India, Oct. 14 -- Over three lakh schools from across the country participated simultaneously in the Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025, India's largest synchronized innovation hackathon for school students on Monday, according to officials. Union Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated the buildathon -- a nationwide initiative to engage students of classes 6-12 to develop innovative ideas that address real-life challenges. Set up to be the largest-ever school hackathon, it went live with events across schools nationwide on Monday.

As part of the initiative, more than one crore students from 2.5 lakh schools across the country are being mobilised to ideate, design and develop prototypes under four pre-decided themes. "The buildathon...