Mission Integrated Bio-Refineries

Current Context: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launched Mission Integrated Bio-refineries to accelerate Clean Energy solutions through Public-Private Alliances.

• It will be a Public-private partnership mode initiative to produce clean energy.
• This is to reiterate India’s commitment to a low-carbon future through Mission Innovation.
• Dr. Singh announced the funding opportunity of Hydrogen Valley Platform - a global initiative to optimize the hydrogen demand and supply by onsite generation and utilization.
• Dr. Singh also launched 3 Material Acceleration Platforms (MAPS), namely –
• Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platform on Storage
• Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platform on Materials
• Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platform on Bioenergy and Hydrogen
• These 3 MAPS have been set up by the Department of Science and Technology at a total cost of $ 6 Million USD to leverage next-generation computing, Artificial Intelligence, robotics, etc to accelerate the pace of material recovery 10 times faster.

Question:

Q.1 Material Acceleration Platforms (MAPS) program has been launched by?
a. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
b. Department of Information Technology
c. Department of Science and Technology
d. Department of Food and Public Distribution