PM Narendra Modi to address Smart India Hackathon
PM Modi Smart India Hackathon 2020 Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the grand finale of the Smart India Hackathon — a nation-wide competition held by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). This year, over 4.5 lakh entries were received for the competition.
The Smart India Hackathon began at 9 am when the HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal inaugurated it. In the hackathon, candidates were to create solutions for the real world problems. The competition will take place virtually this year. It had started in 2017 and this is its fourth edition.
The winners will be announced in the evening. The PM will address the winners at 4:30 pm. 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.”
Since 9 am, over 10,000 students working on their projects, Modi to announce winners. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal claims the Smart India Hackathon is the largest sug competition in the world.
Essential to know the root of every problem and think about 'out of the box' ways to solve them...Innovation has the power to overcome the challenges our world faces, Modi had said while addressing the previous hackathon.
While addressing one of the previous hackathons, Modi had said, "the biggest assets of any nation are Shram Shakti and Ichcha Shakti. Once people decide to bring about change, everything is possible."
The PM tweeted from his personal handle, “Young India is filled with talent! The grand finale of the Smart India Hackathon 2020 showcases this very spirit of innovation and excellence. On 1st August at 4:30 PM, looking forward to interacting with the finalists of the Hackathon and knowing more about their works.”
In order to promote innovative culture in our country, the HRD Minister said that innovation should start at the school level itself and ATAL tinkering labs should be harnessed for this purpose. A proper linkage should be made between students of schools and engineering college curriculum.
As an outcome of Smart India Hackathons till date, around 331 prototypes have been developed, 71 startups are under formation, 19 startups are successfully registered. Further, 39 solutions have already been deployed at various departments and around 64 potential solutions have been funded for further development, claims the HRD Ministry.
Each Problem Statement carries a prize money of Rs. 1,00, 000 except the student innovation theme which will have three winners, 1st, 2nd and 3rd with prize money of Rs. 1,00,000, Rs. 75,000 and 50,000 respectively.
For SIH 2020, the first level screening of students’ ideas has already taken place in January through a college-level Hackathon and only the winning teams at the college level were made eligible for the national round of SIH. Again at the national level, ideas were screened by Experts and Evaluators and only the shortlisted teams will compete during the Grand Finale.
Grand Finale of the software edition this year is being organized online. More than 10,000 students will be competing to solve 243 problem statements from 37 central government departments, 17 state governments, and 20 industries.
The first edition of Smart India Hackathon 2017 saw the participation of 42000 students which increased to 1 lakh in 2018 and to 2 lakh in 2019. The first round of Smart India Hackathon 2020 saw the participation of more than 4.5 lakh students.
Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2020 (Software) will be held from 1st to 3rd August, 2020. This hackathon is being organized by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India; All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Smart India Hackathon is an open platform for the innovators or entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving.