Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

The Department of Science & Technology (DST) is implementing a national program Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) for attracting talented young students to study Science and pursue career in Research. This Program is being implemented since 2009-10.
INSPIRE aims to identify, sustain and strengthen human capacity for Research and Development base of the country. Inspired research achieved by means of an innovative scientific pursuit is the objective of this flagship scheme of the DST. INSPIRE Program covers students in the age group 10-32 years. It has five components spread over in three major schemes.

This is the theme of the competition being organised by dst of government of india.
I would like you to pls recommend an idea.
Some broad themes are:
Digital India
Skill India
Swatch Bharat(cleanliness)
Swasth bharat(health)
Make in India
...
I have an idea ☺
Pls review or suggest new ideas.
Water purification using ancient indian ayurveda.
I searched your project base, I liked those related to surveys ,and those related to computer science and engineering.
Pls suggest an idea

Hi SagnikMandal,

Your water purification project idea seems to fit within the broad themes mentioned in your post. And water purification is an interesting topic for a project.

There are several Science Buddies projects related to water purification. The objective of one of these is to compare the effectiveness of water filtration methods:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... er#summary

You might consider comparing water purification using Indian Ayurveda with other methods (like filtration). And you might be able to use some of the procedures from the project described above.

Some other water purification projects are listed below. These may provide useful background information or ideas on experiments if you choose to work on this topic.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... er#summary

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ated-water

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... occulation

I hope this helps. Please ask again if you have more questions.

A. Norman