Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) has notified all students and interested parties that the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam IGNITE 18 Competition under the initiative of the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, is underway and entries are being accepted till August 13.
The notification through DIPR stated that the NBSE had decided to partner with NIF so that students of the state could also participate in the competition, further details of which can be obtained from the web-page http://nif.org.in/announcement/ignite-competition. IGNITE Awards winners are also eligible to get 10 bonus marks while applying for admission in B.Tech program at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD), an autonomous institute of the Government of Delhi. These bonus marks are in addition to the 100 marks an applicant gets based on the JEE (Mains) and Class XII marks.
NBSE has requested schools and institutions to inform the students to participate in this competition with their creative ideas or innovations. “Let us all make efforts to identify the young and best minds so that with their ideas and innovations, the society gets the benefits” it added.