Challenge COVID-19 Competition(C3)

News:National Innovation Foundation(NIF) has identified several Science and Tech based innovative solutions through the Challenge Covid-19 Competition (C3) to tackle Covid-19 pandemic.

Facts:

  • Challenge Covid-19 Competition(C3): It aims to engage innovative citizens to come up with ideas and innovations to manage coronavirus pandemic and its consequences.

Additional Facts:

  • NIF: It was set up in 2000 as an autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology.
  • Aim: To help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators.