AICTE second Lilavati awards top prize won by eight colleges

NEW DELHI: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) second Lilavati Awards, aimed at celebrating women’s empowerment, was won by eight colleges namely JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneshwar, Thiagarajar Polytechnic College, Salem, KCG College of Technology, Chennai, KS Rangasamy College of Technology Tiruchengode, Kongunadu College of Engineering and Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, and Sona College of Technology (Salem).

The AICTE Lilavati awards , named after the Indian mathematician Lilavati, are given for excelling at eight areas of work such as women and adolescent health, self-defence, environment, sanitation and hygiene, literacy and life skills, women entrepreneurship, legal awareness, technology for women, and women innovators (rural-urban).

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About 27 teams consisting of faculty and non-faculty members and students from various colleges were awarded the 2022 edition of the Lilavati award out of the 500 teams that participated.

The event was addressed by Smriti Zubin Irani, Union minister for women and child development. “I am particularly delighted to see that AICTE seeks to award women not only in the field of maths and science but also to those who have legally empowered women, those who have contributed to social causes apart from academics. I am desirous of the fact that I would meet these exemplary women soon but celebrate today the potential of the AICTE to strengthen academic prospects for women. You are Atal in your endeavour as over 19,000 faculty members find support in AICTE in emerging sectors like AI and Machine Learning”, she said.

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