Dr. H. Purushotham, CMD, NRDC informed that NRDC has opened North Eastern Cell at Guwahati Biotech Park, Guwahati, which was inaugurated on 19th September 2017 by Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal. Hon’ble Minister of Finance of Assam, Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, Hon’ble Minister of Science & Technology of Assam, Shri Keshab Mahanta and other government dignitaries were also present in the occasion.
CMD, NRDC highlighted that the Centre would help entrepreneurs/start-ups in the North Eastern region by way of providing innovative technologies that are developed by public funded R&D organizationsacross the country. By choosing these technologies the time to market is drastically reduced and the entrepreneurs/start-ups get support from both the public funded R&D Labs/universities which developed these technologies and from NRDC in the form of handholding, mentoring, filing patents and connecting the local entrepreneurs/start-ups to Start-up India Mission.