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The Union Education Ministry’s Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 was inaugurated connected Monday (October 13, 2025) by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, with astir 1 crore students from crossed 3 lakh schools successful the state participating successful what the authorities has billed arsenic “India’s largest synchronised innovation hackathon for schoolhouse students”.
Last month, the Centre had announced the Buildathon event, inviting students from Classes VI to XII to travel up with ideas and merchandise prototypes that volition assistance India execute its extremity of a Viksit Bharat by 2047. The two-hour “live innovation event” connected Monday saw teams of 3-5 students crossed the implicit 3-lakh participating schools stitchery to brainstorm ideas oregon statesman gathering prototypes.
Inaugurating the Buildathon, Mr. Pradhan said, “Confident that the innovative ideas germinated from present volition pave the mode for creating caller planetary models and uncovering solutions to pressing home and planetary challenges.” The Minister interacted with participating students astatine the PM SHRI Government High School successful Odisha’s Khorda and visited the Delhi Public School and a Kendriya Vidyalaya successful the National Capital, a authorities connection said.
The connection from the Education Ministry added that Mr. Pradhan besides attended a people connected mathematics for Class I students astatine the Kendriya Vidyalaya successful Delhi.
Mr. Pradhan said, “Viksit and Samriddh Bharat would beryllium built connected the shoulders of our talented schoolhouse students,” adding that the Prime Minister’s imaginativeness of a developed India by 2047 “will beryllium realised done transformative efforts similar VBB”, besides urging students to play an progressive relation successful shaping the nation’s future.
The Education Ministry, which was targetting information from each six-lakh secondary and higher secondary schools crossed the country, said implicit 3 lakh schools participated successful the unrecorded innovation event. The highest fig of schools that registered for information were from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, and Assam.
Four cardinal themes
The Ministry claimed that the two-hour unrecorded league was attended by implicit 1 crore students, who worked successful teams of 3 to five, connected ideas astir 4 cardinal themes. These themes included Atmanirbhar Bharat (building self-reliant systems, tools, and solutions), Swadeshi (fostering indigenous ideas, knowledge, and innovation), Vocal for Local (promoting section products and resources), and Samriddh Bharat (creating pathways to prosperity and sustainable development).
School Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar termed the Buildathon a “one-of-a-kind movement” that would “enhance learning capabilities and fortify the innovative attack of students”.
The Ministry has stated that groups of winners volition beryllium selected based connected their entries done the Viksit Bharat Buildathon portal, and volition beryllium awarded prize wealth from a ₹1-crore pool. The participating pupil teams present person till the extremity of the period to enactment with their teachers to officially taxable their entries to the portal.
These entries volition past beryllium examined by a sheet of experts, who volition deliberate done November and December, pursuing which 1,000 district-level winners, 100 State-level winners, and 10 national-level winners volition beryllium announced by January 2026.
