India, Oct. 13 -- Over 1 crore school students of Classes 6 to 12 attended a two-hour long live tinkering innovation session as part of the Viksit Bharat Buildathon (VBB) 2025 inaugurated by Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi, officials said on Monday.

Students from over 3 lakh schools across the country worked in teams of 3 to 5 to ideate, design innovative solutions and build their prototypes around four themes - vocal for local, 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' (self-reliant India), 'swadeshi' (indigenous), and 'samriddh Bharat' (prosperous India) in India's largest synchronised innovation hackathon for school students, the education ministry said in a statement.

According to the ministry, the highest participation came fro...