New Delhi: Smart India Hackathon 2018 – Software edition Grand Finale is scheduled to be held on March 30thand 31st, 2018 simultaneously at 28 different nodal centers across India. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is a ‘Premier Partner’ in this initiative. Launched on Oct 16, 2017 in Pune, Smart India Hackathon 2018 harnesses creativity & expertise of students, builds funnel for ‘Startup India, Standup India’ campaign, crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life, and provides opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems. Shri Hardeep S. Puri, Minister of State(I/C) for Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs will be the Chief Guest during the valedictory session of the event of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs to be held on 31st March, 2018 at RMK Engineering College, Chennai.
Details pertaining to the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs are as follows :
| Software Problems Statements proposed | Shortlisted Teams for Grand Finale | No. of Youngsters competing in Grand Finale | Nodal Center for Grand Finale | |
| MoHUA | 7 | 26 | 208 | Chennai |
| Overall event | 340 | 1282 | 10250+ | NA |
Smart India Hackathon 2018
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and in collaboration with i4c, MyGov, Persistent Systems and RambhauMhalgiPrabodhiniis organizing Smart India Hackathon 2018. With 27 Union Ministries and Departments and 17 State Governments having joined this grand initiative, SIH2018 is much bigger than its previous edition. 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, 2018. The Hardware edition, involving building of hardware solutions will be held later this year.
During the software edition grand finale, teams of thousands of technology students will build innovative digital solutions for problems posed by different Central Govt. Ministries/ Departments.
Smart India Hackathon 2018 would be the second massive scale hackathon initiative in India following Smart India Hackathon 2017. Winners stand to get cash prizes and a chance to be part of the NASSCOM’s 10,000 Startups program.
