The Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 saw 2,87,967 project submissions across India. The Ministry of Education said the initiative witnessed an unprecedented grassroots response. Expert panels selected 10 national, 100 state, and 1,000 district awardees. Winners got cash prizes from a pool of over Rs 1 crore to support their creative tech solutions.
Highlighting the Buildathon Initiative, he noted that students were encouraged to identify problems and develop solutions independently, without predefined problems or solutions.
‘Unprecedented response’
“Centred around four foundational pillars—Atmanirbhar Bharat, Swadeshi, Vocal for Local, and Samriddh Bharat—the initiative witnessed an unprecedented grassroots response, recording 2,87,967 project submissions across both Idea and Prototype tracks,” said the Ministry of Education in a statement.
It said that to evaluate the solutions, a rigorous, three-tier assessment framework was instituted at the district, state and national levels led by multidisciplinary expert panels. Following comprehensive evaluations, 10 national awardees, 100 state awardees and 1,000 district awardees were selected.
An award pool of over Rs 1 crore was instituted across district, state and national levels. The 10 national winning teams were awarded a total cash prize of Rs 17.50 lakh. Under the prototype track, each of the five top winning teams was awarded Rs 2.5 lakh, recognising their functional working models.
Each of the five winning teams under the idea track received Rs 1 lakh to encourage the incubation and scaling of their creative concepts, the ministry said.