SME Times News Bureau | 31 Jul, 2020
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will address the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2020 on 1st August
via video conferencing.
The Prime Minister
will also interact with students on the occasion.
The 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.
It has proved to
be extremely successful in promoting out-of-the-box thinking in young minds
The first edition
of Smart India Hackathon 2017 saw 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 participation of more than 4.5 lakh students.
The Grand Finale
of the software edition this year is being organized online by connecting all
the participants throughout the nation together over a specially-built advanced
platform.
More than 10,000
students will be competing to solve 243 problem statements from 37 central
government departments, 17 state governments and 20 industries.