The Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2020 has kickstarted with the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ gracing the inaugural ceremony in New Delhi.
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Key-Points
The 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 innovative solutions.
The 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.
The Smart India Hackathon (SIH) is being organised by the Ministry of Human Resources Development and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
The first-level screening of students’ ideas for SIH 2020 had already taken place in January through a college-level hackathon. Only, the winning teams were made eligible for the national-level hackathon.
At the national level, the ideas were screened by experts and evaluators and only the shortlisted teams will compete during the Grand Finale.
The hackathon’s first edition in 2017 saw the participation by 42,000 students, which increased to one lakh in 2018 and then to two lakh in 2019.