Prabakaran Memorial Best Project Award

The annual general body of Darsana held in 2010, in line with its ideological commitment to promote "Technology for the betterment of society", decided to establish an award for the most socially relevant project from the final year projects of NSSCE students.

The award was established in honour of Sri Prabhakaran, one of our deceased members.

The Prabhakaran Award comprises a cash prize and a Certificate. The annual award money is accrued as interest on a fixed deposit for this use.

Darsana will also extend support to the winners in any of the following:

1. Publishing their idea as a research paper

2. Patenting the idea

3. Setting a startup to develop the idea into a commercial venture

4. All the entries to the Prabhakaran Award will also get direct entry to the prestigious “IGNITE’ innovation contest.

2024 Prabhakaran Award: The process was started in September 2023. Principal, NSSCE was kind enough to nominate one of the staff from NSSCE as the coordinator. With his support, a JotForm was shared to the students. For 2024 Award 41 Projects were registered for Award. 26 Projects were presented during Interim Review in February 2024. 8 Projects were presented during the Final Review in Jul 2024. The winner of Prabhakaran Award 2024 is a project titled “Autonomous Mini Unmanned Ground Vehicle (MUGV)”, which is an innovative and socially relevant project. The award distributed to the winners on 25th August 2024 during the Darsana Annual Meet.

2025 Prabhakaran Award, 11 teams submitted projects, with the final review conducted on April 4–5,2025. The winning project, was “Development of an Autonomous Drone System for Afforestation and Planned Plantation,”. The initiative, supported by a panel of alumni reviewers, helps students refine their ideas with practical feedback on scalability and implementation.

2026 Prabhakaran Award, announced in Oct-2025 and entries closed in Nov-2025. 73 groups of students from NSSCE registered for the award. An online meet being conducted to brief the participants. Initial project screening for shortlisting the candidates planned for Dec-2025.