The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India under its “Waste to Wealth” Mission launched the “Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship”.
- The fellowship aims to recognize students, community workers/self-help groups, and municipal/sanitary workers who are engaged in tackling the enormous challenge of waste management, scientifically and sustainably.
- The Waste to Wealth Mission is one of the nine national missions of the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
- Each PM-STIAC mission is being led by a lead Ministry and will engage international and national institutional partners, young scientists and industry.
The nine missions of PM-SITAC are;
- Natural Language Translation
- Quantum Frontier
- Artificial Intelligence
- National Biodiversity
- Electric Vehicles
- BioScience for Human Health
- Waste to Wealth
- Deep Ocean Exploration
- AGNIi
