No creative voice should go unheard: Prez

No creative voice of India should remain unheard in the future, President Pranab Mukherjee said here today as he batted for the young innovative minds working in the country.
"We have to now institutionalise the culture of innovation at all levels of public administration so that tales of persistent neglect of Indian genius become a matter of past.
"In future, no creative voice should remain unheard, no innovative mind should remain unengaged and no story of institutional transformation should remain untold to our young generation," Mukherjee said while presenting the 7th biennial grassroots innovations awards at Rashtrapati Bhawan here.
The President said such innovators should get good financial support to take forward their skills.

"I realize that unless financial support is available at an early stage of risky innovative ventures, the aspirations of thousands of creative people will remain unfulfilled. We have to collectively ensure that no idea remains unattended for want of sufficient support.
"Unless the National Innovation Foundation begins with the incubation of two to three thousand ideas, it will not get those few hundred potentially viable leads which may eventually generate twenty to thirty breakthroughs in the market place. We need to work collectively to ensure that all potential ideas are exploited in the larger national interest," he said.