*LG congratulates awardees
Excelsior Correspondent
KARGIL, Jan 5: Najuma Hybatullah and Mansoor Mehdi, two Class 10th students of Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) Kargil has been awarded prestigious INSPIRE Award.
On being awarded the prestigious award, Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh R K Mathur has extended congratulations to both the students.
“LG #Ladakh congratulates, Najuma Hybatullah&Mansoor Mehdi of Class X, Kendra Vidyalaya # Kargil, for being awarded the prestigious #InspireAward conferred by the Min of S&T,GoI. @ MinScTechGoI……Sh @R_K_Mathur stated that they will inspire many more students with this achievement,” the LG office said in a tweet posted tonight.
Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) scheme is on of the flagship programmes of Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. The INSPIRE Awards-MANAK (million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge), being executed by DST with National Innovation Foundation (NIF) India, an autonomous body of DST, aims to motivate students in the age group of 10-15 years and studying in classes 6to 10th.
Under the scheme, all the schools across the country nominated 5 best original ideas/innovations of students and out of these one lakh ideas with potential to address societal needs through Science & Technology were shortlisted by NIF and an award of Rs 10,000 were disbursed into the bank accounts of short-listed students through Direct Benefit Transfer scheme.
Further, 10,000 best ideas/innovations will be shortlisted for State Level Exhibition and Project Competitions wherein top 1000 ideas/innovations will be shortlisted for the National Level Exhibition and Project Competition (NLEPC). Finally, top 60 innovations will be shortlisted for national awards and future directions.
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