IIT-Delhi on Wednesday launched the ‘Grassroots Innovation Program (GRIP)’ beneath which college students from rural and semi-urban areas will work on discovering new options to their recognized grassroots social issues, together with these from the neighborhood. The initiative was initiated by Prof Okay Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India.
Appreciating the initiative taken by IIT Delhi, Professor Raghavan expressed the hope that GRIP will outcome within the improvement of many modern options for the society.
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As part of this new initiative, the next two actions are proposed:
a) Social Immersion: A bunch of scholars will go to communities situated in small cities and villages to immerse themselves within the social surroundings for ample time (per week to months) to review, perceive and establish native wants and challenges, Which can presumably be addressed by college students when the institute returns to campus.
b) Grassroots Innovation Programme: As part of this, college students and scholar groups will likely be allowed to work on semester-long or year-long initiatives on discovering new options to the grassroots issues they’ve recognized.
The GRIP initiative will present college students with the bodily, mental and monetary assets to hold out these initiatives. The present programs and schemes of IIT-Delhi will likely be leveraged to implement the above programmes. This method college students could have the chance to earn educational credit score for his or her efforts.
The program may be synergized with different packages of the institute, which embrace UBA, RUTAG, NSS, ENACTUS, and so forth.
Professor V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi stated, “The GRIP initiative aims to provide resources to students who want to help by solving the problems of the society.”
IIT Delhi and Honey Bee Network (HBN), a volunteer-based community have joined palms to organize college students as pioneers of social and grassroots innovation by the GRIP programme.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
