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Business EconomyPosted at: Mar 21 2018 3:26PM


Grand finale of Smart India Hackathon on March 30-31

New Delhi, Mar 21 (UNI) Department of Telecommunication (DoT) on Wednesday announced that Software edition Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018, will be held on March 30 and 31, 2018 simultaneously at 28 different nodal centres across India.
DoT is a ‘Premier Partner’ in this initiative. Launched last year, Smart India Hackathon 2018 aims to harness creativity and expertise of students, builds funnel for ‘Startup India, Standup India’ campaign, crowd sources solutions for improving governance and quality of life, and provides opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems.
Commenting on the event, DoT Secretary Ms Aruna Sundararajan said that technology has the potential to profoundly transform the socio-economic landscape of the country.
She said, the concept of Smart India Hackathon provides the youth a unique opportunity to harness knowledge and 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 organising 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 March 30 & 31, this month.
The Hardware edition, involving building of hardware solutions will be held later this year.
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