boost and commercialize the inventions and bring the youth talent of Andhra Pradesh to the limelight of national centers in the coming year.
Published – 02 Dec 2025 21:58 IST
