Author: ReTHINK INDIA

ABV Awards for Innovation 2017

Recipients of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Awards for Innovation 2017 presented on National Technology Day, May 11th, 2017

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Advertising Standards Council of India

For being the Most Innovative Regulatory Body

From App to Social Media; from establishing an every evolving and self-ordained framework of codes to their due enforcement, ASCI advances its cause with the unique ingenious approach of self-transformation

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Air India

for inducing innovative resistance driving home the much required point of sanity and sobriety in availing public services

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Annamrit Foundation

for its innovative practice of Farmers as Owners Communes Integrating farmers with the forward market linkages and making them shareholders in the overall value chain

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Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur

For the attempt to Design and Assemble a Modified 3D printer to be used for manufacture of single piece prototypes of complex nature which are not possible with normal manufacturing practices

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Bharat Niti

for being an ingenious engagement platform Advancing a Political Narrative in a 360 Degree Manner

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FACTLY

for creating a series of innovative short videos explaining a vast range of issues concerning public at large

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Great Game India

for its innovative approach in introducing the nuanced and multilayered narrative of International Affairs in a simple layman structure

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Indian Army

for the innovative intervention of its Commander who chose to tie up a protester as a human shield to reach to the troubled polling station and rescue the strangled personnel without retorting to any collateral damage to the already disturbed environment. The innovation of the concerned Army Commander does lie in addressing this new-age information warfare whereby the Sovereign Security Forces have been put to a tactical disadvantage in due discharge of their duty to protect the territorial integrity of their homeland.

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ITM Vocational University, Vadodara

for its Project Based Active Learning Pedagogy

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JSS College of Pharmacy, Ootacamund

for its Patented Hapenz & NSF-3 Herbal Drugs

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Kotak Mahindra Bank

for its initiative 811 which has immortalized the tectonic shift orchestrated

to catapult India to a futuristic age of banking and financial transactions

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NALCO

for its Nano-Technology Based De-Fluordidation Plant for Treatment of effluent water of smelter plant

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RS Narayan aka Ravinar

for his initiative MediaCrooks.com

which is an innovative pedagogy leveraging the social media platform for accentuating citizen resistance in national affairs

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Rama University, Kanpur

for its innovative initiative students.guru

which is an e-enablement platform for schools in the nearby vicinity of the university

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Ritu Rathaur

for innovating the use-case of Twitter Trends for Championing various public causes

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Shreeramachandrapur Math

for its Mangal Gou Yatra Initiative

A Unique Mix of solution centric advocacy cum action plan for the protection and augmentation of bovine breed which has had a symbiotic relationship with the Indian agrarian ecosystem. The elaborate effort to cover each and every district of Karnataka to generate objective awareness about cattle centered agrarian lifestyle calls for adulation

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Tajinder Bagga

for his initiative Modifying India which is an ingenious methodology in Political Activism

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Thots Lab

for its innovative amalgamation of the esoteric principles of the east with the modern researches of the west to induce the process of higher order thinking during the formative years

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Uttar Pradesh Police

for its initiative UP100

An overall framework for pro-actively engaging with the citizens at large and redressing their grievances at once

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eduJAPAN Updates


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eduNEWS

The Future of Learning is all about the capability to appreciate the contemporary narrative which is interdisciplinary, global and rapidly evolving.

This capability can be nurtured best by putting the student to a larger gamut of news handpicked for essentially for the purpose of education and correlating it with the entire set of curriculum.

In this age of implosion of information, though the access has become expedient but the process of learning through this method has become all the more daunting.

ReTHINK INDIA has thereby put itself to this task of curating eduNEWS from various credible national and international sources across a various range of subjects.

The essential feature of this eduNEWS would be that it shall be expressed in chunks of 280 characters through the official twitter handle @eduNEWS108 carrying the essential facts and figures at once without requiring a long reading. 18 such eduNEWS items shall be curated every day with a weekly average of 108. All these 108 eduNEWS items shall be put to a weekly test on Sundays which can be taken up by the participating students on their mobiles in around 108 minutes.

While the eduNEWS bytes would be uniform for the students across class 6-12, each of these tests would be tailored to the level of the students.

Monthly rankings of the participating students shall be released as a part of this exercise which shall be reported school wise, city wise, region wise, zone wise and nation wide.

This shall keep the interest of the participating students at large. Every passing week the test would add upon the understanding and analysis of the previous weeks so that the continuity of awareness remains.

Top performing Students who would have emerged out of this exercise shall be felicitated on a periodic basis at New Delhi. The Digital Certificate of Participation shall be given away to all.

If your School is keen to be a part of this eduNEWS Initiative, you may appoint an eduNEWS – Faculty Coordinator to this effect who in turn can motivate the interested students to enroll themselves to eduNEWS.

A nominal participation fee of Rs 1008 has been kept for this entire exercise. In case you have any query or clarification you may please contact Dr. Surbhi at 9910050939.

Categories: Futuristic Learning

New India Champions 2018

5THIR SUMMIT HOME

To be given away during the 5THIRTA Summit 2018, Commemorating the 149th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on October 1st at New Delhi during 5THIR SUMMIT

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“India of the ages is not dead, nor has she spoken the last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples”

These stirring words of Sri Aurobindo still reverberate in the hearts and minds of a large number of individuals and institutions which are working relentlessly to create a New India

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

Inspired by the aforesaid words of Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore,
ReTHINK INDIA is thereby in the look out of New India Champions 2018 who have

Bolstered Hope for the Future of Indian People;
Induced Innovation in the Geo-Cultural Context of India
Designed Disruptive Transformation of Regressive Status Quo
Created Competitive Advantage for Sovereign Indian National Interests
Galvanized for Global Leadership & Service of Humanity at Large

If you are an institution which has exhibited substantial facets in the aforesaid areas, you are most welcome to nominate yourself as a New India Champion 2018.

Download the PDF Version of the Nomination Form

NOMINATE HERE

Contact
Dr. Surbhi Vaish Mittal
M: 9910050939 | W : 9910050597 | L: 0120-4926060

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RISAT 2020

Future Proof the Aspirational Students of Class 12th at Your School

RISAT 2020

REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL HERE

By Nominating Only Upto 20 Aspirational Students of Class 12th

Extend them an Opportunity to Secure a Privileged Seat in One of the Prestigious Futuristic Technical Institutions of the Country Offering Futuristic UG Programmes

A Futuristic UG Programme essentially would comprise of 

– Interdisciplinary Learning & Research

– Human Centric Design Focus towards Products, Systems, Services, Built Environment

– Foundational Digital Competencies

– Linkages to Large-Scale Real World Issues & Problems

– Capability to Absorb VUCA and march towards 5THIRA (Stability)

besides other features…which shall be put to a rigorous testing by RISAT 2020 Secretariat.

The fate of the future of Techno-Managerial Education in India shall be determined by the trinity of
Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

While institutions of higher education are gearing up to meet up these futuristic requirements, we at ReTHINK INDIA thought of filtering the duly oriented students by way of conducting ReTHINK INDIA STEAM ASSESSMENT TEST (RISAT) at an all India level whereby the Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurial Quotients of the wannabe technocrats shall be ascertained and an elaborate scorecard shall be generated out of the same which shall be an additional yardstick to extend admission offers to them apart from their
standardized PCMB transcripts and scores.

The testing contexts for the RISAT would be sourced from coveted industrial & applied research organisations like CSIR, DRDO, ISRO, DAE, DBT, PSUs along with some of the leading lights of techno-managerial education globally.

It has been found that a large number of students who perform just average on count of PCMB have an innate research, innovation and entrepreneurial faculty which gets sidelined due to absence of platforms which can test and gauge them well in time.

Apart from them, a large number of meritorious and deserving outliers tend to look for differentiated programmes whereby their Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurial Quotients can be honed further.

What better than filtering them out by this elaborate process of RISAT.

RISAT would put the fundamental knowledge of PCMB to test in applied contexts and would thereby try to evoke and gauge the research, innovation and entrepreneurial faculties of the students at large.

REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL HERE

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In case you have any query or clarification to this effect, please feel free to Contact
Dr. Surbhi Vaish (Mob: 9910050597)

What RISAT IS NOT !!!

RISAT 2020 is not an elimination test like JEE Mains or JEE Advanced. It’s not a replacement of the conventional PCMB Testing as well. RISAT 2020 is merely an add-on metric for the more discerned students as well as Institutions which have chalked out Futuristic Undergraduate Programmes.

What RISAT IS?

RISAT 2020 is a unique assessment to ascertain the awareness, appreciation and application of the various precepts of Science, Arts & Mathematics in the Context of Engineering & Technological Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship.  

The test is beyond the conventional confines of mere PCMB Testing and draws the Futuristic Frontiers from World Economic Forum, TEDand other leading futuristic think tanks from across… 

It’s a positive and graded assessment test of the contextual learning, understanding and application of the precepts of science, arts and mathematics.

The questions are based on real world scenarios specifically with a focus on the future.   

Where & How to take the Test

The Applicants would be allowed to take the various components of RISAT 2020 from within the comforts of their personal study with no upper time constraint. However, the overall time consumed would be a parameter of evaluation.   

The applicants need to simply have a personal computer with a microphone, webcam and an internet connection.  

The Open Book nature of RISAT 2020 would enable the applicants to refer to their books; internet or even their parents, peers or teachers. However, as a fair use practice, each of this support would need to be documented and declared in the corresponding section of RISAT.   

Pre-Admission Offers

The RISAT 2020 Secretariat would report the RISAT 2020 Scores along with other baseline academic metrics of the applicants to the leading Futuristic Technical Institutions of the country and would thereby try to garner pre-admission offers from 3-5 of them for each applicant in their various programmes.

However, this would not be a guarantee but considering the nature of RISAT 2020, there is a fairly high chance of the same. 

Timelines

The Test Lines shall be open from National Technology Day, 11th of May 2020 to Engineers’ Day, 15th of September 2020 to be able to give a fair spread out chance for all the Aspirational Students.

RISAT 2020 APPLICATION PROCESS

The applications to RISAT 2020 have to be routed through the Participating Schools who in turn would be encouraged to recommend only upto 20 Aspirational Students from the middle bell curve of their class with a Faculty Recommendation in about 200-400 words in the prescribed format.  

RISAT 2020 Coordinator

Each of the Participating Schools would have to appoint a Senior Faculty Member as the RISAT 2020 Coordinator as the Single Point of Contact for all administrative purposes.  

RISAT 2020 STEPS

Step 1 :: Interested Schools Register for RISAT 2020 by appointing a RISAT 2020 Coordinator and filling up the Registration Form below.  

Step 2 :: Registered Schools curate a list of upto 20 Class 12th Students for RISAT 2020 and get the Faculty Recommendations for each one of them prepared 

Step 3 :: Registered Schools fill up the Advanced Registration Form by submitting the Details of Recommended Students along with the stipulated Fee.  

Step 4 :: Participating Students enrol themselves for RISAT 2020 and engage themselves for the multi-stage assessment. They shall be provided with the RISAT Curriculum and Content for Preparation from within a LMS.  

Step 5 :: RISAT 2020 Secretariat Reports the RISAT 2020 Scores to Participating Futuristic Higher Technical Institutions and garner pre-admission offers and reports them back to the participating students. 

REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL HERE

In case you have any query or clarification to this effect, please feel free to Contact
Dr. Surbhi Vaish (Mob: 9910050597)

Categories: Assessments

5THIR SUMMIT 2018

Concept Paper on Fifth Industrial Revolution
Released on 11th of December 2017 during The Fifth Estate Summit presided over by The Education President of India Sri Pranab Mukherjee

Knowledge Partner

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October 1st, 2018
India International Centre, New Delhi

Commemorating the 149th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi who paved the path for lasting 5THIRTA (Stability) in Indian National Life

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PROGRAMME AGENDA

1:50 pm Onwards

Registration

INTRODUCTION TO 5THIRTA THEMES

The Central Quest
ACCOMPLISHING 5THIRTA (STABILITY)
through Re-Invigorating India’s Intellectual Knowledge Traditions
Can India offer its Civilizational Wisdom & Intellectual Traditions
to steer through the contemporary material advances to lead the world towards a stable epoch of lasting peace & prosperity?
Can the characteristic Indian thought on the philosophical foundations of
Human Existence, Social Order, Education, Economy, Polity, Governance, Administration, Management, Environment, Development come to an aide?
Can the Indian techno-managerial paradigms concerning
Food, Healthcare, Water, Waste, Sanitation, Housing, Defence, Security, Energy, Space, Transport etc.
present an additional leeway to the ongoing discourse?

2:00 – 2:15

STRIKING STAKEHOLDER STABILITY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GIVING WAY TO THE 5TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The quintessential quest of the proposed 5th Industrial Revolution is to ensure the accomplishment of lasting 5THIRTA (stability).
This 5THIRTA (stability) can only arise when the entire milieu of stakeholders are made an integral part of the developmental projects.
The convergence of government agencies, businesses, civil society organizations and academic institutions to
plan, design and administer these projects can go a long way in ensuring lasting 5THIRTA.
The decentralization of the developmental narrative can ensure its sustainability across parameters.
How can this stakeholder stability for sustainable development be accentuated?

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2:15 – 2:30

TRAVERSING TOURISM AS A TORCHBEARER OF 5THIRTA
Cultural Differences accruing from Civilizational Foundations has been one of the biggest causes which has evaded 5THIRTA (stability).
Tourism facilitates a cross-cultural conversation in the spirit of camaraderie and thereby constitutes a key constituent of the 5th Industrial Revolution
by converging the local conventions with that of the Global Aspirations.
Extending respect to the indigenous communities and bolstering their eclectic ways of life can at best be accentuated by the instrument of Tourism.
In what all ways and with which all means shall the tourism establishments orchestrate this?

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2:30 – 3:00

EXPLORING THE ENTERPRISE MIX FOR ACCENTUATING 5TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Economic Disparity has been one of the key reasons of social conflict.
With the advent of transformational power of technology this disparity can be disrupted provided there is a deterministic view about the plausible enterprise mix.
How shall the sovereign nation states devise a wise mix of Big Enterprises with that of Medium, Small & Micro Ones?
Shall it be a new economic mix of free markets & state control based on the inordinate amount of Big Data available for analysis?

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3:00 – 3:15

ENUMERATING AN ALL ENCOMPASSING EDUCATION CONNECT FOR BOLSTERING THE 5TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The 5THIRTA (stability) of any Economic Growth is largely dependent on the aspirations, competence & value systems of the Human Resources driving the same.
India’s vast demographic pool of youngsters present a unique opportunity whereby a multi-layered giant economic base can be curated.
This can happen only when the entire educational ecosystem works in tandem and creates a nation wide symphony.
R&D Institutions championing the futuristic frontiers of growth & innovation instigating & inspiring the entire deck of Higher Education Institutions
which in turn taking the onus of hand holding the K-12 Schools in their zone of influence can orchestrate the aforesaid eduCONNECT.
How can such synergies be institutionalized making way for socially relevant enterprises powered by innovation & research?

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3:15 – 3:30

BALANCING THE TRIAD OF TECHNOLOGY-FINANCE-REGULATION FOR LASTING 5THIRTA
The disruptive power of technology has presented mind-boggling use cases for the betterment of humanity at large.
However, that shall depend entirely as to how technological adoption/deployment is financed and regulated?
Shall it follow a Centralized Command & Control Regime or Shall it pursue the contours of a more decentralized & democratized framework?
What factors shall determine this?

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3:30 – 3:45

PROPOSING A SEAMLESS ECOSYSTEM OF
PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE & INTEGRATED HEALING FOR 5THIRTA
Being Healthy has been one of the cornerstones of Indian thought whereby remaining healthy has had been celebrated as a virtue.
Can modern healthcare systems be designed with this philosophical precept in consideration whereby the
emphasis is on keeping health people healthy instead of devising it from a more consumption driven perspective?

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3:45 – 4:15

The Quintessential Gandhi for a New India

22nd September 1931: An admiring East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), in Canning Town, East London, as he calls upon Charlie Chaplin. Gandhi is in England in his capacity as leader of the Indian National Congress attending the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

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4:15 pm – 5:00 pm

Felicitations

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RSVP
Dr. Surbhi Vaish Mittal
M: 9910050939 | W: 9910050597 | L: 0120-4926060

Categories: 5THIR

Scintillating Students

The Students of Future would have to be brilliantly and excitingly clever & skillful in order to make their personal mark as well as to stand up for the nation at large.

In its drive to evoke an all around excellence in the domain of education with the already flourishing communities of

Progressive Prinicipals
Futuristic Faculty
Pro-Active Parents

ReTHINK INDIA has come up with an equally powerful community of

Scintillating Students

whereby the participants would be subjected to variegated encounters with towering personalities periodically and shall be assessed therein to create the respective Scintillation Indices.

The Outliers shall be felicitated & certified for their appreciation regularly.

Open Contests

The Quintessential Gandhian Values

22nd September 1931: An admiring East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), in Canning Town, East London, as he calls upon Charlie Chaplin. Gandhi is in England in his capacity as leader of the Indian National Congress attending the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

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Chaudhary Charan Singh
An Agrarian Intellectual for Our Times

Born 23rd December 1902 – Died 29th May 1987
5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 – 14 January 1980
5th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 3 April 1967 – 25 February 1968

Meri Ekyaavan Kavitaayen (My 51 Poems)
Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee


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Pro-Active Parents

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Parents constitute the critical core of The Learning Compact
whereby School, Teachers & Social Ecosystem simply act as a supporting externality.

However, this aspect has been largely subdued owing to various reasons.

Nonetheless, Research shows that Children who do have Pro-Active Parents back home who take a pro-active interest in their grooming have a much balanced persona on all counts.

ReTHINK INDIA has thereby chosen to bolster the institution of Pro-Active Parenting across the country.

Recommendations are being sought from Schools to recommend 3-10 Parents who in their view happen to be Pro-Active Ones.

The Recommended Ones would have to fill an elaborate questionnaire to establish their Pro-Activeness in Parenting around

the 5Ps of

PREDICTION
In order to be a proactive parent, you must first develop foresight about your children taking cue from what they are.

PREVENTION
Proactive parents foresee potential obstacles and exert their power to find ways to overcome them before those obstacles turn into concrete roadblocks
which requires a constant interaction with their children, their preferences & priorities and influences

PLANNING
Proactive parents plan for the future of their children from their multi-dimensional grooming, professional education leading to fruitful careers.
This also includes the dovetailing of personal careers with the needs and requirements of that of their children.

PARTICIPATION
Proactive parents are not idle observers, they are active participants in each and every activity pertaining to their wards.
For Pro-Active Parents, Children come first and the foremost above everything.

PERFORMANCE
Being a proactive parent means taking timely, effective action when the time demands as children are supposed to be the biggest investment and assets

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