Ishan Vikas

It was launched in 2014 with the aim to motivate school students from North eastern states to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics and to facilitate internship opportunities for the engineering college students in various institutes of national importance.

• Under the scheme, selected school children from north-east are brought in close contact with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) to achieve the above objective. Annual target is to provide visit of 96 school children to premier institutes and summer internships to 250 engineering students.
• Since inception of the programme in 2014-15, 1637 school children and 372 engineering students have benefited (2018).