NEW DELHI: The innovation cell of ministry of human resources development had launched “Samadhan” - a challenge to fight against Covid-19 and future challenges on Tuesday. The last date for submission of applications is April 14, 2020.The mega online challenge has been launched with support of All India Council for Technical Education in collaboration with Forge and InnovatioCuris to test the ability of students to innovate.The students participating in this challenge will search and develop such measures that can be made available to the government agencies, health services, hospitals and other services for quick solutions to the Coronavirus epidemic and other such calamities.Apart from this, through this “Samadhan” challenge, work will be done to make citizens aware, to motivate them, to face any challenge, to prevent any crisis and to help people get livelihood.Under the challenge, the students and faculty will be motivated for doing new experiments and new discoveries and provide them with a strong base leading to spirit of experimentation and discovery. The success of this programme depends on how effective are the ideas of participating contestants with ability to find solutions, technically and commercially, which in turn will help fight the epidemic like coronavirus.The names of the contestants going forward in this competition after shortlisting will be declared on April 17 and such contestants are expected to submit their entries between April 18-23. The final list will be released on April 24, after which the grand online jury will decide the winners on April 25.