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New Delhi : The Innovation Cell of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education, in collaboration with Forge and InnovatioCuris, have launched a mega online challenge – SAMADHAN – to test the ability of students to innovate.
The students participating at this challenge will search and develop such measures that can be made available to the government agencies, health services, hospitals, and other services for quick solutions to the Coronavirus epidemic and other such calamities. Apart from this, through this “Samadhan” challenge, work will be done to make citizens aware, to motivate them to face any challenge, to prevent any crisis, and to help people get livelihood.
Under the “Samadhan” challenge, the students and faculty will be motivated for doing new experiments and make new discoveries and provide them with a strong base leading to spirit of experimentation and discovery. The success of this programme depends on how effective are the ideas of participating contestants with ability to find solutions, technically and commercially, which in turn will help fight the epidemic like coronavirus.
Submission of applications to participate in this competition started from April 7, 2020. The last date for submission of applications is April 14, 2020. The names of the contestants going forward in this competition, after shortlisting,will be declared on April 17, 2020, and such contestants are expected to submit their entries between April 18-23, 2020. The final list will be released on April 24, 2020, after which the grand online jury will decide the winners on April 25, 2020, according to a PIB release.