NICMAR’s Bharat Nav-Nirmaan Challenge Hyderabad Round Showcases Student Infrastructure Innovations

The Hyderabad City Round of the Bharat Nav-Nirmaan Challenge, NICMAR’s flagship national student innovation initiative, concluded on February 24, 2026, in Hyderabad. The competition brought together

more than 20 undergraduate engineering and architecture teams to present practical solutions addressing real-world infrastructure and built environment challenges.

Organised as part of a structured, multi-stage national platform, the challenge aims to encourage young technical talent to engage with India’s rapidly evolving Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Project (CRIP) sectors. The Hyderabad finale saw participation from leading institutions across the state, with projects focused on innovation, feasibility and scalable impact in the built environment.

Entries were evaluated by an industry jury comprising Dr Binaya Patnaik, CoE, NICMAR University of Construction Studies; Ms Anjani S Mandapaka, Director - Project Management at Arquitectonia Home Solutions Pvt. Ltd; and Ar. Nishanth, Principal Architect at Morphemy. The jury assessed submissions based on innovation, feasibility, scalability and relevance to current infrastructure demands, noting a strong application of technical fundamentals combined with practical implementation thinking.

Congratulating the winners of Hyderabad city-round and highlighting the importance of such challenges, Dr Tapash Kumar Ganguli, Director-General, NICMAR said, “Participating students in this round showcased bold ambition with sharp engineering mind. The solutions presented at the Hyderabad City Round showcased ideas ready to disrupt the built environment, highlighting the main objective of the Bharat Nav-Nirmaan Challenge, which is to provide such young engineering minds an exposure to real infrastructure problem statements early in their academic journey.”

The winners of the Hyderabad City Round are:

1st - Maturi Venkata Subba Rao (Mvsr) Engineering College
2nd - Vignan Institute of Technology and Science
3rd - Sree Chaitanya College of Engineering

These winning teams will now advance to the regional round, where they will compete with top-performing teams from other cities across India for a place in the national finals.

Supported by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Bharat Nav-Nirmaan Challenge has evolved into one of India’s largest student-led innovation movements focused on the built environment. With prizes worth Rs 30 lakh, the initiative seeks to bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world infrastructure demands by offering undergraduate students early exposure to complex industry problem statements.

As the competition progresses to its next stage, NICMAR’s nationwide platform continues to position itself as a catalyst for nurturing future-ready engineers and architects equipped to address India’s infrastructure growth and sustainability challenges.