Garhwal Post Bureau
Dehradun, 3 Sept: The Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (UCOST) is organising, for the very first time, a state-level “Science and Technology Premier League” with the target of encouraging and selling the scientific expertise of scholars throughout the state. This distinctive competitors might be held from 28 to 30 November 2025, alongside the proposed twentieth State Science and Technology Congress.
The Premier League might be performed in a number of levels, ranging from the block degree and progressing to the district and lastly the state degree. Students chosen on the block degree will advance to the district degree, and in the end, members from all 13 districts of the state will compete within the state-level occasion.
UCOST Director General, Prof Durgesh Pant acknowledged that by this first-ever Science and Technology Premier League in Uttarakhand, college students won’t solely be assessed on their information but additionally on innovation, problem-solving, teamwork, and management abilities. The competitors will emphasise scientific options in key areas similar to Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Renewable Energy, Space Science, Biotechnology, Climate Change, and native points like landslides, water conservation, and mountain agriculture. The goal is to encourage college students to handle native challenges with a world perspective.
Programme Coordinator, UCOST Scientist Dr Om Prakash Nautiyal added that, beneath the steering of UCOST Director General Prof Durgesh Pant and in keeping with the imaginative and prescient of the Chief Minister, this initiative will present equal alternatives not solely to college students from city areas but additionally to these from distant mountainous areas. This will assist deliver ahead hidden expertise from rural areas and give new course to the tradition of innovation and startups within the state.
At the conclusion of the programme, college students chosen on the state-level competitors might be felicitated. This initiative won’t solely nurture a scientific outlook amongst college students but additionally show to be an necessary step in the direction of establishing Uttarakhand as a recognised scientific state sooner or later.