Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI) - Background Context
The Department of Science & Technology has initiated a special scheme called “Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI)”.
About the scheme
Aim: To deal with the necessity for building shared, professionally managed, and powerful S&T infrastructure within the country which is quickly accessible to academia, start-ups, manufacturing & production, processing industry, and R&D labs, etc.
Implementation
These Centres are expected to deal with major analytical instruments to supply common services of high-end analytical testing, thus avoiding ambiguity & duplication and minimizing dependency on foreign sources.
Transparent and open access policy operations.
DST has already found three such establishments within the country they are
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - (IIT-Kharagpur)
- Indian Institute of Technology - (IIT-Delhi)
- Banaras Hindu University - (IIT-Varanasi)
Objectives of the Scheme
To address the issues of intelligible (accessibility), maintenance, redundancy, and duplication of pricy equipment within the institutions.
This will also encourage a robust culture of cooperation between institutions and across regimens to benefit advantage of developments, innovations, and expertise in a wide variety of areas.
