Smart India Hackathon’18: Hub for directly engaging with technical students

New Delhi, December 13: The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) is ready to launch Smart India Hackathon 2018. It is the world’s largest digital national building initiative. Through this initiative, HRD Ministry is keen to reach out to all technology institutions in the country and challenge students to offer innovative solutions to some of the daunting problems faced by our nation.

PM Narendra Modi, envisages a Digital India to bridge the digital divide in our country and further promote digital literacy in order to make development a comprehensive mass movement and put governance within everyone’s reach in India. In order to work towards PM’s vision, MHRD, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovation Center (i4C), and Persistent Systems organized Smart India Hackathon 2017, a unique initiative to identify new and disruptive digital technology innovations for solving the challenges faced by our country. The initiative was a huge success.

Till now more than 45 union ministries and departments and 18 state governments have already joined this grand initiative, making it much bigger than the previous edition. Through this initiative, govt. departments will directly engage with thousands of technical students and challenge them to build digital solutions to improve their efficiency, plug revenue leakages and corruption.

 

Smart India Hackathon 2018 is a non-stop digital product development competition, where problems are posed to technology students for innovative solutions. It:

· Harnesses creativity & expertise of students

· Sparks institute-level hackathons

· Builds funnel for ‘Startup India’ campaign

· Crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life

· Provides opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems