Cleaning the Ganga and training unemployed youth were some of the initiatives taken up at Cognizance, the annual three-day technical festival of IIT\u00a0Roorkee.<\/p>\n
Growth Development Programme, Ganga rejuvenation project and eliminating darkness were the key themes of\u00a0Cognizance\u00a02018.<\/p>\n
“We also collaborated with\u00a0Pritham\u00a0Education\u00a0Foundation to help a number of unemployed youths to develop skills by offering three-month training to them,” M.K. Barua, Associate DOSW (Students Activities)\u00a0Indian Institute of Technology\u00a0(IIT) Roorkee, told IANS on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Besides these, many other initiatives were adopted with 75 companies sponsoring the festival that began here on Friday.<\/p>\n
In collaboration with\u00a0Uttarakhand\u00a0Renewable Energy Development\u00a0Agency, under its social initiative programme “Let’s Eliminate Darkness”, the students also distributed LED bulbs in remote regions of\u00a0Kundi\u00a0and Lakhnauta in\u00a0Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n
“We distributed 46 LED bulbs in\u00a0Kundi\u00a0district and 72 in Lakhnauta village with the aim to eliminate darkness from these areas,” Barua said.<\/p>\n
“I think we have to use advancements in technology and the capabilities of international majors to deploy solutions which can brighten the lives of our countrymen.”<\/p>\n
He said\u00a0Cognizance\u00a0is an initiative to aware people from across the country to consider it as a sacred duty, give support and contribute their time and efforts toward this mission.<\/p>\n
IIT\u00a0Roorkee\u00a0Director\u00a0Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi\u00a0said\u00a0Cognizance\u00a0was a platform aimed at enhancing entrepreneurship skill among students.<\/p>\n
“Becoming a successful\u00a0entrepreneur\u00a0requires concentration, innovation and communication… all these essential skills students learn at the tech fest,” he said.<\/p>\n
(Umer Rashid is in\u00a0Roorkee\u00a0<\/a>at the invitation of\u00a0Cognizance\u00a0<\/a>organisers. He can be reached at umer.r@ians.in)<\/p>\n –IANS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cleaning the Ganga and training unemployed youth were some of the initiatives taken up at Cognizance, the annual three-day technical festival of IIT\u00a0Roorkee. Growth Development Programme, Ganga rejuvenation project and eliminating darkness were the key themes of\u00a0Cognizance\u00a02018. “We also collaborated with\u00a0Pritham\u00a0Education\u00a0Foundation to help a number of unemployed youths to develop skills by offering three-month training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}