By: Shree1news, 17 NOV 2020
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has launched AICTE’s Lilavati Awards 2020 virtually today, November 17. The theme of the award was Women Empowerment and this award intends to recognize the efforts being made by AICTE approved institutions to treat women with ‘equality and fairness’ in all spheres of their lives.
AICTE Chairman Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe and Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare had been additionally present on the online launch event today.
The objective of the award is to create consciousness about issues like sanitation, hygiene, health, nutrition using traditional Indian values and in addition to create consciousness about issues like literacy, employment, technology, credit, marketing, innovation, talent improvement, natural resources, and rights amongst women.
As per the official statement launched by the Council, the award has been divided into various categories and entries for the award are invited under the class Institutional/ Team Level which includes of scholars/ faculty/ both from AICTE accredited technical institution / Deemed to be University who had undertaken remarkable intervention within the numerous sub-themes and made an influence within the society. The team has to showcase their work undertaken within the last two years from the date of announcement of the award for the cause of women empowerment.
Teams can apply for AICTE’s Lilavati Awards 2020 till December 31, 2020, on the official link lilavati.aicteindia.org. The eligible entries received from different institutions can be evaluated by a committee and the winning team will get certificates for first, second & third rank under every sub-theme.
Source: A-N