India, Sept. 23 -- Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday unveiled 'Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025', a nationwide innovation drive aimed at engaging 5 crore students from classes 6 to 12 across more than 3 lakh schools.

The joint initiative of Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL) under the Education Ministry and NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is aimed at encouraging students to ideate, design, and build prototypes of the products around four themes - vocal for local, atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), swadeshi (Indigenous), and samriddh Bharat (prosperous India) in alignment with the vision of Viksit Bharat (Developed India) at 2047.

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