SME Times News Bureau | 22 Mar, 2018
The
Ministry
of Electronics and Information Technology Thursday
announced
that the much awaited Smart India Hackathon 2018, is scheduled to be
held in
March
30-31.
"Smart
India Hackathon (SIH) 2018 would give an opportunity to students to
use their creative skills in solving some of the country’s real
life problems and he hoped that outcome of SIH 2018 will result in
innovative solutions which can be commercialized," said
Ajay
Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY
The
event will be held
simultaneously at 28 different nodal centers across India.
With
27 union Ministries and Departments and 17 State Governments having
joined this grand initiative, SIH2018 is much bigger than its
previous edition.
Smart
India Hackathon 2018 would be the second massive scale hackathon
initiative in India following Smart India Hackathon 2017.
It
includes 2 sub-editions -- Software edition, which is a 36-hr
software product development competition and scheduled to be held on
Mar 30-31.
The
Hardware edition, involving building of hardware solutions will be
held later this year.