The Minister also announced a special promotion scheme-- KIRAN (Knowledge, Involvement, Research, Advancement through Nurturing) for women scientists "to bring about, as far as possible, gender parity in the field of science and technology".
Asked whether it was an "old wine in a new bottle" as there is already schemes for this purpose, Singh said, "this is a new wine in a new bottle," adding that the Government would carry forward the earlier initiatives announced by the previous governments for the welfare of women scientists.
"For many of the women who have a break in the career and then they wish to come back, we would try to evolve certain attractive offers so that the education they expertise, whether it is in the field of basic science, bio-science, engineering..It does not go waste.
"There are a number of women scientists...Who have inevitable break in the continuous career...We are trying to evolve a mechanism (to see) that we don't lose out to them and they don't lose out to us," Singh said.
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