The 4th National Level Exhibition and Project Competitions (NLEPC) Scheduled During October 6-8, 2014.
The 4th National Level Exhibition and Project Competitions (NLEPC) Scheduled During October 6-8, 2014.
The 4th NLEPC under the INSPIRE Award Scheme is being organized by Department of Science & Technology at ITPO, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi during October 6-8, 2014. About 950 selected Awardees from all over the country are expected to participate in the event. The projects would be evaluated by a high level Jury.
Shri Ajit Kumar Seth, IAS, Cabinet Secretary, will formally open the exhibition on October 6, 2014. The National Award Presentation Ceremony is scheduled on 8.10.2014. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest of the ceremony.
The Exhibition would be open for visit by school children / teachers from 1000 hrs to 1300 hours on October 7, 2014. Free entry will be facilitated from Gate No. 7 of ITPO. (Visits on 6th October, 2014 can also be arranged, for which Headmasters / Headmistresses / Principals of Schools can contact either Sh. Rajiv Malik, Under Secretary (us.inspire-dst@nic.in), or Dr Sandeep Bansal, Scientist C (sandeep.bansal@nic.in))
Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) is a National Programme implemented by the Ministry for attraction of talent amongst students to study science and pursue career with research.
The basic objective of INSPIRE is to communicate to the youth of the country the excitement of creative pursuit of science, attract talent to the study of science at an early age and thus build the required critical human resource pool for strengthening and expanding the science and technology system and R&D base. The programme was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 13th December 2008. The implementation started during 2009-10.
INSPIRE Programme covers students in the age group 10-32 years, and has five components: INSPIRE Award (for 10-15 age group), INSPIRE Internship at a science camp with opportunity for interaction with global science leaders (for 16-17 age group), INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) @ Rs 80000/ per year for continuing education at B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels (for 17-22 age group), INSPIRE Fellowship for doctoral research (for 22-27 age group) and INSPIRE faculty for assured career opportunity (for 27-32 age group).
In so far as INSPIRE Award component is concerned, more than 11 lakhs INSPIRE Awards have been sanctioned till date (state wise details at Annexure-I). Under the INSPIRE Internship, as on date, about 1046 Science Camps have been held covering about 2.33 lakh students in the age group of 16-17 years, 40 Nobel Laureates and about 8000 resource persons participated in these camps. About 46000 scholarships for students in the age group of 17-22 years have been given and about 4100 INSPIRE Fellows in the age group of 22 -27 years have been enrolled so far. Finally, under the Faculty Award for Assured Career, 573 individuals have been awarded inspire faculty fellowship for initiating research work in various universities/ academic institutions/ laboratories in the country.
The first component, viz INSPIRE Award, is implemented centrally through the States/UTs. Under this scheme, during the five year period two students are selected from each school of the country for an INSPIRE Award of Rs.5000/- each for preparing a Science Project / Model. These awardees, who are students from classes 6th to 10th, then participate in a three tier competition: District, State and National Level. The projects exhibited are evaluated by a jury of experts. All the 29 states and 7 UTs are participating in the scheme.
Merit based selection of students for INSPIRE Awards is done by the Head Master / Head Mistress / Principal of each school, who is required to send nomination of best children, having aptitude for science, with all relevant details, to the District Education Authorities, who will send these to DST through State Education Authorities. All middle and high schools in the country, (having classes 6th to 8th) including private schools, are eligible to participate in the scheme.
Under the INSPIRE Award Scheme, large number of nominations, running into lakhs, have to be processed for selection of the students for INSPIRE Award. DST has started to e-manage the entire INSPIRE Award Scheme by using State-of-Art latest Information Technology which would enable e-filing of nominations by the schools across the country, its processing by the District and State authorities as well as DST in accordance with the norms of the scheme, transmission of data of selected students to the banks, credit of Award amount to the bank accounts of selected Awardees (wherever notified) or preparation of INSPIRE Award Warrants by the bank and their dispatch to the selected Awardees and all such related activities concerning implementation of the scheme, management of the data, generation of various MIS returns etc.
Under the INSPIRE Award Scheme, more than 11 lakhs INSPIRE Awards have been sanctioned till date (As per the Annexure I). About 47.61 % of the awardees are girls and 25.85% SCs/STs. More than 6.5 lakh awardees have participated in the DLEPCs, and about 45000 best entries of DLEPC have participated in the SLEPCs. 2573 science projects/models selected from SLEPCs participated in the three NLEPCs held at Delhi. Out of the 2573 projects which participated in the three NLEPCs held so far 10 inventions from first NLEPC have been filed for complete specification (As per the Annexure II) and about 250 have been shortlisted by the Patent Facilitating Centre of TIFAC for detailed examination for possible patenting in some cases. About 950 science projects/models are expected to participate in the 4th NLEPC scheduled at Delhi from 6-8, October 2014. As on date, an amount of Rs. 696.11 crore has been spent so far on the scheme, out of which Rs. 118.25 crore has been released to the States/UTs to meet the expenditure in connection with organizing competitions at various levels. An MoU has been signed between DST and ITPO for the conduct of NLEPCs.
Shri Ajit Kumar Seth, IAS, Cabinet Secretary, will formally open the exhibition on October 6, 2014. The National Award Presentation Ceremony is scheduled on 8.10.2014. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest of the ceremony.
The Exhibition would be open for visit by school children / teachers from 1000 hrs to 1300 hours on October 7, 2014. Free entry will be facilitated from Gate No. 7 of ITPO. (Visits on 6th October, 2014 can also be arranged, for which Headmasters / Headmistresses / Principals of Schools can contact either Sh. Rajiv Malik, Under Secretary (us.inspire-dst@nic.in), or Dr Sandeep Bansal, Scientist C (sandeep.bansal@nic.in))
Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) is a National Programme implemented by the Ministry for attraction of talent amongst students to study science and pursue career with research.
The basic objective of INSPIRE is to communicate to the youth of the country the excitement of creative pursuit of science, attract talent to the study of science at an early age and thus build the required critical human resource pool for strengthening and expanding the science and technology system and R&D base. The programme was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 13th December 2008. The implementation started during 2009-10.
INSPIRE Programme covers students in the age group 10-32 years, and has five components: INSPIRE Award (for 10-15 age group), INSPIRE Internship at a science camp with opportunity for interaction with global science leaders (for 16-17 age group), INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) @ Rs 80000/ per year for continuing education at B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels (for 17-22 age group), INSPIRE Fellowship for doctoral research (for 22-27 age group) and INSPIRE faculty for assured career opportunity (for 27-32 age group).
In so far as INSPIRE Award component is concerned, more than 11 lakhs INSPIRE Awards have been sanctioned till date (state wise details at Annexure-I). Under the INSPIRE Internship, as on date, about 1046 Science Camps have been held covering about 2.33 lakh students in the age group of 16-17 years, 40 Nobel Laureates and about 8000 resource persons participated in these camps. About 46000 scholarships for students in the age group of 17-22 years have been given and about 4100 INSPIRE Fellows in the age group of 22 -27 years have been enrolled so far. Finally, under the Faculty Award for Assured Career, 573 individuals have been awarded inspire faculty fellowship for initiating research work in various universities/ academic institutions/ laboratories in the country.
The first component, viz INSPIRE Award, is implemented centrally through the States/UTs. Under this scheme, during the five year period two students are selected from each school of the country for an INSPIRE Award of Rs.5000/- each for preparing a Science Project / Model. These awardees, who are students from classes 6th to 10th, then participate in a three tier competition: District, State and National Level. The projects exhibited are evaluated by a jury of experts. All the 29 states and 7 UTs are participating in the scheme.
Merit based selection of students for INSPIRE Awards is done by the Head Master / Head Mistress / Principal of each school, who is required to send nomination of best children, having aptitude for science, with all relevant details, to the District Education Authorities, who will send these to DST through State Education Authorities. All middle and high schools in the country, (having classes 6th to 8th) including private schools, are eligible to participate in the scheme.
Under the INSPIRE Award Scheme, large number of nominations, running into lakhs, have to be processed for selection of the students for INSPIRE Award. DST has started to e-manage the entire INSPIRE Award Scheme by using State-of-Art latest Information Technology which would enable e-filing of nominations by the schools across the country, its processing by the District and State authorities as well as DST in accordance with the norms of the scheme, transmission of data of selected students to the banks, credit of Award amount to the bank accounts of selected Awardees (wherever notified) or preparation of INSPIRE Award Warrants by the bank and their dispatch to the selected Awardees and all such related activities concerning implementation of the scheme, management of the data, generation of various MIS returns etc.
Under the INSPIRE Award Scheme, more than 11 lakhs INSPIRE Awards have been sanctioned till date (As per the Annexure I). About 47.61 % of the awardees are girls and 25.85% SCs/STs. More than 6.5 lakh awardees have participated in the DLEPCs, and about 45000 best entries of DLEPC have participated in the SLEPCs. 2573 science projects/models selected from SLEPCs participated in the three NLEPCs held at Delhi. Out of the 2573 projects which participated in the three NLEPCs held so far 10 inventions from first NLEPC have been filed for complete specification (As per the Annexure II) and about 250 have been shortlisted by the Patent Facilitating Centre of TIFAC for detailed examination for possible patenting in some cases. About 950 science projects/models are expected to participate in the 4th NLEPC scheduled at Delhi from 6-8, October 2014. As on date, an amount of Rs. 696.11 crore has been spent so far on the scheme, out of which Rs. 118.25 crore has been released to the States/UTs to meet the expenditure in connection with organizing competitions at various levels. An MoU has been signed between DST and ITPO for the conduct of NLEPCs.
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First Published: Oct 03 2014 | 12:21 AM IST