The Son of soil, Anubhav, who won the Inspire Award by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India will visit Japan in May this year.
Anubhav is selected for education exchange programme under Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Programme in Science (SAKURA exchange programme in Science).
Hailing from a very poor family, Anubhav is a resident of Shivpuri colony Sector-6 in Bokaro. His father runs a grocery shop in a hut at footpath to make both ends meet.
He got Inspire Award, under Attraction of Talents for Science and selected for educational exchange programme. His project on ‘Hybrid Solar Panel’ was selected for the award in 2012.
Presently, he is doing Bachelor in engineering from Jaipur.
“In order to seed and experience the joy of innovation, every year 2 lakh schoolchildren in the age group of 10 to 15 years (Class VI to X) are identified for the Inspire Award.
Each Inspire Award envisions an investment of Rs5,000 per child, said an official.
“The scheme plans to reach at least two students per secondary school during the next five years”, he added.
Inspire Scheme has included three components. They are Scheme for Early Attraction of Talents for Science (SEATS), Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) and Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC).
SAKURA Exchange Programme in Science, is the programme for enhancing exchanges between Asia and Japan of the youths who will play a crucial role in the future field of science and technology through the close collaboration of industry-academia-government by facilitating short-term visits of competent Asian youths to Japan, said Anubhav.
“This programme aims at raising the interest of Asian youths toward the leading Japanese Science and Technologies at Japanese universities, research institutions and private companies”,
he added.