The Uttar Pradesh government’s Department of Science and Technology has approved over 100 research studies on using technologies like artificial intelligence and block chain in sectors like healthcare and renewable energy. These studies are aimed at developing applications and systems for early throat cancer detection in tobacco users, correcting sitting posture among desk workers, aiding people with disability with special wheelchairs, etc. The research proposals were approved at a meeting in Lucknow on October 5 and will cost an expenditure of Rs 14 crore. The studies will be conducted by leading educational institutes, such as IIT-Kanpur, MNNIT and KGMU.