Prime Minister to address participants of Smart India Hackathon 2017
The Smart India Hackathon is intended for promoting innovation, out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially engineering students.
It is focused on the problems of social importance as identified by 29 Ministries/Departments of Govt of India.
It is worth mentioning that the starting point of the Smart India hackathon is the Digital India, Start up India andMake in India campaigns, which need skilled and innovative workforce. With more than 10,000 programmers participating, this would be largest Hackathon anywhere in the world, read a government statement.
The Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon will start at 8 a.m. on Apr 1 and would end at 8 p.m. on Apr 2 in 26 different locations in the Country with each location handheld by one department/Ministry of Govt of India.
Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar is the Chief Patron of the campaign. Ministry of Human Resource Development spearheaded the campaign through AICTE as the main anchor.
Various departments and Ministries of the Government of India have identified 598 problems to which 7,531 teams of approximately 42,000 students responded.
In this 1266 teams of 10000 participants from 28 States were shortlisted for the finale. Some of the problems identified by the Ministry of Railways are such as the condition of Railway track is critical for safety of train operations.
The condition of tracks needs to be monitored proactively. A software solution which keeps track of the condition of the track and allied infrastructure and generates auto warning messages about the need of urgent maintenance can help in preventing untoward incidents.
As per statistics of World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), India registers 40 patents per million population, so considering the intellectual capability of Indians, there is a lot that can be done in the field of innovation.
The Smart India Hackathon is an effort in the direction to improve innovation.
This can be done by encouraging students to apply knowledge to the real-life situations, and to find innovative solutions to the day-to-day problems.
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