Our Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, envisages a Digital India to bridge the digital divide in our country and further promote digital literacy in order to make development a comprehensive mass movement and put governance within everyone’s reach in India. In order to work towards our PM’s vision, MHRD, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovation Center (i4C), and Persistent Systems organized Smart India Hackathon 2017, a unique initiative to identify new and disruptive digital technology innovations for solving the challenges faced by our country. The initiative was a huge success. To reiterate the efforts towards our PM’s vision, MHRD, AICTE, i4C, and Persistent Systems is proud to propose the 2nd edition of this initiative - Smart India Hackathon 2018.

Smart India Hackathon 2018 will have 2 sub-editions – Software as well as Hardware:

• Software Edition will be 36-hour software product development competition, similar in concept to Smart India Hackathon 2017
• The new Hardware Edition will be a hackathon where teams will be work for 5 straight days and build their hardware solutions. This competition would be limited to only 5 nodal centres with 20-25 teams each.

What are the prizes to be won?
Prizes for the top winners under different categories are
o 1st prize - Rs.1,00,000/-
o 1st runner up - Rs.75,000/-
o 2nd runner up - Rs.50,000/-

Last date of submission for Software Problem Statements is 24th January, 2018, 6:00PM

Last date of submission for Hardware Problem Statements is 15th February 2018