Smart India Hackathon 2022: PM Modi to interact with participants on Aug 25

India

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New
Delhi,
Aug
23:
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
will
interact
with
students
participating
in
the
grand
finale
of
this
year’s
Smart
India
Hackathon
(SIH)
on
August
25,
Union
Minister
of
State
for
Education
Subhas
Sarkar
announced
on
Tuesday.

The
hackathon
is
a
nationwide
initiative
to
provide
students
with
a
platform
to
solve
some
of
the
pressing
problems
people
face
in
daily
lives,
and
thus
inculcate
a
culture
of
product
innovation
and
a
mindset
of
problem-solving.

“Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
has
been
interacting
with
the
student
participants
of
the
Smart
India
Hackathon
every
year
since
its
inception
and
he
is
expected
to
interact
with
the
students
even
this
year
at
8
pm
on
August
25,”
Sarkar
said
at
a
press
conference.

The
prime
minister
will
interact
with
the
students
through
video-conferencing.
Development
of
a
crime
predicting
model
or
tool
for
hotspot
mapping
using
image
processing
and
artificial
intelligence
and
machine
learning
approach;
transfer
of
multimedia
data
through
police
radio
sets;
optical
character
recognition
of
temple
inscriptions
and
translations
in
Devanagari
scripts;
high
resolution
3D
model
of
terrain,
infrastructure
and
roads
conditions
in
disaster
stuck
areas
and
IoT
enabled
risk
monitoring
system
in
cold
supply
chain
for
perishable
food
items
are
among
the
problem
statements
on
which
students
are
working
during
this
year’s
hackathon.

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The
Ministry
of
Education
is
organising
Smart
India
Hackathon
software
and
hardware
edition
for
more
than
15,000
students.
This
year
Smart
India
Hackathon
–
Junior
has
also
been
introduced
for
school
students
to
build
a
culture
of
innovation
and
problem-solving
attitude
at
the
school
level.

“The
scope
of
the
Smart
India
hackathon
has
been
widening
with
every
passing
year,
since
its
launch
in
2017.
The
increased
enthusiasm
among
participating
students
and
problem
statement
providing
organisations
could
be
seen
in
their
growing
participation
over
the
years.

Every
year,
SIH
is
impacting
lakhs
of
students
and
provides
them
with
a
national
platform
to
test
their
educational
learning
for
solving
real-world
challenges,”
Sarkar
said.
“It
also
aligns
their
interest
toward
innovation
and
entrepreneurship.
A
total
of
476
problem
statements
were
received
from
53
government
organisations
for
the
SIH
this
year.

The
winner
teams
of
institute
level
hackathons
organised
under
Smart
India
Hackathon
2022,
comprising
of
more
than
15,000
students
will
participate
in
this
year’s
SIH
grand
finale
at
national
level.
These
teams
will
travel
to
the
assigned
nodal
center
and
will
work
on
these
problem
statements
during
grand
finale,”
he
added.

Smart
India
Hackathon
hardware
grand
finale
is
scheduled
from
August
25
to
29
and
the
software
grand
finale
is
scheduled
from
August
25
to
26.
Each
year
Smart
India
Hackathon
is
conducted
at
various
nodal
centers,
where
selected
student
teams,
industry
representatives,
design
mentors
and
evaluators
travel
to
the
assigned
physical
centers.

As
part
of
‘Azadi
ka
Amrit
Mahotsav’ celebrations,
the
Ministry
of
Education’s
Innovation
Cell
and
All
India
Council
for
Technical
Education
has
identified
75
higher
educational
institutes
and
incubators
as
Smart
India
Hackathon
nodal
centers
to
host
the
participant
of
SIH
and
facilitate
an
environment
to
conduct
the
Smart
India
hackathon
in
its
well
defined
and
established
format.

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“At
each
nodal
center,
an
officer
designated
by
the
Ministry
of
Education’s
Innovation
Cell
will
monitor
and
preside
over
the
proceeding
during
the
entire
duration
of
SIH
grand
finale.
The
participation
of
females
in
the
Smart
India
hackathon
is
also
very
impressive.

The
male
to
female
ratio
of
participants
that
are
travelling
to
the
nodal
centers
for
the
hackathon
grand
finale
is
almost
1.5:1,”
Sarkar
said.
The
winners
in
the
Smart
India
Hackathon
on
each
problem
statement
will
be
awarded
a
prize
amount
of
Rs
1
lakh.
Under
the
student
innovation
category
three
prizes
of
Rs
1
lakh,
Rs
75,000
and
Rs
50,000
will
be
awarded
to
the
winning
teams.