National Level Exhibition of INSPIRE Awards – MANAK begins

Last Updated06/09/2021

8th National Level Exhibition and Project Competition (NLEPC) for the INSPIRE Awards – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge) began on 4th september.
It is showcasing the innovative ideas from 581 students representing various States and UTs of the country.
The whole purpose of the program is to ignite a million young minds, making them part of the larger innovation-driven development within the country.

'Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research' (INSPIRE) scheme is one of the flagship programmes of Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.
The INSPIRE Awards - MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge), is being executed by DST with National Innovation Foundation – India (NIF), an autonomous body of DST.
The award aims to motivate students in the age group of 10-15 years and studying in classes 6 to 10.
The objective of the scheme is to target one million original ideas/innovations rooted in science and societal applications to foster a culture of creativity and innovative thinking among school children.
Under this scheme, schools can nominate 5 best original ideas/innovations of students through this website till 15th October,2021.

It is an innovative programme sponsored and managed by the Department of Science & Technology for attraction of talent to Science.
The basic objective of INSPIRE is to communicate to the youth of the country the excitements 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 & Technology system and R&D base.
The programme does not believe in conducting competitive exams for identification of talent at any level.
It believes in and relies on the efficacy of the existing educational structure for identification of talent.