SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2017

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1 SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2017 Grand Finale on April 01-02, 2017 A 36-HOUR NON-STOP PROGRAMMING CONTEST NODAL CENTRE: SHRI RAMDEOBABA COLLEGE OF ENGG. & MGMT., NAGPUR AICTE under aegis of MHRD and in collaboration with i4c, Persistent Systems Ltd., UGC, NASSCOM, Rambhau Prabhodini Mhalgi, SumaSoft Pvt. Ltd, Deloitte, ACM India, NIC, and MyGov launched Smart India Hackathon 2017 on Nov 9, 2016 at the hands of Shri. Prakash Javadekar, Hon ble Minister of HRD, Government of India and Chief Patron, Smart India Hackathon This initiative aims to build Digital India and to engage the youth of the nation directly with nation building. Smart India Hackathon 2017 is a pan India 36 hour nonstop digital programming competition. The participating teams will simultaneously compete from across 33 locations in India to offer digital yet sustainable innovative solutions to solve real time challenges faced by the nation. It will harness the creativity of millions of bright young minds. For the first time, govt. departments were directly engaging with students and challenging them to build digital solutions to improve their efficiency, plug revenue leakages and corruption. In the words of Union HRD Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar Through Smart India Hackathon We Hope to Create World s Biggest Open Innovation Model That Other Countries Can Replicate. This has been a unique initiative of MHRD, India in terms of scale and reach. It for the first time has involvement of about 30 different ministries/departments, viz., Ministry of Railways, External affairs, Steel, Postal Services, ISRO, NCPCR, etc., in identifying and posting their 598 problems for students seeking innovative solutions.

2 The Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2017 will be organized, simultaneously across 26 different cities and the winners will get support for converting their ideas into startups apart from cash prizes. Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur is amongst the identified Nodal Centre for Grant Finale with 87 teams. The Various Nodal Centers accords India are Sr Name of Ministry Venue City Colleges/Venue 1 2 Airport Authority of India, Ministry of Civil Aviation All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Allahabad, UP Noida, UP Civil Aviation Training Institute 3 Department of Atomic Energy Mumbai, Maharashtra 4 Department of Biotechnology Bhubaneshwar C.V. Raman College of Engineering Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals Department of Defence Production Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications Department of Rural Development (DRD) Department of Science and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) New Delhi Bangalore, Karnataka Hyderabad, Jaipur, Rajasthan Jaipur, Rajasthan Thiruvananthapuram Bhubaneshwar Kolkata Ahmadabad, Gujarat 14 Ministry of AYUSH Hubli, Karnataka 15 Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Guwahati, Assam Girijananda Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering CVR College of Engineering Rajadhani Institute of Engineering & C.V. Raman College of Engineering Gurunanak Institute of Gujarat University Convention Center BVB College of Engineering & Chowdhury Institute of Management & 16 Ministry of Earth Sciences Chennai, Tamil Nadu Ministry of Electronics and Information (MeitY) Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change Pune, Maharashtra Coimbatore, College of Engineering Pune Sri Krishna College of Engineering and 19 Ministry of External Affairs New Delhi 20 Ministry of Food Processing Amritsar Amritsar College of Engineering 21 Ministry of HRD Ghaziabad, UP

3 22 Ministry of Railways Udaipur, Rajasthan Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Nagpur, Maharashtra Chandigarh Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management 25 Ministry of Steel Indore, MP Oriental University 26 Ministry of Tourism Cochin, Kerala 27 NCPCR Bhopal 28 Students Voice Guntur, Andra 29 University Grants Commission (UGC) Manipal, Karnataka Mar Baselios Institute of and Science Sagar Institute of Research & KoneruLakshmaiah Education Foundation (KL University) AICTE has arranged 26 awareness workshops across India to sensitize students about Smart India Hackathon These workshops helped connect students with problems of the nation. For the 598 problems posted by government departments, the ideas were received from 7531 teams (each team comprising of 6 students and 2 mentors) with approximately 42,000+ participants from more than 2100 colleges across India (with entries from Andaman & Nicobar Islands). Of these 7531 teams, 1266 teams (around 10,000 participants) are shortlisted for Grand Finale on April 01-02, 2017, during which these teams will work nonstop for 36 hours to build products based on their ideas across 26 locations in India. Awards & Prizes Multiple prizes worth Rs. 50 lakhs for students are on offer. The participating ministries will adopt many of the products developed during the Grand Finale. It is expected that NASSCOM and other funding agencies like AICTE, DST, DBT and ICMR to select best ideas and support them to convert into startups. Recognitions Smart India Hackathon 2017 is expected to be the world s biggest Hackathon till date. The MHRD hopes that this initiative will enter into Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of Records.

4 Few Analytics: Till date, 7531 entries received from engineering/technology colleges from across India. Each entry is submitted by group of 6 students which means we have 40,000+ students as participants Maximum responses received for problem statements from AICTE, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Tourism, and Ministry of Civil Aviation Maximum entries received from Tamil Nadu state, followed by Maharashtra 300+ submissions received for under Students Voice sections that invite ideas for problem statements not proposed by any of the ministries. A total of 17 Facebook live talks held regarding Smart India Hackathon 2017 A total of 26 Workshops held to encourage students in every corner of India Massive Online Training Sessions ( underway to train the participants to code the very best at the Grand Finale SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2017 AT A GLANCE Total Number of Departments participating 29 ( and NIC + MyGOV for Departments giving problem statements Tech support) 29 Number of Problem Statements Given 598 Total Number of Teams sending entries 7531 Number of Participants Per team 6 Number of Students applying 40,000+ Total Number of Colleges participated 2183 Total Number of Teams shortlisted for Hackathon 1266 in List 1 and 75 in List 2 Team confirmed participation 1268 Total Teams with Mentors 1058 (some team still do not Mentor (2 Mentors per selected Team) have mentors) 2110 Total participants during Grand Finale Approx.9500 to 10,000

5 State-wise Team Participation State No. of Teams No. of teams selected Andaman and Nicobar Islands 2 1 Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh 4 1 Assam 27 5 Bihar 22 6 Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh 13 2 Jammu and Kashmir 31 6 Jharkhand 35 8 Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur 7 1 Meghalaya 5 0 Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim 11 0 Tamil Nadu Telangana Uttar pradesh Uttarakhand 24 6 West Bengal Others 19 0