KULGAM: A District Level Exhibition and Project Competition under INSPIRE Awards – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge) was inaugurated at DIET Kulgam, today, where the students from various schools exhibited more than 100 models prepared by them.
The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kulgam, Athar Aamir Khan inaugurated the exhibition and also took overview of these projects besides interacting with the students.
DC appreciated the efforts of school children who displayed their innovative ideas through models. He further added that such exhibitions add the scientific temperament & team spirit among the young innovators.
Principal DIET Kulgam, CEO Kulgam, Officers from SCERT and other Officers of Education Department also attended the programme.
The students explained their innovations and communicated their inherent merit to all visitors and jury members. The innovations reflected a realization of national priorities like technologies for making digital India, for cleanliness and sanitation as well as local and day to day necessities like picking fruits and road safety innovations to avoid accidents, minimizing pollution etc.
About 102 models/Projects were displayed by the students and evaluated by a panel of experts including experts from National Innovative Foundation of India.
Out of the 102 models displayed by District Kulgam, 11 best models were selected for the UT Level competition at Srinagar.
It was informed by DNO that Innovation in science pursuit for inspired research (INSPIRE) scheme is one of the flagship programmes of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Government of India.
At the conclusion of the Exhibition the participants and awardees were felicitated by Principal DIET.