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The decennial review of the programme brought out the clearly
felt need of strengthening programme based between DST &
State S&T Councils and amongst themselves. The approach
for programme based support was developed and crystallized
during the Eighth Five Year Plan. Based on the ground work
completed in the Eighth Five Year Plan and first two year
of Ninth Five Year Plan, DST embarked upon a new initiative
to support specific programmes aimed at socio economic development
through S&T intervention to various states. With the
beginning of programme support, all the objectives of the
State S&T Councils programme were activated leading
to a “Phase Change” and the programme under
went major transformation.
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