

Programs: Anveshana
Anveshana
Evaluating Research as Pedagogy

Anveshana
Anveshana is an Education Research Project dedicated to understand the impact of research as a form of pedagogy on the development of student skills and knowledge.
The program provides an opportunity to passionate high school students to work on a research project of their choosing with the aid and supervision of senior researchers at Prayoga.
113 Student Researchers
37 Independent Research Projects
11 Research Publications
The Anveshana Experience
Access to state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment
Exposure to real-world research experiences
Relevance of projects to contemporary concerns
Guidance from Prayoga’s research mentors
Opportunities to publish research in international, peer-reviewed journals
Student researchers are can conduct innovative scientific research under five thematic areas - Green Chemistry, Advanced and Functional Materials, Earth Sciences, Wellness, Food and Agriculture.
Application Process
Students choose a project of their liking and complete the application process.
Applications are screened.
Screened students are given an online test.
Shortlisted students are then interviewed by a panel of senior researchers.
Selected students will be notified via their school.
Coursework research, methodology, and domain are selected.
Work on the project begins.
The report and an oral presentation of the project is submitted to eminent scientists for review.
Student-Researcher Publications
Depending on work done on the project, Anveshana students have a chance to publish their work in internationally recognised journals.
These four young women were grandly felicitated on National Science Day by the State Government for their triumph in research.
Anveshana students have detected microplastics - including nylon fibers - in everyday salt, reiterating that plastic pollution is an environmental crisis and a nutritional one.
Anveshana 2026 has proudly welcomed 57 young researchers, leading 19 projects in total. They're building on recent national recognition, after the Hon'ble Prime Minister praised Anveshana during Mann Ki Baat.

