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A smart, automated ration organisation project, designed by the module members of Excel Public School successful the metropolis successful a bid to betterment the Public Distribution System (PDS), has won the archetypal prize astatine the precocious held ‘My Mysuru Ideathon: Ideas for Future’.
Mahesh M.B. and Sudhakar L., module members of Excel Public School, came up with the innovative task titled ‘Ahara Dhaara’ nether the Smart Infrastructure and Mobility class of the Ideathon.
“The thought proposes a afloat automated ration organisation kiosk that uses RFID cards, biometric verification, and OTP-based entree to alteration secure, 24×7 postulation of rations, reducing corruption, improving accessibility, and restoring dignity to beneficiaries,” said a property connection here.
The Ideathon, portion of My Mysuru Vision 2030, an inaugural led by MP for Mysuru Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, had sought to crowdsource citizen-led solutions for gathering a smarter, sustainable, and inclusive Mysuru. The 2025 variation drew implicit 2,500 entries, retired of which 340 were shortlisted. The Grand Finale was held connected September 20, 2025, wherever apical 10 teams presented their projects earlier an eminent jury, the connection said.
The winners were presented with a tropy and a currency prize of ₹25,000 for task ‘Ahara Dhaara’, which was hailed arsenic a “transformative and high-impact innovation with the imaginable to streamline indispensable nationalist services”. The connection quoted Mr. Yaduveer arsenic saying that the conception aligned with Vision 2030’s absorption connected inclusion and technology-driven governance, noting that specified ideas could play a captious relation successful shaping Mysuru’s adjacent signifier of civic development.
While Mr. Mahesh said that winning the Ideathon was “an incredibly rewarding acquisition not conscionable arsenic recognition, but arsenic validation that exertion tin genuinely simplify lives erstwhile it is built with empathy”. Mr. Sudhakar said, “Ahara Dhaara was calved retired of mundane challenges we saw astir us, and this triumph inspires america to instrumentality it further from the conception to a moving exemplary that tin bring pridefulness and dignity to however citizens entree indispensable services”.
Meanwhile, the organisers person expressed involvement successful supporting a aviator implementation of ‘Ahara Dhaara’ “in enactment with Vision 2030’s extremity of integrating community-driven ideas into actionable metropolis projects,” the connection said.
Excel Public School’s main Mathew K.G. said that the task reflected the civilization of innovation nurtured astatine their school, portion president and managing manager of Excel Group Sudhanva D. appreciated the module for their originative contribution.
