Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met Devansh Gupta and Vartik Shrivastava of DIT University at his official residence. The Chief Minister congratulated these DIT students for receiving the first prize for making a car run on solar energy and electricity in the national “Solar energy vehicle competition” held at Gwalior recently.
On the occasion, the Chief Minister said, “there is immense potential to work in the field of solar energy and power energy. State government is promoting new entrepreneurs under it’s start up policy, and paying special attention to ‘Start up India’ and Stand Up India” to promote entrepreneurship at the grass root level.”
“Innovation in business was getting importance and new technical experiments and business ideas could bring a big difference in the lives of the people,” he added.
A 17 member team of DIT University led by Devansh Gupta participated in the Gwalior competition and went on to win six prizes under different categories.
The highlights of the “Zero Emission Hybrid Solar Electric Car” are:
- The energy source of the vehicle will never deplete
- It is free of noise and air pollution
