Viksit Bharat Young Leaders' Dialogue 2027: UGC calls on HEIs to encourage student participation

The Department of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is organising the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders' Dialogue 2027, a flagship youth engagement programme under the National Youth Festival. The event will take place from January 10 to January 12, 2027, at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

As a part of this nationwide event, the Innovate for Bharat 2027 challenge track has been conceptualized to encourage young people to come up with innovative, scalable and impact-oriented solutions to real world challenges. Participation in these challenges is absolutely free of cost and cash prizes are envisaged for the winners.

The University Grants Commission has requested all higher education institutions to publicize the scheme widely and motivate eligible students and youth to participate. Institutions are encouraged to promote the official publicity poster on their websites, social media, student communication channels and other appropriate platforms.

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Categories of Viksit Bharat Young Leaders' Dialogue 2027

The initiative has three separate challenge tracks for different age groups and professional backgrounds. The selected participants will get a chance to display their ideas or products at the national event to be held in New Delhi, while some of the participants will get a chance to present directly before the prime minister.

Design for Bharat is a design innovation challenge designed specifically for college and university students aged 18 to 29 years. Hack for Social Cause functions as a national hackathon targeted at college and university students aged 18 to 29 years. Youth Entrepreneurs Challenge acts as a start-up challenge for youth aged 18 to 35 years, which includes start-up founders and working professionals.

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Registration details

Higher education institutions are anticipated to integrate the initiative into their campus engagement frameworks to achieve maximum academic awareness and participation. University leaders and faculty advisors should actively mentor students through the screening, evaluation and national submission stages.  

All detailed information on the exact domain-specific challenge statements and registration protocol is available on the MY Bharat portal. The platform provides a way for academic administrators to handle institutional submissions directly.