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Students bag social entrepreneurship award
October 27 , 2017
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- Three students, Gobinath P., Shreeram R. and Santosh G. V. from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras won the first prize at the National Social Enterprise Idea Challenge competition organised by the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru for designing a temporary shelter that could be used to rehabilitate disaster-affected victims.
- The modular house built is inexpensive, portable and quick to set up. It also addresses issues of safety, privacy and insulation, which conventional methods could not offer.
- The second place went to Ranjith Kumar and Akhil Krishna of Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, for developing reinforced acoustic tiles using agro waste and straw.
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