Odisha plans to host innovation festival to scout grassroots innovation

The Odisha government has set a target to create 1000 startups by 2020 and is eyeing a spot among the top three destinations in the country

Odisha plans to organise an innovation festival to scout for grassroots-level innovation at schools, colleges, polytechnics and industrial training institutes.

"The Festival of Innovation is now organised at the President’s secretariat sometime between January and February. This will be organized for the first time in Odisha in the country”, said LN Gupta, additional chief secretary (MSME), Odisha government.

The National Innovation Foundation (NIF), India has been organising an exhibition of grassroots innovation every year since 2010, in collaboration with the Honey Bee Network institutions, volunteers and the Department of Science and Technology at the President's House. The Festival of Innovation (FOIN)