Alok Kumar Chaudhary, who is felicitated with the highest honour to youth Award in the area of science popularization by the Government of India is selected as an ambassador for the engagement programme of G20. This is a big achievement for the people of the science community and especially for the state of Jharkhand. Alok Kumar Chaudhary is a young and effective science communicator of India who is working in the science popularization field for a long time with the coordinator of Vigyan Prasar Department of Science and Technology, NITI Aayog, Department of Atomic Energy etc.
Chaudhary is working with the vision of “Vigyan dwara Vikas (Development by Science)”. Alok says that the country needs scientific and innovative thinking development in the students of India so that students can think innovative and develop new and innovative products and start a start-up. Start-ups can generate a lot of jobs and progress in the country. That’s why he decided to popularize science and innovation among the students by establishing a science club in 2011 that is affiliated with Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
Looking at the very good work of the club, Vigyan Prasar, awarded four times gold category awards for different years. Later due to the effective science communication work among students and people, the Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog selected him for mentoring the students of three Atal tinkering Labs established at different schools in India by the Government of India. Here the same Alok performed well, and many digital products were developed by students under his guidance, promoted for the whole Jharkhand state Regional mentor of change.
Alok says that he is worried about Jharkhand being the lowest innovation index state in the nation while Jharkhand is a major and resourceful state of India. And he wants to contribute as much as he can to improve the innovation index of the nation. In this journey, only in the last 3 years have more than 2 lakh people been directly by his activities. Meanwhile, He has also volunteered in the different activities of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangthan, National Service Scheme, Department of Atomic energy etc.
