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ditya Rajput was studying in Class
A10 of a school in Ahmedabad. One of eart attack is a major cause of
his mentors met with an accident with a Hhuman deaths worldwide. Most of
two-wheeler driver who had no licence. the deaths from heart attack happen
Aditya, along with his friends, Vimal because timely medical assistance
Maheshwari, Lekh Patel and Madhish is not available. Two students from
Parik, began working on an idea to find Best High School -- Vimal and Ronit
a way to prevent people from driving -- in Maninagar of Ahmedabad have
without a licence. They developed a developed a wearable watch-like band
smart lock. The prototype suggests using which can study the variation in the ECG
a working driving licence of the owner. and can alert for the heart attack 30
The system would also be connected to minutes in advance. This also releases
an application in the user’s phone and if two life-saving drugs besides alerting
an unauthorised licence is used to start it, nearby hospitals and relatives of the
the owner will be alerted. patients automatically.

oung minds are full of curiosity and have potential for innovations. However
until 2016, due to lack of platforms, stories of innovation by children were
Yhardly heard. Realising the potential of the young minds, the Government
launched the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) to provide not only a platform to the
curious minds, but also motivate other students to think out of the box. These
efforts have now started bearing fruits as India has climbed to the 48th position
in the Global Innovation Index 2020, bringing all-round encomiums for the AIM. In
2015, India was placed at the 81st position in the same Index.

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