Telangana State Innovation Cell, set up under the leadership of IT Minister KT Rama Rao last year, has launched a first-of-its-kind fellowship programme in the country to attract young professionals from diverse backgrounds to work with the government to accelerate innovation in the state. The Telangana Fellowship Program is a one-year program, conceptualized to enable visionary and motivated professionals to work with the Government, in building an innovation-driven economy in the State.
Minister KTR interacted with the first group of fellows who were inducted at the formal launch of Telangana Fellowship Program.
Telangana State Innovation Cell, launched a ‘Fellowship Programme’ for a group of young professionals, selected to work with the government in driving innovation in the state.
The candidates were selected based on an extensive process of resume shortlisting, essay evaluation and personal interviews, the release said.
The group comprises entrepreneurs, engineers, students of journalism and arts and a lawyer.
The projects, being led by the Innovation Fellows, include working with schools to promote a culture of innovation thinking, kick-starting innovation and entrepreneurship activity at the district-level, promoting start-up incubators, creating mentor ecosystem and promoting grassroots-level innovators, it said.
In the modern day, innovation is of significance and improves quality of life by improving productivity, reducing cost and increasing wages, the release said.
Telangana government is committed to building a strong innovation-driven economy, it added.
The aim of the State Innovation Cell, set up by the IT department, is to make Telangana a land of innovators, just like Gujarat is known as a land of businessmen, the release said.
