Smart India Hackathon concludes, winners announced

Varanasi: The 36-hour grand finale of Smart India Hackathon (software edition)-2020 concluded on Tuesday evening with the announcement of winners in eight groups. The event which was hosted by Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on the digital platform witnessed active participation of 240 talented individuals in 39 groups.
The grand finale was organised by the innovation cell of ministry of HRD and India Council for Technical Education and focussed on use of innovate software tools as a solution against eight challenges and also to develop new facilities for Airports Authority of India.
While announcing the results, co-convenor of the event, Manish Arora said, “Teams including Against The Current Pune, Awesome Case Bhopal, Tech Hackers Moradabad, Pentium Reboots Kolkata, Gudlavalleru College Vijaywada, Metroid Ahmedabad, Canotomas of Pimpadi-Chinchwad in Maharashtra and Technoturners of Thapar University Punjab have been adjudged as winners in their respective groups.”
The results were announced during a virtual valedictory ceremony in which organising committees’ Prof BC Kapri and event convenor Prof Kavita Shah praised all participants and the contribution of jury members, mentors and volunteers.
Addressing the ceremony, general manager (IT) of Airports Authority of India, SK Malik said, “I hope the solutions provided by the participants against eight challenges given to them by AAI, would prove useful.”
For the grand finale of SIH-2020, the Airports Authority of India had given tasks for developing tools which can help in search and rescue a missing aircraft, airport mapping database, a web based software for smooth operations of various facilities, preventive maintenance, mobile based inventory management system, mobile application based passenger facilitation system using artificial intelligence and machine learning for the contest of developing software as solution against them.
The event had been formally inaugurated by the BHU vice-chancellor Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar on August 1 while on the same day in evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also addressed the participants through video conferencing.