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Programs: Anveshana

Anveshana

Evaluating Research as Pedagogy

selective focus photography of girl drinking water

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

  1. Students choose a project of their liking and complete the application process.

  2. Applications are screened.

  3. Screened students are given an online test.

  4. Shortlisted students are then interviewed by a panel of senior researchers.

  5. Selected students will be notified via their school.

  6. Coursework research, methodology, and domain are selected.

  7. Work on the project begins.

  8. 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.

Programs: Anveshana

Programs: Anveshana

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.