Smart India Hackathon on Mar 30 & 31 at 28 nodal centers

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New Delhi : Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of Communications, on March 21, 2018, announced that the much awaited Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2018 – Software edition Grand Finale- is scheduled for March 30 & 31, 2018 simultaneously at 28 different nodal centers across India.

Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of Communications, is a ‘Premier Partner’ in this initiative. Launched on October 16, 2017, at Pune, Maharashtra, Smart India Hackathon 2018 harnesses creativity and expertise of students, builds funnel for ‘Startup India, Standup India’ campaign, crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life, and provides opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems, according to a PIB release.

Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, DoT, has said, “ Technology has the potential to profoundly transform the socio-economic landscape of the country. The concept of Smart India Hackathon provides the youth of our country a unique opportunity to harness knowledge & skills to find innovative solutions to challenges faced and thereby facilitating the progress of Digital India.”

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and in collaboration with i4c, MyGov, Persistent Systems, and Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, is organizing Smart India Hackathon 2018. With 27 union ministries and departments and 17 state governments having joined this grand initiative, SIH2018 is much bigger than its previous edition. It includes 2 sub-editions – Software edition, which is a 36-hr software product development competition and scheduled to be held on Mar 30 & 31, 2018, and the Hardware edition involving building of hardware solutions to be held later this year.

During the software edition grand finale, teams of thousands of technology students will build innovative digital solutions for problems posed by different central government ministries/ departments. Smart India Hackathon 2018 would be the second massive scale hackathon initiative in India following Smart India Hackathon 2017. Winners stand to get cash prizes and a chance to be part of the NASSCOM’s 10,000 Startups programme.