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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited the banking sector to embrace his pet Swachh Bharat Project and asked them to finance young entrepreneurs willing to float ideas with hygiene, sanitation and cleanliness as the main themes. Modi said that ICICI Bank could think of funding at least 100,000 young entrepreneurs willing to work in areas like waste management, power generation from waste materials, public sanitation, etc over the next one year as it adds one more area of finance to its bouquet of offerings. Modi also said that a nation`s progress and its development is linked to science and technology but it also has the risk of increasing inequality and damaging the environment. He said this on Jan 3 while addressing the 102nd Indian Science Congress 2015. He said the nation`s progress and human development were linked to science and technology. Science and technology can also remove national barriers, unify the world and advance peace. Modi said the arms of science, technology and innovation must reach the poorest, the remotest and the most vulnerable person. Investments in science and technology are far too concentrated in the agencies of central government and must become more broad-based.
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