{"id":21220,"date":"2024-03-05T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T03:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21220"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T05:10:53","slug":"aditi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/aditi\/","title":{"rendered":"ADITI scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About ADITI Scheme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Acing Development of Innovative Technologies with iDEX (ADITI) is\u00a0a scheme to promote innovations in critical and\u00a0strategic defence technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Aim: It aims to develop about\u00a030 deep-tech critical and strategic technologies in the proposed timeframe.<\/li>\n<li>Eligibility: Under this scheme\u00a0start-ups are eligible to receive\u00a0grant-in-aid of up to Rs 25 crore for their research, development, and innovation endeavours in defence technology.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Time period: This scheme worth\u00a0Rs 750 crore\u00a0for the period\u00a02023-24 to 2025-26.<\/li>\n<li>It falls under the iDEX (Innovations for Defence Excellence) framework of the Department of Defence Production ,Ministry of Defence.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It also envisages to create a\u00a0\u2018Technology Watch Tool\u2019 to bridge the gap between the expectations and requirements of the modern Armed Forces and the capabilities of the defence innovation ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>In the first edition of ADITI,\u00a017 challenges \u2013 Indian Army (3), Indian Navy (5), Indian Air Force (5) and Defence Space Agency (4) &#8211; have been launched.<\/li>\n<li>To motivate young innovators, iDEX was expanded to iDEX Prime, with the assistance increasing from Rs 1.5 crore to Rs 10 crore.<\/li>\n<li>The idea behind the schemes\/initiatives such as ADITI, iDEX, iDEX Prime is to also transform India into a knowledge society.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme will nurture the innovation of youth, and help the country leap forward in the field of technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is iDEX (Innovations for Defence Excellence)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the flagship initiative of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), launched in April 2018.It aims to achieve self-reliance and foster innovation and technology development in Defence and Aerospace by engaging Industries including MSMEs, start-ups,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2011171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>DefConnect 2024: Raksha Mantri launches ADITI scheme to promote innovations in critical &amp; strategic defence technologies<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADITI scheme is a scheme to promote innovations in critical and strategic defence technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}