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Students studying successful Classes 6 to 12 successful six lakh schools crossed the state are being invited to enactment successful a virtual Buildathon contention being organised by the Union Education Ministry adjacent month. Students who travel up with ideas and products with a absorption connected self-reliance, indigenous knowledge, and sustainability that tin assistance India scope its extremity of improvement by 2047 volition beryllium awarded from a ₹1 crore prize wealth pool.
The Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025, launched by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025), volition footwear disconnected with a two-hour “live innovation event” connected October 13. The extremity of the inaugural is to bring unneurotic children from each six lakh authorities and backstage schools successful the state to make ideas, according to School Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar. “There are astir 12 crore students successful these classes successful these schools, and the purpose is to get them innovating connected ideas for the future,” helium said.
Students volition past instrumentality the remainder of October to taxable their ideas and prototypes connected the Buildathon portal, from which winners volition beryllium selected astatine the district, state, and nationalist levels. The authorities volition beforehand winning ideas and get progressive successful hand-holding arsenic well, Mr. Pradhan said.
Live innovation event
The government’s contiguous purpose is to guarantee that flyers for the Buildathon, with a registration QR code, are circulated successful each schools, with Mr. Pradhan expressing his religion successful maximum participation. Registration volition beryllium unfastened till October 6, aft which teachers volition person a week to hole students for the unrecorded event.
On October 13, the students volition beryllium grouped into teams of 3 oregon 4 each to brainstorm ideas oregon statesman gathering prototypes during the two-hour lawsuit which volition beryllium live-streamed simultaneously from each participating schools, officials said. Asked whether the Ministry is offering immoderate guidance connected content, logistical support, oregon backing for the event, officials said this would beryllium near to participating schools.
A sheet of experts volition spell done the entries successful November and December to prime 1,000 district-level winners, 100 state-level winners, and 10 national-level winners, who volition beryllium announced by January 2026.
Focus connected self-reliance, swadeshi
Students are being encouraged to travel up with ideas on the lines of 4 wide themes: 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).
Mr. Pradhan, who unveiled a logo and jingle for the event, said that the inaugural “would further fortify the civilization of innovation astatine the grassroots by encouraging students to ideate and physique products” connected these themes. The Buildathon inaugural volition “celebrate pupil innovations, technologist an innovation renaissance successful the country, and guarantee that the young generations go cardinal drivers of Samriddhi, Viksit, and Atmanirbhar Bharat”, helium added.
The Buildathon is being organised by the Department of School Education and Literacy successful collaboration with the Atal Innovation Mission of the NITI Aayog and the All India Council for Technical Education. It builds connected the School Innovation Marathon 2024, which led to programmes similar the Student Innovator Programme (SIP) and Student Entrepreneurship Programme (SEP), on with patents and startup ventures from the Atal Tinkering Labs, the Ministry said successful a statement.
