PM Narendra Modi to address Smart India Hackathon
PM Modi Smart India Hackathon 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the grand finale of the Smart India Hackathon — a nation-wide competition held by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). He interacted with students and enquired about their projects ranging from women’s hygiene products to crime detection technologies to water harvesting. This year, over 4.5 lakh entries were received for the competition.
After interacting with students, PM also talked about the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020. He said that the NEP is not just a policy but a compilation of aspirations of all the Indians. It will convert job seekers into job creators. He gave a mantra to students and said, “never stop three things in life – learning, questioning and solving.”
The Smart India Hackathon began at 9 am when the HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal inaugurated it. Each winning team across the themes will get Rs 1 lakh. In the hackathon, candidates were to create solutions for real-world problems. The competition will take place virtually this year. It had started in 2017 and this is its fourth edition.
During his address last year, the PM had said, “Innovation has the power to overcome the challenges our world faces.” He had also added, “Governments alone cannot bring about changes. What brings about change is participative governance.”
NEP aims at making your school, college, and university experience fruitful, broad-based, and one that guides you to your natural passions. It works on a new approach. The approach of the 21st century, says PM.
You must have observed around you that even today, students are judged based on the subject in which they do not even have an interest. Often, under the pressure of parents, relatives, and friends - students tend to opt for subjects that others have selected. This approach has resulted in a huge population which is education, has degrees but they still feel underconfident, feel incomplete. The NEP aims to change this approach, says PM.
This Hackathon is not the first problem you have tried to solve. Nor is this the last. I want you, and youngsters like you to not stop doing three things: Learning, Questioning, Solving. When you learn, you get the wisdom to question: PM
The New Education Policy (NEP) will make job seekers, job creators. It will work towards changing our mindsets, reform our approach, says PM
To give a better life and ease of living to the poor and economically weaker section of the society, the youth has played an important rile. I believe that there is no challenge that our youth cannot solve, says PM.
I have always believed in the youth of the country. When the demand for face shields grew suddenly bt exponentially, the youth used 3D printers and fulfilled the need.... India's youth is the energy of the Atma Nirbhar Bharat, says PM.
NEP focuses on local and integrates it with global. Where we talk about boosting our local culture and languages, NEP also allows top foreign institutes to set-up campuses in India. This will help in creating India a global hub, says PM
Focus is on what student wants to learn rather than what society expects from you. In the NEP, flexibility has been given great importance. There are provisions of multiple entries and exits. No one way street for students. Such flexibility was long needed in our education system. I am happy that NEP could work on this aspect, says PM
Do not stop three things - Learn, Question, Solve. Learn so you can question things, question and you will be able to create solutions. When you solve problems and make efforts, with your efforts, your grow and with you India grows, says PM to students.
21st century is an era of knowledge, It is time to focus on learning, innovation, and knowledge. This is what NEP does. It works to make your school and college experience fruitful, says PM
It took five years to discuss and debate each aspect and then the new education policy (NEP) was released. This policy, in the true sense, has all the aspirations of all the Indians.
Mission of creating institute of eminence, initiatives like smart India hackathon, more scholarships for students - all these initiatives are aimed to ensure our education system becomes modern and and progressive, says PM
A team of students created a data-driven solution to increase the performance of corporates. Students claim that their product would enable more informed investment decisions. The PM enquired whether this would have applications in government also?
I will ask IPS training institute to connect with you and then you give your presentation to these people. You should interact with people on the field and this will help you make your product user friendly and make it better reaching, said Modi to a MLR Institute student who created products to help police.
Can you create a real-time tracking and alert system which can integrate schools, offices with police control rooms to ensure the safety of women, and children?, PM asks a student from MLR institute who created a solution to reduce crime.
Sitting in Ernakulam, you are creating products to solve problems for people in the North East. This gives power to the idea of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, says Modi while discussing one of the students who created a solution to improve issues of low connectivity
Awareness about women's hygiene has come really late in India. In the past six years, women are doing efforts towards this. Govt is providing affordable biodegradable pads to women, said Modi while talking about a reusable menstrual hygiene product for women.
Students from MGM College of Engineering and Technology, Ernakulam, Kerala created a virtual assistant which can help patients in incubators. PM congratulated these students and said, with data-driven solutions, healthcare solutions are creating a huge change. Poorest of poor and remotest of areas are getting affordable services because of such technologies and this is our aim under Ayushman Bharat Yojna.
To make our facilities, effective, interactive and people-friendly, Artificial Intelligence can be a huge facilitator, says PM to students