<span style="color: #202124;">Principal Scientific Advisor Professor Ajay Kumar Sood on 11 February 2024, Sunday launched 'Science for Women-A Technology and Innovation (SWATI) Portal in New Delhi's Indian National Science Academy (INSA).<br />''<br />''Addressing the launch event on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Professor Sood said that the database of the SWATI Portal will serve in policy-making to address the challenges of Gender-gap.<br />''</span><br />''<span style="color: #333333;">The Portal is a complete interactive database and the first of its kind in India which is developed, hosted, and maintained by the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi. </span><span style="color: #202124;">The portal aims at creating a single online portal representing Indian Women and Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM).<br />'' </span><br />''<span style="color: #333333;">SWATI Portal looks to scale up the effort to include each and every Indian woman in science, across all career stages and subjects, spanning both Academia and the Industry enabling reliable and statistically significant long-term research.</span><br />