Campus Times |Lucknow

Under the INSPIRE Award MANAK scheme of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, innovation ideas of 7,173 students from Uttar Pradesh have been chosen.

The selected students will receive an incentive amount of ₹10,000 each from the central government through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in their bank accounts to develop models or projects based on their scientific ideas.

School principals and teachers in charge of the INSPIRE Award MANAK scheme have been instructed to ensure that the bank accounts of the selected students remain active.

If any student’s bank account has pending KYC or other formalities, they should be completed immediately so that there is no obstruction in transferring the incentive amount.

Lucknow Division Leads Among 18 Divisions

Among all 18 divisions of the state, Lucknow division has secured the top position in the scheme. The highest number of 370 student ideas have been selected from Lucknow district, while a total of 906 projects has been selected from the Lucknow division at the divisional level.

Scheme to Promote Scientific Thinking

The objective of the INSPIRE Award MANAK scheme is to encourage scientific thinking and innovation among school students.

Under the scheme, students from classes 6 to 12 presented new scientific ideas or solutions to real-life problems. The best ideas were selected from these submissions.

The selected students will receive financial assistance to develop their ideas into working models, which will help promote scientific research and innovation in the future. This year, students from Basic Education schools and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas have also secured places among the selected candidates. Ideas from students of private schools have also been chosen.