The National Children Innovation Challenge (NCIC) is an extension of the Children Innovation Festival (CIF), an initiative of GUSEC & UNICEF to identify, nurture and support children-led innovations in the state of Gujarat. The CIF, in its two editions, brought about 2088 applications by 3114 children across 29 states of the country into the fold of innovation, with children as young as 7-year-olds submitting their ideas.

Based on the tremendous success of the CIF and the enthusiastic response of children, we decided to open the platform to a bigger audience, giving more children the opportunity to ideate and solve problems of the contemporary world.