New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday announced the launch of a scheme which will encourage talented school students to work on innovative ideas.
The Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme- ‘DHRUV’ will be launched from ISRO campus in Bengaluru on Thursday by the Minister of Human Resource and Development Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
Under this initiative, 60 talented students from Science and Arts will be selected for mentoring by the experts.
Salient features of the DHRUV programme:
- The programme will be called DHRUV (after the pole star) and every student to be called ‘DHRUV TARA’.
It will cover two areas i.e. Science and Performing Arts. - There will be 60 students in all, 30 from each area.
- The students will be broadly from classes 9 to 12, from all schools including government and private.
- The programme will be expanded gradually to other fields like creative writing etc.
- Centre of excellence will be set up across the country and mentoring and nurturing the students.
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