‘SWATI’ (Science for Women-A Technology & Innovation) Portal launched in New Delhi to create a single online portal representing Indian Women and Girls in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Medicine)

Subject: Schemes

Section: Science

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Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Prof Ajay Kumar Sood today launched “Science for Women-A Technology & Innovation (SWATI)” Portal.

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The Portal is launched on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science at Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi.
The database of SWATI Portal will serve in policy making to address the challenges of Gender-gap.
The Portal is a complete interactive database and the first-of-its-kind in India which is developed, hosted and maintained by the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi.
The portal is aimed at creating a single online portal representing Indian Women and Girls in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Medicine).
This was highlighted that this is probably the world’s first Interactive Portal of its kind.
The event was organized with a view to focusing on the importance of “Science for Women & Women in Science” as well as emerging opportunities and inclusiveness of women in S&T endeavors.

Objectives of Swati portal:

The portal is beneficial towards dissemination of knowledge, new advances in fundamental science and role/importance of innovation and entrepreneurship development in strengthening the backbone of Atmanirbhar Bharat.
This would also provide an opportunity to discuss and evolve a roadmap for ‘Women in Science’ & ‘Science for Women’.
The other objectives of the SWATI Portal include
- To scale up the effort exponentially to include each and every Indian woman in science, across all career stages and subjects, spanning both Academia and the Industry enabling reliable and statistically significant long term research on the issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity in India;
- Inclusion of each and every Indian WiS, career stages, subjects, spanning both Academia and the Industry;
- Enabling reliable and statistically significant long term research on the issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity in India,
- developing an active search engine and searchable database.

Various sections under the portal:

The various Sections in the portal include Icons –

Awardees (Padma / Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar / Stree Shakti Science Samman) & Directors, Secretaries Academy Presidents;
Faculty- Indian Universities, Autonomous organizations including S&T Ministry/ CSIR/ DBT/ DST/ CSIR/ MHRD/ UGC/ GATI/ KIRAN;
Research fellows- Postdocs, JRFs, SRFs, technical Staff; Students-PhD Scholars, Research Interns, Graduates, Post graduates, Undergraduates;
WiS Entrepreneurs, Startups, Business & Science Administrators;
STEMM background professionals in alternate careers(e.g. Science, Journalism etc).

About STEMM:

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
STEMM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine.
STEMM is important because technology is expanding into every area of our lives.
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