IIT-Delhi on Wednesday launched ‘Grassroots Innovation Programme (GRIP)’ below which the scholars will work on discovering novel options to grassroots societal issues recognized by them from rural and semi-urban areas, together with the communities they arrive from. The initiative was launched by the principal scientific advisor (PSA) to the Government of India, Prof Ok Vijay Raghavan.
Lauding the initiative launched by IIT Delhi, Prof Raghavan expressed hope that GRIP will consequence within the growth of a number of progressive options for society.
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As part of this new initiative, the next two actions are proposed:
a) Social immersion: A gaggle of scholars will go to communities positioned in smaller cities and villages to immerse in social environments for a considerable time (one week to months) to check, perceive and establish native wants and challenges, which might presumably be addressed by the scholars after they return to the Institute campus.
b) Grassroots innovation programme: As part of this, college students and pupil groups will likely be allowed to work on semester-long or year-long tasks on discovering novel options to grassroots issues recognized by them.
The GRIP initiative will present bodily, mental, and monetary assets to the scholars to hold out these tasks. To implement the above programmes, present programs and schemes of IIT-Delhi will likely be leveraged. This approach college students may have a possibility to earn tutorial credit for his or her efforts.
The programme can synergize with different programmes of the Institute, which embrace UBA, RUTAG, NSS, ENACTUS, and so forth.
“The GRIP initiative is aimed at providing resources to the students who want to help society by solving its problems,” mentioned Prof V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi.
IIT Delhi and Honey Bee Network (HBN), a volunteer-based community have joined fingers to groom college students as torchbearers of social and grassroots innovation by the GRIP programme.