Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 Enters Guinness World Records

School-level innovation in India now has a world record to its name. The Ministry of Education said on 27 October 2026 that the Viksit Bharat Buildathon (VBB) 2025 has been certified by Guinness World Records as the largest innovation solution competition ever held, a mark the ministry called a historic milestone for school education and grassroots invention.

What the record is for

The contest collected 2,87,967 project entries from pupils across the country. Entries came through two streams, the Idea Track and the Prototype Track, and it is this scale of participation that won the title of 'Largest Innovation Solution Competition'. The certificate will be handed over formally at the closing function.

Who conducts it

The Buildathon is run by the Department of School Education and Literacy, known as DoSEL, together with the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and the All-India Council for Technical Education. Four ideas hold it up: Atmanirbhar Bharat, Swadeshi, Vocal for Local and Samriddh Bharat. Its purpose is to move school children beyond classroom learning towards solving problems, holding patents and building enterprises of their own.

The felicitation ceremony

Union Education Minister Shri Pralhad Joshi will honour the winning student innovators at a ceremony in New Delhi on 28 October 2026. Ten national-level winning teams will be felicitated and their models put on display, and the Guinness presentation will take place at the same event. Minister of State for Education Shri Jayant Chaudhary is expected to attend. Also present will be DoSEL Secretary Shri T. K. Anil Kumar, Additional Secretary Shri Dheeraj Sahu and AICTE Chairman Prof. T. G. Sitharam, besides senior ministry officials, heads of autonomous bodies and representatives of state and union territory education departments.

Other announcements at the event

• Guidelines for Teacher Education Institutions under ULLAS, the Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram, will be released by the Department of School Education and Literacy.
• Work done by the ministry's school education and higher education departments on e-waste awareness and collection will be showcased.
• The transformative solutions and working models of the ten winning teams will be shown to visitors at the venue.