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Invest India has been contributing towards COVID relief efforts since the onset of the pandemic last year. The Business Immunity Platform as well as the Exclusive Investment Forum webinar series, which focused on notification of government’s emergency and economic relief measures, provision of crisis support services, and contribution to national COVID-19 business response effort, were recognized by the United Nations as one of the best performing Investment Promotion Agencies with respect to response to the pandemic.

NIDHI4COVID2.0 initiative has been specially devised as a rapid response to support startup driven solutions, which would be helpful in tackling the current challenging, second wave of Covid 2.0 in the country. NIDHI4COVID2.0 is a special drive of National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India (GoI) to support development and deployment of new technologies and innovative products/services which would enable our country to fight the on-going war against COVID-19 pandemic more strongly.

The ICO Fund (IKP COVID-19 Fund), an initiative of IKP Knowledge Park (IKP) in association with Funding Partners IKP Trust, BIRAC, Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd. and Tynor Orthotics Pvt. Ltd, aims to identify and fast-track technology driven solutions from entrepreneurs that are relevant to the Covid-19 pandemic. The third call for proposals supported by IKP Trust, BIRAC and AWS will identify and nurture

The Department of Biotechnology is supporting the implementation of the Ind-CEPI Mission titled ‘India Centric Epidemic Preparedness through Rapid Vaccine Development: Supporting Indian Vaccine Development Aligned with the Global Initiative of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)’ to strengthen development of vaccines for the diseases of epidemic potential in India.

To combat the COVID 19 epidemic, SERB announces special call to catalyze R&D on critical components and innovations concerning Make-in-India Oxygen Concentrators. The call seeks investigation and innovation in the development of (individual/portable) oxygen concentrators in domains of alternate materials and mechanisms for oxygen separation; design, development, and manufacturing of critical components such as valves and oil-less compressors, design improvements for greater performance, AI-optimized oxygen flow devices, and oxygen-level IoT sensors etc.