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Startup Kudla: Education, Research & Innovations

Minister tells MP to submit proposal for NIELIT
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Union Minister of State for Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology P P Choudhary told MP Nalin Kumar Kateel to submit a proposal on setting up a National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) Centre in Mangaluru.

Speaking at a programme to mark three years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s at the Centre here on Wednesday, he said that if the MP moots the proposal, the ministry will consider it on priority basis. Such a centre is required for a city like Mangaluru which is considered as the educational hub of the country, he said.

He said the Union government wants to set up NIELIT in each state. Some states have more than one such centres while others do not have one. The NIELIT is engaged both in formal and non-formal education in the area of Information, Electronics and Communication Technology (IECT), besides development of industry-oriented quality education and training programmes in the state-of-the-art areas. There are 36 NIELIT centres in the country, he added.

Choudhary said if the MP submits a proposal on IT Park in Mangaluru, the ministry will consider it positively. IT hub should come up in a city like Mangaluru. Also, the Software Technology Park in Mangaluru will be strengthened, he said.
Good that Mangaluru MP did not discuss about 'Medical Electronics Park' in Mangaluru. Now chances are high that PM himself will act in response to posts here on this matter.

Let us hope that NIELIT, Mangaluru will have 'Centre of Excellence for Medical Electronics' & 'Centre of Excellence for Health Informatics'. (All other facilities needed are listed against each NIELIT centres in website itself.)

Whether NIELIT will be coming up in Kunjathbail Health City (assuming that it will focus on health sector)? Apart from AA Shetty institutes what are other plan for this health city? Even 'Medical Electronics Park' can be located here depending upon land requirements.

Manipal top among private Indian Universities in QS World Rankings

M'luru: SJEC receives life membership of Institution of Engineers, India
Mangaluru: SJEC conference on Smart Computing stresses on innovation

Jackfruit seed pickle a new value addition
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Mr. Padre said that like the jackfruit seed pickle introduced in the festival, the potential for making more products from the jackfruit seed and its powder should be explored.

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He urged researchers to conduct research on the medicinal properties of jackfruit. It would help growers and marketers immensely.
How much 'recchevu' is grown in the region? What is its food value and what can be done with it?

Mangaluru: St Aloysius College ranked 23 among best science colleges in India
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Mangaluru, 10 Jun 2017: St Aloysius College (Autonomous), here, in yet another achievement in its many distinctions, has been ranked 23 among the ‘Best Science Colleges in India’ by The Week-Hansa research study at All India level. At the state level, the college is in the 4th position. The Week magazine is conducting the research study on colleges in the last five years on an annual basis and St Aloysius has achieved the rank consistently. In fact, it has improved its ranking to 23 from 24 in the previous year.
'City of the Young': Developing Mangaluru into world-class study space
'City of the Young' Part II: Building a world-class University City
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Today, Mangaluru city boasts of 3 universities in close proximity to each other – Mangalore University, Yenepoya University, and NITTE University. On the outskirts is located the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, designated as a National Institute of Importance by government of India. About 61 kilometers away in Manipal is situated the Manipal University. Thus in a small geographical radius there are 5 major universities and innumerable schools and colleges of repute. I would prefer to call this area as the ‘Education Pentagon’ because of the above 5 great institutions functioning in DK District and Udupi District. UK has its Golden Triangle of Oxford, Cambridge, and London universities. Let Mangaluru also boast about its ‘Education Pentagon’.
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Unfortunately, Indian universities are just ‘Teaching universities’ focused only on marks, whereas what we need is ‘Research Universities’. The ‘Education Pentagon’ of Mangaluru should be developed into a ‘ Big Science Facility’, as in China, comprising of facilities like Supercomputing Core Lab, Six sided Virtual Reality Facility that can turn data into 3D structures, Imaging and Characterization Lab, Propulsion and Combustion Engineering Lab, Aerodynamics & Fluid Mechanics Lab, Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulation, Hypersonic and Computational Aerodynamics Center, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Synchrotron Radiation Facility and many more. The ‘Education Pentagon’ in Mangaluru should become the epicenter of India’s future scientific progress. The task, no doubt, is uphill but with co-operation from all Mangloreans it can become a reality.
Most of the Labs mentioned are in Aerospace domain. Would be good for increasing floating student population. (that is what meant by 'City of the Young'). But once students complete education including Ph.D. programmes they will move to other cities which are dominating Aerospace domain which are currently huge mega cities (Belgaum & Dharwad are in better position to take on those cities in Aerospace and Defense domains and let us leave it to them) and we have also responsibility to decrease these cities burden by decreasing their population otherwise cities like the parched city by means like turning river will destroy our environment and hence livelihood also of less educated. To increase Mangaluru's fixed population we need to have ‘Cluster of Excellence’ in our 'Domains of Excellence' in which undivided DK wants to lead. One of goal of 'Smart City' is also attract and retain talented people.

For example we can have 'Centre of Excellences' for many of subjects in Medical/Healthcare domain listed below either as institutes mentioned as NIPER & BEERI or distributed in different colleges & research institutes. (Hope I have arranged them correctly as I am very weak in Medical stuffs, some subjects are already taught in Mangaluru colleges and some links may not be working as I prepared it when I was studying them a long back. And there may be some links not explicitly related to biomedical domain in BEERI).

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research (NIPER) (more than 100 acres) with following additional departments/courses (NIPER Academic Departments)
  1. Nanomedicine {1}
  2. Nuclear Medicine {1}
  3. Marine Pharmacognosy {1}

Biomedical Engineering Education & Research Institute (BEERI) (more than 200 acres) with following departments
  1. Medical Devices & Equipments {1,2} (non-electronics against 2)
  2. Biomedical Electronics & Instrumentation {1}
    • Telemedicine {1}
    • Photonics, Nanophotonics {1,2,3}
    • Medical Robotics {1}
  3. Biomechatronics {1}
    • Biorobotics
  4. Signal & Image Processing {1,2}
    • Electro & Magnetophysiology (Electrocardiology, Electroencephalogy, Magnetoencephalography) {1,2,3,4}
    • Medical Radiography {1}
    • Tomography (Positron emission tomography, Computed Tomography, Magnetic resonance imaging, Single-photon emission computed tomography, Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Electron Tomography, Muon Tomography, Atom Probe, Magnetic Particle Imaging, Hydraulic Tomography, Angiography, Cryo-electron tomography, Electrical capacitance tomography, Electrical impedance tomography, Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Magnetic induction tomography, Neutron tomography) {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19}
    • Medical ultrasound {1}
    • Endoscopy {1}
    • Elastography {1}
    • Tactile imaging {1}
    • Thermography {1}
    • Photoacoustic imaging {1}
    • Medical photography {1}
  5. Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (Computational Medicine & Health/Medical/Biomedical/Clinical Informatics) {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
    • Systems Biology {1,2}
    • Computational Microbiology, Physiology, Kinetics & Metabolism, Toxicology, Anestheology, Immunology, Cardiology, Embryology, Dermatology, Anatomy, Accoustics, Endocrinology, Optics/Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics, Proteomics, Gastronomy, Oncology, Transport Phenomena, Disease Modelling, etc
      {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,
      26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53}
    • Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics {1,2,3}
    • Finite Element Modelling {1}
    • Biostatistics/Biometry {1}
    • Data Science (Big Data, Data Mining & Analytics) {1,2,3,4}
    • Biomedical Artifical Intelligence & Neural Networks {1,2}
    • Pathology Informatics {1,2,3}
    • Predictive Medicine {1}
    • Genomics/ Genome Informatics, Computational Genomics {1,2,3}
    • Dental Informatics {1}
    • Optical Informatics {1,2}
    • Translational Bioinformatics {1}
    • Medical Devices Informatics {1,2}
    • Public Health Informatics {1}
    • Disease Informatics {1}
    • Consumer Health Informatics {1}
    • Alternative Medicine Informatics (Ayurinformatics, Sidda Informatics, etc)
    • Nursing Informatics, Clinical Informatics, Physical & Occupational Therapy Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Medical Research Informatics, Nutrition Informatics , Pharmacy Informatics {1,2,3}
  6. Biomechanics {1}
  7. Biomaterials (including Bioplastics) {1,2}
    • Prosthetic Engineering {1}
    • Bionics {1}
    • Nanobionics (Organic & Inorganic Nanoelectronics, Molecular electronics) (implantable & wearble) {1, 2, 3}
    • Molecule, Cellur, Biosurface & Tissue Engineering {1,2,3,4,5,6}
    • Synthetic Biology and Biomedicine? {1,2}
    • Biosensors/ Nanosensors
    • Materials Science
  8. Genetic engineering {1}
    • Modeling & Engineerring Gene Circuits
  9. Neurocognitive engineering
    • Neural Engineering {1,2}
    • Neural Control Engineering {1}
    • Neural Prostheses {1}
    • Cognitive Engineering {1}
  10. Drug Delivery & Therapeutics {1,2}
  11. Biomedical optics {1,2,3,4}
  12. Acoustics of Speech and Hearing {1,2}
  13. Dental Engineering {1}
  14. Rehabilitation engineering {1,2} (check also Prosthetic Engineering & Neural Prostheses)
  15. Clinical Engineering {1}
  16. Applied Sciences
    • Biochemistry, Biomathematics, Biophysics (Biothermodynamics, Biotransport etc), Biotechnology {1,2,3,4}
  17. Pharmaceutical Industrial Engineering {1}
  18. Health Technology Management {1}
    • Healthcare Industrial Management (Pharmaceutical & Biomedical)
    • Health Information Management {1,2,3}
    • Medical Information & Library Management
    • Hospital Engineering & Management
    • Healthcare Educational Management
    • Regulatory & Legal Issues & Management
    • Healthcare Research Management & Commercialization
  19. Engineering needs of Ayurvedic, Sidda, Unani, Homeopathic & Yoga

On Marine side, I think NITK is already working on Ships Design Lab - NITK's new lab will enable students to design ships, plants

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World class universities get rankings for a myriad dimensions, like:

1. Most beautiful college Arboretums
2. Amazing college museums
3. Luxurious student recreation centers
4. Best college quadrangle
5. Best college library
6. Best gymnasia
7. Number of restaurants
8. Art museums
9. Gardens
10. Public meditation center
11. Range of academic offerings, activities and sports
12. Faculty resources
13. Availability of financial resources
14. Alumni giving
15. Student selectivity
16. Academic peer assessment
17. World class research publications
18. Levels of global competitiveness
19. Internationalization
20. Knowledge transfer

Indian universities are nowhere if the above standards are applied. It is a pity that we do not have a single world class university in India. The ‘Education Pentagon’, which I have proposed comprising Mangaluru and Manipal should join together to form a ‘Cluster of Excellence’, wherein share facilities, could be the norm, in order to minimize the financial burden. Derlakatte region can be developed into an ‘Exclusive University Zone’, and developed on the lines of American universities.

For this to become a reality, all the stake holders need to put their heads together, and develop a master plan for setting up an ‘Exclusive University Zone’. The process could be set in motion by notifying the entire Derlakatte region as being reserved for setting up a joint World Class University, otherwise it is likely to be usurped by real estate agents and ruined because of haphazard planning and reckless destruction of greenery. The area has immense potential to be developed into a picturesque World Class University Zone, with latest state-of-the-art facilities, arcades, laneways, gardens, green spaces, water bodies, tree lined avenues, and splendid buildings, all wowing students of future generations. It should be our duty, mission and vision to develop Mangaluru into an in-demand student destination. We possess a unique ‘Education Pentagon’, developed by visionaries; it is our duty to expand its horizons for the world to envy.
As I have posted earlier Museums should also be in our choosen domains of excellence like Medical/Healthcare, Marine, Petrochemicals etc on first priority, all others next.

The central government has already planning to promote top ranking 10 government and 10 private universities as world class universities (1-greenfield?). I hope Manipal University will be one among them.

Definitely Deralakatte could be exclusive 'Knowledge Zone'. And we can also develop new one along Airport-Athrady road or Moodbidre road.

After innovate and disrupt, Karnataka government is gearing up to ‘Elevate’

Udupi: Students develop smart wrist band to facilitate senior citizens

Research Paper Publication: Srinivas Institute gets 5th position in world ranking

Considering the fact that even IIMs & ISBs also participated this is very good achievement by Srinivas Institute of Management Studies.

Mangaluru: On frog trail, team finds rare species

And there are innovative ways to make our educational infrastructure economically sustainable. Read.

Mangaluru: A class apart
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Besides growing over 400 areca trees on its campus, a school in Bantwal provides water to 45 households
India’s initial start-up district will have its first incubation centre soon
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MANGALURU: The Port city of India's first startup district will get the first start-up incubation centre at Mallikatta. It will be operational in the next four months.

Nirmala Sitharaman, Union minister for commerce and industry, visited the spaced identified for the centre in MCC Building near Mallikatta on Friday.

She said that the 6,000 sqft centre with 60 seats intake will be set up within four months with an initial funds of Rs 1.18 crore.

"This is a place where we want to give necessary basic infrastructure for any start-ups which are looking for space. They can come and get the necessary infrastructure whether it is internet connection and other necessary plug and play facilities for a very nominal rate. There are start-ups who come and ask for space for one hour per day for next three days, some others ask for working space for one week. Few may ask for space for a whole month. Depending on the demand of a start-up there should be a place to sit and work and ideate. After that they should be able to convert that into commercial strategy.

They can also sit and talk business with partners and clients. NASSCOM also has agreed to give one representative, who will be here to facilitate," the minister said.

The centre can accommodate 60 seats for start-ups who will come and have the plug and play facility for short-term or medium term, she said. "At present, those start-ups who don't have the kind of eco-system go away to other cities. We want to retain them here because lot of talent is here and lot of qualified people here. They shouldn't be going elsewhere and they should be given necessary facilities here," Nirmala said.

Industry located in the region can partner with the centre and look for solutions. Industries in the region can ask start-ups to give solutions and it should be possible here itself instead of searching start-ups elsewhere, she said. "Interaction from industry will strengthen this programme. Youth of this area will not have in the heart of the city a very good accessible place. The deputy commissioner (K G Jagadeesha) has taken a lot of interest together with the Mayor (Kavitha Sanil), who gave extraordinary support. I have released the first installment from my MPLAD funds for interior works, electrification and procurement of required equipment. It will reach the deputy commissioner soon," she said adding there will be no dearth of funds.
What facility is that with Rs.1.18 crores? What are the equipments and tools the government is providing? Looks like a 'Business Incubation Centre' than 'Technlogy Incubation Centre'. Whether schools and colleges will have their own incubation centres as per the startup scheme or not?

Startup incubation centre to come up in Mangaluru
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DC Dr K G Jagadeesha said the work on the incubation centre would be completed within four months.

The minister said that complementary to the startups, innovation hubs have been planned in NITK and NMAM Institute Of Technology, Nitte, which will be established in association Niti Ayog, in the days to come. The innovation hubs will provide a platform for interaction.
Startup Hub is individual contribution to Coastal Districts

Summa: 'Startup District' project is not Government of India project but individual contribution to Karnataka by Nirmala Sitharaman who is representing it as a member of Rajyasabha. Tinkering Labs will be setup in 20 schools and colleges. Will encourage researches in Healthcare, Science, Electricity etc.

Mangaluru: Start-up incubation centre to become functional soon - Nirmala Sitharaman
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The minister noted that the city corporation here has provided suitable space required for the centre, and it is the responsibility of the deputy commissioner of the district to develop the centre properly. She asked deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, K G Jagadeesh, to provide technical assistance, separate cabins, power, 4G internet facility, 3D printers, cafeteria and other facilities which the companies might need.

"Start-up companies can function in the incubation centre for a week or a month. They get opportunity to hold consultation with intending customers about the marketing of their products," she said. Noting that coastal Karnataka has rich human resource for this purpose, she said that the area is also ideal for industry and the youth from the area are enterprising. She added that this centre is being opened to ensure that the youth do not immigrate to other places after education in search of jobs. "Being a representative of Karnataka in Rajya Sabha, I have provided grant for the centre, and I am ready to provide additional grant if necessary," she announced.
Nirmala Sitharaman offers Rs 1.18 cr from MP fund to Mangaluru start-up incubator
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Saldanha said the incubation centre will provide start-ups with an IT ecosystem with mentoring from Nasscom. The KCCI has already held discussions with Nasscom in this regard, he said. During her visit to Mangaluru on Friday, Sitharaman had stated that she, with the help of NITI Ayog, has taken initiatives to set up innovation hubs at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka in Mangaluru and at Nitte Mahalinga Adyanthaya Memorial Institute of Technology in Udupi district.
Along with this what colleges need is workshop with facilities like CNC machines, welding machines, plastic welding/joining machines etc for making models using wood, plastic etc. (1,2,3)(Can this be clubbed with Skill Development Programme at colleges?). And we require hobby shops supplying all modeling accesories (aicraft, ship, robot etc modeling)(not only kits but also parts & individual accessories so that kids can have their own design instead of assembling ready made kit. more than what is available at Kinetic Hobbies) needed for student projects of school kids as they are not allowed to work on machines. Currently searching for these accessories is a big task.

And the state government will now completely forget to set up 'Instrumentation Incubator' & 'IT Park' in Mangaluru. Isn't it? If it happens it would just indicate failures of Mangalore MLAs to look after interest of Mangaluru. If so they deserve to be defeated in next election. Anyway good work by Mangaluru Mayor for Startup Incubation Centre.

Need to establish legal infrastructure for India to take lead in AI field: Study

How many colleges in undivided DK have introduced Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in curriculum? I hope by the end of this year every technical colleges in the region will have these subjects and MU introduces BAI/MAI (Bachelor/Master of Artificial Intelligence, another applied mathematics degree) like BCA/MCA (or BCA/MCA with AI & Data Science as specialized subjects) so that colleges teaching science & mathematics (yes, AI has application in commerce, arts, business etc) can introduce this degree. Other option is to introduce Bachelor/Master degrees in Data Science and teach AI & Big Data as part of it.

Electronic cradle for the comfort of working women

Summa: Canara Engineering College students have invented equipments like electronic cradle, electrical wire fault detection equipment, smart home, smart walking stick, mechatronics tree climber.

http://startupindia.gov.in/ launched
https://www.startupindiahub.org.in/

No idea whether the portal will provide subgroups like 'startupkudla'. Provision of localized view through 'Local Virtual Business Incubator' can help in developing local partnerships.

Start-ups to get cheaper work space as Minister taps fund
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The facility, with a capacity of 60 seats, will be operational in a month. “Two days ago, I was in Mangaluru to inspect the space given by the municipality. I was so encouraged that all 60 seats have already been booked.”
That means Mangaluru & Udupi need more seats. So, 'Instrumentation Incubator' & 'IT Park' are welcome. And hope, in near future, Mangaluru will even have cheaper 'Subsea Data Center' for startups requiring them.

Nitte university bags Rs 1 crore consultancy contract for fishery exports action plan from Odisha govt

Looks like Odisha government is taking first step towards Fisheries Resource Planning or Fisheries Informatics software system.

MoU between Alvas Engineering College & Kumamoto University, Japan

Summa: MoU includes opportunity for higher studies for lecturers and students, research assistance for new inventions, Kumamoto scholarship for students selected for research, joint technical conferences by both institutes.

Manipal startup develops wallet-weapon
Engineering students develop android-based wheelchair

St Agnes awarded 'Star College Status' by government of India

Karnataka to spend Rs 400 cr on select startups
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Karnataka government will spend Rs 400 crore to elevate 100 startups by providing them funds and mentors to help them turn their ideas into successful businesses.
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The government will hold open houses to identify startups in Mangaluru, Kalaburgi, Mysuru and Hubli, after they had pitched their ideas to Elevate Team, he (IT and BT Minister Priyank Kharge) said.
... continued in the next post in the same page

Let curse be upon those politicians or bureaucrats or any other person if they steal any idea from here to implement in the parched city or any other mega metro city.

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