see this report and we have to empower our own tribal communities to assert their rights Chilean Supreme Court Upholds Indigenous Water Use Rights In late November, Chile’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of granting a water flow to Chusmiza and Usmagama communities. The communities had been fighting against Agua Mineral Chusmiza,…
Several students from svnit and elsewhere responded to the ongoing discussion between me and Hiranmay. Bhavik, Praveen, Biswranjan, Vishesh, and Satyaprakash are among those who are also involve din building techpedia.in or techepdia.sristi.org , and have also suggested some ideas to make it more vibrant, meaningful and purposeful. Some of the ides put forward are:…
detailed comments will follow. In the meanwhile, i invite more and more students and faculty and industry entrepreurs to respond and send suggestions to make thsi platform a vibrant platform for linking real life problems with young creative minds of our country. Anil K Gupta
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Hiranmay Mahanta <mahanta.hiranmay@gmail.com> wrote: Respected sir Could i get some suggestion before i take the IDPs into hand from those Industries/MSMEs/others to be taken into Techpedia IDP section for making real time solution in stipulated time. So far as industry defined problems that i decided to use as protocols for time…
Grooming geniuses: shunning mediocrity A few years ago, we were walking as a part of shodh Yatra in Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir, when a young school student Farid asked us a question, which I think needs reflection by every educationist. He asked,” whey do I have to study and excel in all the subjects,…
ZAKARIA: But you know, outside visitors go to China, and they go to India. And they are struck by the energy with which the Chinese are both building infrastructure, the ease with which you can set up businesses. And they wish that they could see a similar process in India. SINGH: Well, I have no…
tried to convince many Vice Chancellors and other senior scientists to start having courses on entrepreneurship for students from various scientific streams. among variosu ideas discussed were: a) if value addition in agriculture sector continues to be so poor as it is, then how will we help our farmers get better prices and income b)…
At a snail’s pace: pathways to the ‘other’ side While dealing with children we have often observed how to make them do some thing, we have to ask them to do the opposite. The rebel in fact resides in all of us. Most of us tame it as we grow, some don’t. I saw an…
a) key linkages are: —student to student -we want to increase what i call as innovation quotient of the country, so that no student just duplicates what has been done already, every young person odes some thing new, -kho kho, that i san idea germinated in one eng college may be taken up to next stage at another college and in a few…
SPEECH BY HER EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, SHRIMATI PRATIBHA DEVISINGH PATIL, AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTH NATIONAL GRASSROOTS INNOVATION AWARDS New Delhi, 18th November, 2009 Speech Ladies and Gentlemen, I am really very glad to be here at this function where the work of grassroots innovators, young creative children and traditional knowledge holders…