By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Patna: One of Rahmani 30 students, who is currently in IIT Kharagpur is short listed for regional final for renowned Hult Prize sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative. The Hult Prize Foundation recently announced that Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur has advanced to the regional finals of the Fifth annual Hult Prize.
The Hult Prize is the world’s largest student competition and start-up platform for social good. In partnership with President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative, the innovative crowdsourcing platform identifies and launches disruptive and catalytic social ventures that aim to solve the planet’s most pressing challenges. Student teams compete in six cities around the world for a chance to secure US$ 1 million in start-up funding to launch a sustainable social venture.
Team leader Imbesat Ahamd is an alumnus of Rahmani 30. Other team members include Saif Khan, Abhisek Datta, Khalid Abdullah Qidwai and Ahmed Aslam.
There are 3 teams from India, from BITS-Pilani and IMT.
This year's theme is "control of non-communicable diseases in urban slum". Imbesat’s project is a basic research work over slum areas of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai. These are India's five largest slum. Their project will have two prime targets. The first one is to organise yearlong awareness campaign related to health issues in all such areas, so that the people could be aware of better health practices, government schemes, symptoms of chronic diseases which could be detected in early stages. For which we are planning to design a movable clinic.
Their second target is to work on any one chronic disease either cancer or heart problem. "We are looking for some cheap and new technology which could be relevant to at least cure people whose disease have been detected in early stage," Imbesat told TCN, hoping that they succeed in their endeavor.
Imbesat and his team are busy developing their project. They have two months’ time to design their project.
Although the young team is focusing on their project, they have another worry – finance to go to Dubai in March for the function.
(TCN appeals to its readers to help these young talents raise funds to sponsor their trip to Dubai in March.)