PM Modi to address Smart India Hackathon 2020 Grand Finale on August 1; 1 lakh for winner

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dress grand finale of largest ever online hackathon in world on August 1, through video-conference, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said on Monday.

Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2020 (Software) will be held from August 1 to 3. hackathon has been organised by MHRD’s All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Persistent Systems and i4c.

Ramesh Pokhriyal also chaired a high-level meeting on Smart India Hackathon and discussed achievements of previously conducted competition. Secretary, Higher Education, Amit Khare, Chairman AICTE, Anil Sahasrabudhe, ditional Secretary, MHRD, Rakesh Ranjan and Chief Invation Officer, MHRD Abhay Jere were among attendees.

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About Smart India Hackathon 2020

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, grand finale is being organised online, and participants across India will be connected over a specially-built vanced platform. Over 10,000 participants will compete for 36 hours to develop invative digital solutions for some of serious problems faced by government departments and industry. 

This year, y will have to solve 243 problem statements from 37 central government departments, 17 state governments and 20 industries. Each Problem Statement carries prize money of Rs one lakh, except student invation me which will have three winners, 1st, 2nd and 3rd with prize money of Rs 1 lakh, Rs 75,000 and Rs 50,000 respectively, an official release said.

Ramesh Pokhriyal said that Smart India Hackathon is a unique initiative to identify digital invations for solving challenges faced by our country. It is a n-stop digital product development competition, where problems are posed to techlogy students to suggest invative solutions, HRD Minister ded.

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(Im credits: PTI)