Haryana

• 09 Jan 2023

INSPIRE Award Scheme

Why In News?

• On January 8, 2023, the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India released a list for the INSPIRE Award Scheme session 2022-23 for all the states, in which 329 students from Haryana state have been selected.

Key Points

• INSPIRE Award is organized every year with the aim of motivating the children of government schools to innovate. To participate in the INSPIRE Award competition, children have to register online. Then children have to send ideas online.
• The main objective of INSPIRE standard award scheme is to promote scientific thinking among students.
• Apart from Haryana, 1854 students from other states like Madhya Pradesh, 1657 students from Jharkhand, 901 students from Uttar Pradesh and 5993 students from Rajasthan have been selected under INSPIRE standard award scheme.
• Each student will be given ten thousand rupees to make a science model. This award money will be given to the selected students by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.
• Students who develop new scientific ideas and build models based on science will get this amount. With this amount, students will prepare science models. They will be exhibited at the district level INSPIRE Standard Model Exhibition to be held in future.