CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Recently, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT)-National Brain Research Centre (DBT-NBRC) has developed Project SWADESH, for managing Neurological disorders.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated Project SWADESH.

Detailed explanation-3: -The major components of SWADESH are big data management and analytics framework, data acquisition and visualization and applications. It was inaugurated by Dr Jitendra Sing, the Union Minister of State for Ministry of Science and Technology in November 2021.

Detailed explanation-4: -DBT-National Brain Research Centre (DBT-NBRC) have recently developed project SWADESH, a unique brain initiative focusing on certified neuroimaging, neurochemical, neuropsychological data and analytics that are made accessible to researchers for managing brain disorders.

Detailed explanation-5: -SWADESH is the first large-scale multimodal neuroimaging database designed specifically for the Indian population with big-data architecture and analytics for various disease categories under one platform.