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National Technology Day is celebrated every year on May 11 to celebrate the history of India’s technological innovations and excellence. The significance of this day holds in the fact that India successfully tested nuclear bombs in Pokhran on May 11, 1998.
The indigenous aircraft “Hansa-3” was test flown from Bangalore on this day and India also performed successful test firing of the Trishul missile on the same day. Considering the technological advancements, the then Prime Minister, Shri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, declared 11th May to be celebrated as National Technology Day every year.
According to the Hon’ble President, Pranab Mukherjee, “The National Technology Day is symbolic of our quest for scientific inquiry and technological excellence, and a translation of that quest into an integrated scientific, societal and industrial approach. It marks not only our technological innovations but their successful commercialization making the fruits of painstaking research available to the people at large.”
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Technology Day is celebrated as a symbol of quest for scientific inquiry, technological creativity and the translation of that quest in the integration of Science, Society and Industry. This day is also celebrated to honor technological innovations and their successful commercialization which takes the fruits of research to reach to people at large. On this day many scientific institutions, Universities, Colleges, Organizations, plan and organize events and programmes to generate awareness among the students, academia, general public, etc., about the importance of Technology Day through lectures, seminars, Quiz programmes, exhibitions, elocution, etc.
National Technology Day, celebration in 2016 was marked as “Technology enablers of Startup India”. On this occasion the Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherje felicitated National Technology Award to the scientist for their contributions to science & technology at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
Technology Development Board instituted the National Award of ₹ 10 lakh which is given to industrial concerns that have displayed excellence in commercializing the indigenous technology.
Hon’ble President appreciated the untiring efforts and missionary zeal of dedicated scientists and technologists of our nation that has paved the way for India’s emergence as a technology power.