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Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Ignited Mind children creativity and innovation Awards Final Result 2023

Sr. No. Name District Stateand UTs Class School Name Title Problem Idea Solution 1. Aditya Raj Chopra Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh 10th DPS Indirapu-ram, Ghaziabad Revolutionizing LED Lighting: The G.LED Bulb for Sustainability and Cost-Efficiency Reduces carbon emissions and earn carbon credits, by reduced use of plastic and aluminumin LED lightening Industries. It also reduces replacementcost … Continue reading

Children / Creativity / Education / General / Grassroots Innovation / social innovation / women

शिक्षा में TLM का उपयोग

सजना तलावडी प्रायमरी स्कूल, करमसद, आनंद जिनिशा बहन शाह ने बच्चों के लिए 100 से अधिक TLM बनाया है। जिससे बच्चे अपने अभ्यासक्रम को खेलते खेलते सीख लेते है। दूसरा इस सभी TLM बनाने का वीडियो बनाकर अपनी युट्युब चेनल पर डाला हुआ है। जो टीचर को TLM बनाना है वो इस विडियो के माध्यम … Continue reading

Art Culture Society / Biodiversity / Children / food and nutrition / policy / shodhyatra / Uncategorized / women

Searching where is the light is: Focus on hotspots of sufficiency to seek answers for malnutrition

There is an old apocryphal story of an old women. She had lost a needle in a dark place. But she was searching where the light is. She is lampooned for this seemingly irrational act. True, under the lamp post, she would not find her needle but may be, she might find something else, may … Continue reading

Ecology/ Environment / Ethics / social innovation / women

Tracking social trajectory: Indicators of civilisational maturity

Indian society is passing through a critical phase. The rise of entrepreneurial aspirations, as I said last week, has given rise to a justifiable rise in material and consumptive ambitions. But when these ambitions overtake other values in society, something precious is likely to be sacrificed. Therefore, financial capital should be balanced along with ethical, … Continue reading

Awards / Biodiversity / Creativity / Ecology/ Environment / Innovation / social innovation / Uncategorized / women

Shrimati Ritaben Vora for outstanding contribution in women empowerment, livelihood generation, education on agricultural value addition and organic farming.

Rita Ben Batuk Bhai Vora  (M) : 9428210652 My father pursued the concept of a new training based on Gandhian philosophy, his study, and later in his life he happened to work in such organizations. He studied in Lokbharati Sanosara which emphasised training based on national education / gramachmukh folk philosophy and there after he … Continue reading

Children / Creativity / Education / frugal innovations / Innovation / Research / social innovation / technology / women

SRISTI – UNICEF Summer Innovation School 2017

SRISTI Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions SRISTI –  UNICEF Summer Innovation School 2017 संवेदना   C R E A T I V I T Y से   F R O M सृजनशीलता  E M P A T H Y How about working together with other innovation champions  in designing empathetic innovative products, … Continue reading

Awards / Children / Creativity / frugal innovations / Inclusive innovation / Innovation / policy / Start-ups / technology / Uncategorized / women

a legacy of inclusive grassroots innovation

What is common among Santosh Pachar, a lady farmer from Rajasthan, Paresh Panchal, a mechanic from Gujarat, Akash a tenth class student from Tamil Nadu, Shalini, a student from Patna and six other innovators from around the country?Hosted by The President of India as innovation scholar in residence along with two artists and writers at … Continue reading

Innovation / Research / women

Innovations by Women : Why are They so Obscure

In my recent book on Grassroots Innovations ( 2016, http://www.amazon.in/Grassroots-Innovation-Minds-Margin-Marginal/dp/8184005873) I describe this dilemma and I quote: “The role of women in grassroots innovations has thus remained rather obscure. The number of innovations by women has also been rather small in the Honey Bee database compared to their real-life societal contributions. There could be many reasons … Continue reading