JAMMU, APRIL 16: In a landmark achievement in the field of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) of microchips and manufacturing, Commissioner Secretary, Science & Technology, Saurabh Bhagat, today inaugurated Himalayan Chapter of Northern India in IIT, Jammu.Saurabh Bhagat informed that this new chapter of VLSI Himalayan Chapter would provide an opportunity for IIT, Jammu, to be the fulcrum in research on VLSI, being used extensively in all computing and control devices like mobiles, cameras, automobiles, drones etc. The Northern Chapter shall cater to all Universities, R&D Institutions, IITs, NITs and IISc of states like J&K, Leh, HP and others to engage in the research and joint programmes.Commissioner Secretary apprised that Jammu & Kashmir has emerged as top performer among all the UTs and the North-Eastern States in the ranking of States on Support to Start-Up Ecosystems. He revealed that states and Union Territories have been classified into five categories including best performers, top performers, leaders, aspiring leaders and emerging start-up ecosystems. Jammu and Kashmir, which has been clubbed with UTs and the North-Eastern states including those having less than one crore population, has emerged as top performer while Meghalaya as best performer, he added.Pertinently, the Jammu and Kashmir government released a thorough start-up policy in 2018 with the goal of supporting and nurturing establishment of at least 500 new start-ups in J&K over the course of the following ten years. In the past few years, 84 start-ups have been established in J&K.
