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There are about six lacs technology students who spend at least six months in their final year for doing a project. And yet, nobody knows the fate of these projects. There is no requirement from UGC or AICTE that every student put at least summary of their project on a national portal (some day it will become obligatory for every student). Neither the problems of small and tiny industries are posed to the students nor the good projects of the students are used by the industries. What will such a portal do: promote originality, and eliminate incentives to purchase the projects from third party vendors. The problem is that once a technical mind cuts corners and gets projects done by outsiders, he/she may not have compunction to cut any corner in future. At the same time, every time a person solves a real life problem, he/she becomes a better human being. How to get more and more students take up real life problems from MSME. If even one per cent projects become new products, industry would get at least 6000 ideas to invest in and stimulate demand for new products and services. We could in due course post *technology challenges* from large companies in private and public also at such a portal so that simultaneous attempt is made by many students at cracking their problems. Their advantage will be that (i) they will learn about multiple heuristics aimed at solving same problem, (ii) identify bright young students who they could hire for their in house R and D projects, and (iii) strengthen departments in which promising mentoring and guidance is being provided. We have to develop distributed capacity for nurturing talent in hundreds of small towns and villages through a network of large number of second and third tier of Institutions. Many of these institutions may have top quality departments of specific subjects, which will be uncovered through Techpedia.sristi.org or techpedia.in. Synergy between all kinds of technology institutions will emerge in due course.