INSPIRE Awards - MANAK

 The scheme was initially launched by

the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 13th
December 2008 and was implemented
in 2009-10.
 Department of Science and
Technology (DST), Government of
India and National Innovation
Foundation-India (NIF) are executing
the INSPIRE Awards - MANAK scheme.
 Scheme covers students in the age
group of 10-15 years (class 6-10).
 Workflow & Support Model
Invite
Nomination from
10,00,000 all schools of
country
School Support of Rs 10,000 to each student

Process
1,00,000 District Level Exhibition and Project Nomination &
District Competition (DLEPC) Transfer of
Award money

State Level Exhibition & Project

State 10,000
Competition (SLEPC) Organization of
D/S/NLEPC
Mentoring support to students for
development of prototypes

National 1,000
National Level Exhibition & Project
Competition (NLEPC)
Display of top 60
ideas/innovations
Product / Process development & their at FINE.
linkage with other schemes of DST/NIF
60
Few Examples !!!
 Intelligent Goggles for Blind
Anang Tadar | Papum Pare, Arunachal Pradesh

• Problem: Blind man sticks/smart walking

sticks help visually impaired people to
navigate are available, which could detect
obstacles at the ground but nothing is
available, which could detect obstacles at
waist level or above.
• Idea: Smart goggles, which could detect
obstacles present ahead of the visually
challenged people and give an alert in the
form of vibration.
 Saving Water through Usage Monitor
Shrutiparnna Ratha| Khurda, Orissa

• Problem: Wastage of
water every day.

• Idea: To have a water

usage monitoring
system using which
one can keep track of
the usage of water.
 Automatic Food Making Machine
Abhishek Bhagat | Bhagalpur, Bihar

• Problem: Repeating the

same steps to prepare food
daily.
• Idea: Steps could be
recorded and a machine can
be made that could do
these steps, food could be
cooked automatically and
with the same taste.
 Modified Walker with Adjustable Leg
Shalini Kumari | Patna, Bihar

• Problem: Difficulty to walk up

or down stairs using
conventional four leg walkers.
• Idea: Mechanically alter the
height of the legs of the walker
so that they can be adjusted as
per the height of the stairs.
 What kind of submissions will not be encouraged?

(Examples include but are not limited to the following:)

Common ideas/concepts from textbooks/others, which includes:
• Energy generator, generation of electricity through turbines/waste
batteries/dung/transport/wave etc.
• Rain water harvesting, earthquake, soil erosion
• Water level indicator
• Alarms-burglar alarms, gas alarms, fire alarms etc
• Vermi compost/vermi wash
• Letter box farm
• Conversion of wind energy, solar energy to electricity
• Hydraulic lift
• Drip irrigation, vacuum cleaner
 Continue…
• RFID and sensor based readymade projects.
• Automatic on/off of street light, smart city
• Essay on topics
• Demonstration of volcanic eruption
• Food adulteration
• Carbon cycle/water cycle, food chain, eco system,
photosynthesis, zoo model, kitchen garden.
• Model on human body parts
• Solar system, planet, earth movement.
• General methods of water filtration, self watering system for
plants.
 Short-listing of Ideas/Innovations
Practical/Scientific
Should be based on current knowledge of science and should not be hypothetical;
should be implementable.
Degree of novelty
Is there anything new in the idea? If yes, how much is it different and what advantage
will it bring?
Solving existing problem
Does the project solve/address any common problem for which no solution is available
or if available is it sub-optimal.

Social Applicability/Usefulness
How is the idea related to social, gender, environmental context - does it address issues
of under privileged/ physically challenged, reduces drudgery for women, mechanics,
farmers, artisans, etc.; is it environment friendly?
 Short-listing of Ideas/Innovations
Cost effectiveness
Does the project reduces cost of an operation times without any accuracy loss, health/
financial or environment concern.

Scope of diffusion
Social or Commercial - whether the project can be put to practical use? scale may be
large or small, does not matter.

User friendliness
Is the project user friendly or not? what will the use of a great idea, if it cannot be used
by people intended for/ or implemented

Relevance in Current Govt. Schemes

Does the project align to any of the current Govt. schemes like Swatch Bharat, Start-up
India, Digital India, etc.
 User Manual of
INSPIRE Awards-MANAK
Review Portal

http://online.nifindia.org/login
Dashboard
Review

Click on the ‘Pending’ tab to

check the student details
Idea/Innovation details

Check the details: Brief description, Video, Audio, Photos

submitted by students
Marking as per criteria

• Click on ‘Submit Review’ to

complete the review

• Click on ‘Back To Entries’ for the

review of new entries
Update the mark of reviewed entries
Step 1:
Filter reviewed
entries and click
on the ‘Search’

Step 2:
Click on
‘Reviewed’ tab to
update the marks
 Update the marks of reviewed entries

Step 3:
After changing the
marks, click on
‘Update Review’
THANK YOU