PM Narendra Modi to Address World's Largest Online Hackathon on August 1: HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal
Observing that it would offer great opportunities for students, he added, "Students would have the opportunity to work on challenges faced by government departments and private sector organizations for which they can offer out-of-the-box and world-class solutions."
New Delhi, July 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the grand finale of the world's largest online hackathon on August 1, through a video conference, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced on Monday.vements of the already conducted hackathons.
"Smart India Hackathon is a unique initiative to identify new and disruptive digital technology innovations for solving the challenges faced by our country. It is a non-stop digital product development competition, where problems are posed to technology students to suggest an innovative solution,." He said while chairing the meeting. Also Read | SBI CBO Recruitment 2020 Notification Released Online at sbi.co.in: Check Vacancy, Eligibility, Application Fee and Important Dates.
Observing that it would offer great opportunities for students, he added, "Students would have the opportunity to work on challenges faced by government departments and private sector organizations for which they can offer out-of-the-box and world-class solutions."
"This year, we will have more than 10,000 students competing to solve 243 problem statements from 37 central government departments, 17 state governments and 20 industries. Each Problem Statement "will carry prize money of Rs. 1,00, 000 except the student innovation theme which will have three winners, first, second and third with prize money of Rs. 1,00,000, Rs. 75,000 and 50,000 respectively," he added.
Pointing out that the Smart India Hackathon has grown in the past few years, the minister said, "The first edition of SIH-2017 saw the participation of 42 thousand students, which substantially increased to 1 lakh in SIH 2018 and later to 2.0 lakh in SIH-2019. SIH 2020 is even more massive as compared to SIH 2019 and the first round saw the participation of more than 4.5 lakh students."
"In order to develop an Atma Nirbhar Bharat, we need to ensure that the teams are carefully mentored from the ideation stage to the prototype stage. Once the idea has come from the student, it should be the responsibility of the mentor to ensure that the idea gets implemented either through the start-up or the department," he said.
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