Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research
(INSPIRE) Wards 2016-17 in TS & AP
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Click here to Download Selected List In Telangana all Districts
Click here to Download Selected List In Andhrapradesh all Districts
Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research
(INSPIRE) Wards 2016-17 In Telangana & Andhrapradesh States. Download List of all Schools of
Telangana Districts with Mandal wise and School wise. Inspire Awards 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 the programme 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.
Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research
(INSPIRE)" 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 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, Thirteen Lakh
Eighty Five Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Three INSPIRE Awards have
been sanctioned till date Annexure .
Under the INSPIRE Internship, as on date about 800 Science Camps have been held
covering about 1.90 lakh students in the age group of 16-17 years, 40 Nobel
Laureates and about 8000 resource persons participated in these camps. About
28000 scholarships for students in the age group of 17-22 years have been given
and about 2900 INSPIRE Fellows in the age group of 22 -27 years have been
enrolled so far. Finally, under the Faculty Award for Assured Career, 378
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 28 states and 7 UTs are participating in the scheme. The
scheme will continue in the 12th Five year Plan.
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 plans 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.
1.
DLEPC: District Level Exhibition and Project Competition,
2.
SLEPC: State Level Exhibition and Project Competition,
3.
NLEPC: National Level Exhibition and Project Competition