WHY IN THE NEWS?

• Road Transport and Highways Minister, Nitin Gadkari has launched a knowledge App and platform CUNSULT. Emphasizing innovation, entrepreneurship, science technology, research and skill for knowledge transformation.
• The app is the first such global facility by which people who need information, advice, counsel, guidance can contact and call up experts in multiple sectors.
• The app will be a forum for mentors to share their life experiences. The app will allow people to learn from the wisdom which has been acquired over a lifetime.
• Each expert also gets a unique, exclusive page reflecting their contributions by way of articles and video blogs and this serves as their intellectual legacy and helps to promote interest in them.
• CUNSULT uses the framework of context and convergence to instantly connect knowledge seekers and knowledge givers.