SMART INDIA HACKATHON- 2019

Smart India Hackathon 2019 is a platform with provides students an opportunity to come up with innovative ideas to solve some of pressing problems faced by people in their daily life. It inculcate a culture of innovative product and a mindset of solving many problems faced in our day to day activities.

In SIH 2019, students are provided with an opportunity to work and come with innovative idea on challenges faced with in the private sector organizations and create a world class solution for some of the top companies in the world, thus helping the Private sector hire the best minds from across the nation.

SIH 2019 is being hosted at NDIM in 3 years a row.

LEANINGS FROM SMART INDIA HACKATHON AND EXAMPLE OF PARTICIPANT?

The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) under aegis of MHRD, NIC and MyGovhad launched ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’. Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Minister of HRD, and Chief Patron inaugurated Smart India Hackathon 2017.

‘Smart India Hackathon 2017' is a pan India 36 hour marathon nonstop digital programming competition. It was held in Jaipur just three to four days back.

The participating teams concurrently competed across 33 locations in India to offer digital yet sustainable innovative solutions for real time challenges. 29 different government ministries and departments came together and posed 598 problem statements to students participating in this initiative. With 7531 idea solutions received from 2100+ technical institutions in India, it was a mammoth event.

Creatif Pixel, the team from Thapar University, participated in a tough challenge “Startup India mobile app” by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, GoI and Ministry of Post). The team proposed a solution through a mobile app named “Startup India V2.0”. The mobile app has the ability to integrate numerous domains of start-up ecosystem with the capability to provide a simple, one-stop solution for important and relevant information to Startup India, all accessible on a single platform. After a rigorous evaluation, the Creatif Pixel team was declared 2nd runner up and awarded Rs.50, 000 cash prize.

The theme of Smart India Hackathon are as follow:

·        Smart communication

·        Agricultural and rural development

·        Food and technology

·        Waste Management

·        Renewable energy

·        Smart vehicle

·        Health care and biomedical devices

·        Clean water

·        Robotics and drones

·        Security and surveillance