MALKANGIRI: Poverty and hardship have failed to discourage Akash Chand, a pupil of Class XII of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya-I right here, who has provide you with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based mostly mannequin to assist farmers. Akash made it to the highest 100 checklist of phase-II of Responsible Intelligence Youth Programme, organised by Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of HRD.
Akash Chand being felicitatedby principal TVS Prakash Rao | ExpressHis venture, titled, ‘Production Management’ appears to be like to serving to farmers by offering them knowledge by way of AI and recommend excessive yielding crops. Farmers will be capable to get data on climate, amount of water and pesticide required for a selected crop. “Moved by the plight of farmers endure crop loss, I developed the project to help them,” the teenager mentioned, including he was guided by he principal of his college, TVS Prakash Rao and trainer B Sarvani.
Akash misplaced his father, Gopinath in 2018 and his mom works as a every day wage employee on the college the place he research. Having seen poverty and struggles of life from shut quarters, his willpower to make a distinction within the lives of farmers was observed by his academics. “It is a proud moment for Malkangiri and Odisha. In Phase-II of the programme, the selected students will be trained and their ideas converted into working prototypes,” his principal mentioned.
He is amongst eight college students from Odisha whose tasks have made it to the checklist of the programme, which goals at offering equal alternatives to youths, from city and rural areas of the nation, to develop into human-centric designers who can create actual AI options to resolve financial and social points.
