UNION MINISTER LAUDS THE PROGRESS OF MAKER VILLAGE

The minister said he wanted to replicate the Maker Village-model in other parts of India, so that the entire country gets benefitted

Maker Village Kochi is a role model fit for appli-cation in a wide range of fields, from hi-tech and deep-tech to agriculture, healthcare, environment, automation, business and industry, according to Sanjay Dhotre, Union Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications, and HRD.

During his visit to the facility recently, he hailed the country’s largest hardware incubator as the only successful hardware startup venture by the Union Government in association with a State, and added that the four-year-old establishment had made progress that was usually achieved over a quarter-century. “I would say this is a startup of startups,” he added, after addressing representatives of industry firms such as Bosch, BPCL, Cochin Shipyard, NPOL, V-Guard, SFO, Brinc, GAIL, Altair and Qualcomm.