Smart India Hackathon’17
Smart India Hackathon’17 is a 36 hour nonstop digital programming competition. The participating teams will simultaneously compete from across 33 locations in India to offer digital yet sustainable innovative solutions to solve real time challenges faced by the nation.
Official sources say that this would be the world’s largest event. It is organised by the HRD Ministry of Govt of India. The grand finale of SIH is starting on the 1st of April, 2017.
Hon’ble Shri Javadekar (Minister of Human Resource Development) addressed the press regarding SIH recently. He stated,
“ The concept of Hackathon is still new in India, so AICTE has arranged 26 awareness workshops across India to sensitize students about Smart India Hackathon 2017. These workshops helped connect students with problems of our nation, for 598 problems posted by 29 govt. departments, we received ideas from 7531 teams (each team has 6 students and 2 mentors, Total 42,000+ participants) from 2100+ colleges across India. We have even received entries from Andaman.
Also, out of 7531 teams, 1266 teams (per team 8 members, 10,000 participants) are shortlisted for the ‘Grand Finale’ on 1stand 2nd April 2017, during which these teams will work nonstop for 36 hours to build products based on their ideas across 26 locations in India. For the first time, 10,000 youngsters will work non-stop for 36 to develop products for our nation.
We have multiple prizes worth Rs. 50 lakhs for students but more importantly, we hope the participating ministries will adopt many of the products developed during the Grand Finale. Moreover, we also expect NASSCOM and other funding agencies like AICTE, DST, DBT and ICMR to select best ideas and support them to convert into startups. ”
From Tamilnadu 1990 teams submitted their ideas and out of which 263 teams got selected.
Author : Team PlatinoZine
