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UPSC 2015: Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding National Innovation Foundation–India (NIF)? 1. NIF is an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology under the Central Government. 2. NIF is an initiative to strengthen the highly advanced scientific research in India’s premier scientific institutions in collaboration with highly advanced foreign scientific institutions. Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(a)1 only
(b)2 only
(c)Both 1 and 2
(d)Neither 1 nor 2
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The National Innovation Foundation-India is an autonomous body under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India; hence statement 1 is right. Its mandate is to scout and support grassroots and traditional innovations, not to promote high-end collaborative research with elite foreign laboratories, so statement 2 is wrong. Therefore only statement 1 is correct. ([dst.gov.in](https://dst.gov.in/autonomousstinstitutions/national-innovation-foundation?utm_source=openai))
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