{"id":6621,"date":"2025-09-24T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:03:20","slug":"minister-for-earth-sciences-dr-jitendra-singh-felicitates-student-winners-comprising-the-indian-team-at-international-earth-sciences-olympiad-ieso-2025-held-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=6621","title":{"rendered":"Minister for Earth Sciences Dr. Jitendra Singh Felicitates Student Winners comprising the Indian team at \u201cInternational Earth Sciences Olympiad\u201d (IESO-2025) Held in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center event-heading-background\">\n<h2 id=\"Titleh2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Minister for Earth Sciences Dr. Jitendra Singh Felicitates Student Winners comprising the Indian team at \u201cInternational Earth Sciences Olympiad\u201d (IESO-2025) Held in China<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"Subtitleh3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><span id=\"ltrSubtitle\"><br \/>\nTeam India Bags 7 Medals Including 1 Gold, 4 Silver &amp; 2 Bronze at Prestigious Global Olympiad<br \/>\nDr. Jitendra Singh Lauds Aspirational Urge in Youth, also from Tier-2 &amp; 3 Cities Fueled by Startup Revolution<\/p>\n<p>NEP-2020 Unlocking Potential of Young Minds by Unshackling Them from Conventional Subject Barriers: Dr. Jitendra Singh<\/p>\n<p>Shift Towards Emerging Fields: Earth Sciences, Biotechnology, Space Sectors &amp; Start-up Led Self-Employment<\/p>\n<p>Minister Urges Students to Explore New Government Incentives and Initiatives like Vigyan Jyoti, Scholarships, Fellowships &amp; Research Grants<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PrDateTime\" class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 07 SEP 2025 1:16PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science &amp; Technology, Earth Sciences, Minister of State for Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh felicitated the student winners comprising the Indian team at the 18th &#8220;International Earth Science Olympiad&#8221; (IESO-2025) held at Jining, China from 8\u201316 August 2025.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Team India put up a stellar performance by securing a total of seven medals \u2013 1 Gold, 4 Silver and 2 Bronze \u2013 along with a 3rd Prize in the International Geoscience Youth Movement (I-GYM) Reporter category.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The winning students included:\u2022 Rayansh Gupta (Sat Paul Mittal School, Ludhiana, Punjab) \u2013 Gold, Silver &amp; I-GYM 3rd Prize \u2022 Charuvrat Bains (M.G.N. Public School, Kapurthala, Punjab) \u2013 2 Silver, 1 Bronze \u2022 Apam Nidhi Pandey (PM Shri K.V. No.1, Jaipur, Rajasthan) \u2013 1 Silver \u2022 Priyanshi Ghanghas (MD Indraprastha Sr. Sec. Public School, Delhi) \u2013 1 Bronze<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The students were guided by mentors Prof. Devesh Walia and Prof. Hema Achyuthan, with Dr. Jagvir Singh, Scientist-G, as observer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Jitendra Singh lauded the young achievers for bringing glory to the nation and said the results reflect the new aspirational spirit among youth, particularly from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, after India\u2019s startup revolution in the last decade.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Minister underlined that the National Education Policy (NEP-2020) has unleashed the creative potential of young minds by freeing them from the limitations of rigid subject streams and enabling them to explore diverse disciplines. This, he said, is encouraging a paradigm shift from conventional courses towards cutting-edge fields such as Earth Sciences, Biotechnology, Space Technology and Start-up led self-employment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Dr. Jitendra Singh appealed to students to actively leverage opportunities being provided by the Government through initiatives such as Vigyan Jyoti, scholarships, fellowships and research grants, to scale their ideas and make them beneficial for society.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Dr. M. Ravichandran highlighted that the Ministry supports students for IESO every year by conducting the Indian National Earth Science Olympiad (INESO) across 300 centres in India. From nearly 30 shortlisted students, four are selected to represent India at the international level. He noted that in recent years, India\u2019s performance at IESO has been highly encouraging.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Dr. Jitendra Singh also urged the students not to limit their pursuit to winning competitions, but to broaden their horizons and apply their innovations to solve real-life problems for the larger good of citizens.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO), established in 2003 by the International Geoscience Education Organization (IGEO), is an annual competition for secondary school students (Class IX\u2013XII) worldwide. India has been participating since 2007 and hosted the 10th edition at Mysore in 2013.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image001CR95.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image0027AKR.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image003OEH7.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Earth Sciences Dr. Jitendra Singh Felicitates Student Winners comprising the Indian team at \u201cInternational Earth Sciences Olympiad\u201d (IESO-2025) Held in China Team India Bags 7 Medals Including 1 Gold, 4 Silver &amp; 2 Bronze at Prestigious Global Olympiad Dr. Jitendra Singh Lauds Aspirational Urge in Youth, also from Tier-2 &amp; 3 Cities Fueled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6623,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions\/6623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}