Q. It is one-of-its-kind incubation program exclusively for hardware startups in India. It is jointly organized by the Central Government’s Department of Science & Technology, Intel, & IIT Bombay’s SINE to facilitate hardware & systems-based innovation. The name of the programme is _?
Answer: PLUGIN
Notes: In order to boost the hardware startups ecosystem in the country, the Indian arm of global tech company Intel has launched a hardware incubator programme called Plugin. The programme is being implemented in collaboration with IIT Bombay’s Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) and central government’s Department of Science & Technology. Under this initiative, around 20 intellectual property-driven hardware and system startups will get incubated in the first year. The initial focus would be on selecting hardware startups working in areas such as security, graphics, display, IoT, healthcare, data centres, and cloud.