- The Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India has recently created the “Science for Women-A Technology & Innovation (SWATI)” portal.
About
- SWATI Portal is an online platform that strives to highlight the achievements of Indian women and girls in STEMM fields.
- SWATI operates as a single online site for Indian women and girls in STEMM sectors.
- Database: It hosts a database that can help policymakers solve gender gaps in STEMM.
- SWATI provides an interactive database, a pioneering endeavour in India, which is produced, hosted, and maintained by the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) in New Delhi.
- Faculty: Faculty members from Indian universities, autonomous organisations, and important ministries, including the Ministry of Science & Technology, CSIR, DBT, DST, MHRD, UGC, GATI, and KIRAN.
Objectives
- Scaling Efforts: The portal aims to significantly increase efforts to involve every Indian woman in science (WiS), encompassing all career stages and subjects in both academia and industry.
- SWATI intends to establish an active search engine and searchable database to facilitate trustworthy and statistically significant long-term research on equality, diversity, and inclusion concerns in India.
Source: https://swati.nipgr.ac.in/