UTKRISHT SANSTHAN VISHWAKARMA AWARD (USVA Award) 2020
Theme of the year : “INDIA FIGHTS CORONA”
by
Nelson
Mandle Marg, Vasant Kunj, NewDelhi -110070
AICTE:
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is a statutory body
established by an Act of Parliament with a view to proper planning
and co-ordinated development of the Technical Education system
throughout the country, the promotion of qualitative improvement of
such education in relation to planned quantitative growth and the
regulation and proper maintenance of norms and standards in the
technical education system and for matters connected therewith.
USVA
AWARD: The AICTE Vishwakarma Awards is being organised by AICTE
for promoting innovative spirit and scientific temperament for
holistic development of society through the stake holders of its
approved institutes. By means of this competition, the innovations,
achievements and social contribution of individuals and institutions/
organizations shall be recognized and applauded. The Vishwakarma
Awards are inspired by the spirit of engineering and creation
patronized by Lord Vishwakarma, the ruling deity of construction
practices in India. As per Rigveda, Lord Vishwakarma is considered to
be deity who is the original creator, architect and divine engineer
of the universe. The Awards are thus a means to provide a platform
for our stake holders to look at the societal challenges, with an aim
to provide an innovative and low cost solutions. However, it is not
merely a competition it will also encourage the students, faculties
and institutions to bring about sustainable solution to problems.
These awards are an embodiment of encouraging truly successful
efforts that have made a mark on the society in terms of delivering
better outputs & processes and creating higher benchmarks. Under
this, one of the category is Utkrisht Sansthan Vishwakarma Award,
which aims to motivate, recognize and honour the AICTE approved
institutions to raise their performance in the specific domain
leading to significant contribution for the growth and development of
the society. The objective is to foster an ecosystem where
institutional support is made available/ rendered on voluntary basis
in form of interventions over a sustained period of time leading to
measureable outcome. This year, India is facing an extraordinary
challenge to protect citizens from the rapidly spreading COVID-19
pandemic all around the globe. The government in pursuit of garnering
maximum efforts against this pandemic, which demands the contribution
of youth to act against the spread of COVID-19 across India.
The
Problem Statement: As we face our biggest challenge to contain
the spread of COVID -19 in India and the technical education
community in the country being well capable of serving the community
by utilizing its vast knowledge and ample resources. Hence, AICTE
under its Utkrisht Sansthan Vishwakarma Award (USVA) 2020 is
proposing the theme of the year as “INDIA FIGHTS CORONA”.
Institutions who have initiated all kinds of steps to ensure that the
spread of virus is slowed down or stopped and have helped their
society or Authorities by providing their helping hand during the
lockdown period through the conduct of awareness programmes, free
Counselling, tele-support, manufacturing/providing hand sanitizers,
masks, shelter/ food/ materials for the needy, developing e-material
for managing online classes, educating school students, involving in
development of essential solutions, etc. in their bid to Government
efforts in fighting COVID-19, shall send their nominations.
Eligibility
Requirement
1.All
AICTE approved institutions/ Universities are eligible to apply.
2.Major
achievements/ activities/ initiatives of the Institute/ University
towards contribution against fighting of COVID-19 will only be
considered.
Evaluation
Criteria: The award will be evaluated on the basis of the
following major considerations:-
1.
Awareness program Conducted for nearby locality to make people aware
of COVID-19 and its consequences.
2.Counselling
/ Tele Support Provided to their students, stakeholders and also for
the people of nearby locality.
3.Material/
Product manufactured/ Developed (e.g. Mask, sanitizer, ventilator,
etc.) by the institute to fight against COVID-19.
4.Materials/
Product distributed by the institution (e.g. Mask, sanitizer, soaps,
food, clothes, medicine, study material, etc.) to the nearby locality
or to the needy people.
5.Maintenance
of Public Assets -Renovation and restoration of infrastructure,
equipment and facilities in government hospitals/ public health
centres and other institution of public utilities.
6.How
innovatively you have conducted classes for students of your
institution during the lockdown period.
7.Steps
taken, to provide online Teaching Learning Programme to nearby
College/ School Students.
8.Institutional
Infrastructure/facility provided to authorities to combat COVID-19in
terms of shelter homes, isolation wards, healthcare facilities, etc.
9.Details
of other support provided (visits to create awareness, services
rendered, assistance extended to migrants, etc.)
10.Financial
Contribution provided by your institution/ faculty members/ students
towards the relief fund (Central / State).
11.Helped
authorities in implementing their projects/ schemes/ initiatives
against spread and prevention of COVID-19.
12.Any
other significant contribution in the relevant domain having
measurable outcome/ impact created in the society.
13.Post
COVID-19 redevelopment/ rehabilitation plan.
Important
Instructions for submitting the nominations under USVA’ 2020:
1.Portal
for inviting applications will be available on AICTE website from
17th April 2020.
2.
Institute can submit online application at
https://www.aicte-india.org
latest by 30th
May, 2020.
3.
Every institution shall be allowed to send only 1 (One) nomination.
Once submitted, no changes in the application/ data/ options shall be
entertained.
4.Institution/
university shall be required to render details of the contribution or
steps taken towards the prevention of spread of COVID-19.
5.Each
applicant need to follow the word limit as mentioned in each column
of application, else your application will not be considered.
6.A
self-Declaration form shall be submitted by the Head of the
Institution stating that the information given by the institution in
their application is true and factual.
Selection
Criteria for USVA2020:
1.The
Council shall shortlist the applications based on certain criteria(to
be decided by the committee as nominated by Council).
2.The
State wise activities shall be coordinated by the concerned AICTE
Regional Officer either through themselves or through the nominated
State Co-ordinator.
3.The
Council shall nominate an expert committee to visit the shortlisted
institute to verify the claims of the institute. The institute shall
produce all suitable documentation to showcase the work done and
impact created.
4.The
reports and outcome of the visits shall be evaluated by the jury of
experts and the results will be charted based on the merits of the
case.
5.AICTE
shall decide to confer/ restrict/ enhance the awards/ category as per
the decision of the competent authority. Hence there shall be no
claims to the contrary.
Jury:
A Jury for the different stages shall be constituted by the Council
from time to time. The members in the jury shall consist of eminent
educationists, researchers, social workers, representatives of
planning bodies, policy formulators and such other persons of repute/
recognition.
Recognition:
The Council will recognize and honour the winners of the awards of
various categories in an event likely to be held at AICTE HQs., New
Delhi.
Source:
https://www.aicte-india.org/
(15.04.2020)
