The Government may rename the Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan after former President APJ Abdul Kalam, with HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday stating that “I want his name to be associated with the programme” he had launched earlier this month.
“I wish his name is associated with the programme as he had himself come forward to inaugurate the programme to encourage students to take up Science, Technology and Mathematics... In the coming years we will try to encourage children to innovate through Science and Technology,” HRD Minister Smriti Irani told reporters here.
HRD Ministry officials said there are a set of laid-down procedures to name a programme after heads of States and measures would be initiated before renaming it.