Three Bhubaneswar-based DAV Public Schools have been selected by the NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) to set up Atal Tinkering laboratories (ATls) to create scientific temper and cultivate spirit of curiosity and innovations among students of Grade-VI to Grade-XII.
A total of 257 schools from across the country, including DAV Public Schools of Chandrasekharpur, Pokhariput and Unit VIII, were selected through five rigorous and challenging rounds.
As a part of this recognition, the AIM will provide grant-in-aid of one-time establishment cost of `10 lakh and operational cost of `10 lakh to each school for establishment of ATls.
Asutosh Nayak of Standard XII and Saswat Das of Standard XI from DAV School, Chandrasekharpur took up the innovative challenge with their projects on ‘Smart Sewage Treatment’ and ‘App-based alert system at railway level-crossing’ under the guidance of academic coordinator Indira Bhatacharjee , PGT (Biology) Subhoipta Jena.
School management committee chairman Madan Mohan Panda, Dr KC Satpahty, Principal-cum-Regional Director of DAV Institutes, Odisha Zone and parents lauded the achievement of the three schools.