The Third Edition of World’s Biggest Open Innovation Model – Smart India Hackathon 2019 was launched by

the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi.
MHRD, AICTE, Persistent Systems and i4c have joined hands to make a hat trick with their highly popular and
innovative Smart India Hackathon initiative (SIH). SIH-2019 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a
platform to solve some of pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product
innovation and a mindset of problem solving.

Some more benefits to join SIH are as follows :

 Opportunity to brand your organization nationally

 Recognition and visibility for your organization across all technical institutions in India
 Young techies from all over the country offer out-of-the-box solutions to your problems
 Be part of World’s biggest Open Innovation Movement
 Opportunity to work with some of the best talent in the country
 Technology Students across India compete to creatively solve problems and offer technical solutions
 Harness expertise of lakhs of students from IISc, IITs, NITs and AICTE/UGC approved institutions

History of Smart India Hackathon:

The event was initiated by MHRD , AICTE & Persistent Systems to promote the Innovation in the Academic Institutes.
The proposal was initiated in the year 2015.

The Proposal: The Smart India Hackathon promoted innovation, out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially
engineering students. It was focused on the problems of social importance as identified by Ministries/Departments of
Government of India.
The first Hackathon was organized in 2017:

The problem statements identified by the 29 Ministries/Departments were placed on the MyGov website, inviting
students (in groups of 6 students with at least one female student and two mentors) to come forward to send ideas and
outlines of a possible solution. Leadership talks were broadcast through Facebook Live session. Orientation and
awareness programs were conducted by AICTE and i4C in 26 different cities to motivate students to participate in this
event. As many as 7531 entries were received from 2100 colleges.

Institute of Management Studies Ghaziabad initiative:

2 teams of MCA 2016-2019 ( First year 2016) submitted their solutions to the problems. Although they could not make to
the Grand Finale but still it gave them a new level of thinking and exposure to the real life problems. They also received
Participation certificate from Government of India
Smart India Hackathon 2017 highlights
 Second Edition Smart India Hackathon 2018

Smart India Hackathon 2018 is a digital product development competition involving all Technology institutes in
India with a reach to approximately 30 lakh students. The initiative challenges the students to come out with out-
of-the-box innovative ideas to build smart applications which will help address major real time problems in our
country. 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
RambhauMhalgiPrabodhiniorganized this event across India.

With 27 Union Ministries and Departments and 17 State Governments having joined this grand initiative
this year, the Hackathon is much bigger than its previous edition. It included 2 sub-editions - Software edition,
which is a 36-hr software product development competition. The Hardware edition, involving building of
hardware solutions will be held later this year in the month of June.

Dr. Anand Deshpande, Chairman and MD, Persistent Systems, Co-chairman, Smart India Hackathon 2018 says,
“Smart India Hackathon is an opportunity for students to go beyond their prescribed curriculum by being
innovative and enterprising while solving problems of national interest. We hope this platform will help them
boost their confidence and motivate them to take on entrepreneurship and other challenges in life.”

According to Dr. Abhay Jere, Secretary, Organizing Committee, Smart India Hackathon 2018, “It is a proud
moment for us as we not only conceptualized but also executed the Smart India Hackathon to establish the
world’s biggest innovation model – an endeavor which other countries may want to further replicate. We have
received a phenomenal response for the Hardware edition of SIH 2018 and some of the solutions have great
potential for success and prove beneficial for India’s progress. We believe that more than 25 start-ups will take
root from this initiative and we look forward to the outcome of the grand finale with a lot of enthusiasm.”

Smart India Hackathon 2018 Highlights:

Software Edition – A 36-hour software product development competition was held on 30th and 31st
March, 2018.

Hardware Edition – A new inclusion, where teams will compete against each other in a 5-day challenge
to build hardware-backed solutions held between 18th to 22nd June 2018.
Institute of Management Studies Ghaziabad Students initiative:
IMS Ghaziabad Students participated in both the Editions with following problems :

Software Edition:

S.No. Problem Statement Problem Source Team name

1. Geographic Information System (GIS) Government of Arunachal Cyber Spear
mapping and tracking of beneficiary of the Pradesh
department.

2. Web portal for single window Clearance Government of Delhi

system for providing online approvals for Bubbling Minds
film shooting permissions in Delhi

3. IOT based Smart Parking System Government of Punjab ELEGANT CODER

4. Advanced public Addressing System Ministry of Railways Creative Crew

Hardware Edition:

S.No. Problem Statement Problem Source Team name

1. Smart Irrigation System Government of Punjab THE SPARTANS

Out of 4 teams submitted solution in the SIH 2018 software edition 3 Teams qualified for the software grand finale,
whereas Government of Punjab did not participated in the Hardware Grand Finale so our Hardware Team could not reach
the Grand Finale but they stood first in the Parikrama event organized by AKTU, lucknow.

Grand Finale Event :

The event was organized at around 30 centers AOI. Two teams were allocated CMR Hyderabad and one team was
allocated Nagpur center.

The event started on 30th March at 8:00 Hrs and ended on 31st March 2018 at 20:00Hrs. The Event was 36 hours involving
5 guidance sessions by experts, 7 regressive evaluation sessions by Corporate and Government experts and elimination at
different levels. 12 teams were selected for the final presentation round. The final round was very crucial as the it was just
your presentation about how you can present yourself in front of the Corporate sector.
Grand Finale Result:
Out of 3 teams qualified for the Grand finale

Team 1: Cyber Spear

They stood 5th position at the Hyderabad Centre and was award Persistent Inspiration Award by Persistent Systems Ltd.
Pune.

Team 2: ELEGANT CODER

Selected Under last 12 Finalists but they were able to grab 2nd prize at Parikrama organized by AKTU, Lucknow

Team 3: Bubbling Minds

They could not make it to the Last 12 but their project was personally appreciated by the Delhi Government and they will
be approached later for the implementation.

Research Publication:
The Students have proved that Smart India Hackathon is just not the limit, Fourth Team (Creative Crew ) which could not
be qualify for the software grand finale published their research work in the Conference organized by D N Patel Group of
Institutes, Pune
What after the Hackathon

The after effects of Smart India Hackathon on the Participants:

1. They were exposed to the World’s Biggest Hackathon.

2. Had A collar up status whenever they say that they were part of the Grand Finale.
3. All the participant students have secured very good Academic record.
4. All are placed in very good companies:

S.No. Name of Student Company Recruited to No of offers

1. Mr. Priyanshu Shukla Tata Consultancy Limited 2
(TCS)
2. Mr. Harshit Sharma Tata Consultancy Limited 2
(TCS)
3. Mr. Shresth Jaiswal Mini Orange Pvt Ltd. 2
4. Mr. Lalit Kumar AMY Softech Pvt Ltd 2
5. Ms. Bharti Goyal J K Technosoft 2
6. Mr. Pawan Kumar IDEMIA 2
7. Mr. Gaurav Kr Kandhway IDEMIA 2
8. Mr. Anshuman Srivastav IDEMIA 2
9. Mr. Anuj Katiyar IDEMIA 2
10. Mr. Md Junaid Anwar Phoenixx Design Pvt Ltd 1
11. Ms. Jasmeet Kaur Phoenixx Design Pvt Ltd 1
12. Ms. Diksha Mishra Minavo 1
13.. Ms. Omi Devi Minavo 1
14. Ms. Deepika Geetanjali Cloud Analogy 1
15. Mr. Shubham Kaliyar Fluper Ltd. 1
16. Mr. Shubham Kumar ANR Software Pvt Ltd 1
17. Mr. Himanshu Tiwari Next Gen Pvt Ltd. 1
18. Mr. Varun Verma Next Gen Pvt. Ltd. 1
Research & Deployment

START-UP

Tech2Home

7 Students out of 18 who went for Hackathon

have designed a new product and are in the phase
of setting a Startup by the first week of January
2019. They have already tested the Product and
are in the verge of Registration of their Firm and
launching the product in the market.

www.Tech2home.in

Research
2 students have started Research work on New
Technology under the guidance of IMS faculty
Members

Name of Student Technology Faculty Guide

Mr. Harshit Sharma AI Mapping Mr. Rajneesh Jain

Mr. Anuj Katiyar LPWAN Mr. Nitin Rastogi

Both the technologies are latest and even Prime Institutes are
not working on these Technologies.
 Smart India Hackathon 2019
Smart India Hackathon 2019 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of pressing
problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem
solving.

The last edition of the hackathon saw over 5 million+ students from various engineering colleges compete for the
top prize at 35+ locations.

In SIH 2019, the students would also have the opportunity to work on challenges faced within the private sector
organisations and create world class solutions for some of the top companies in the world, thus helping the
Private sector hire the best minds from across the nation
The themes are as follows:

The project are divided into complexity type:

5. Simple
6. Complex
7. Complicated
The project titles and the details are as follows:

Total problems available are: 476

Total Problem Statement(s) (Software) : 296

Total Problem Statement(s) (Hardware) : 180
The link for the problem statements are:

https://www.sih.gov.in/sih2019ProblemStatements

Android App: Smart India Hackathon SIH

Facebook link: www.facebook.com/i4C.India/

Other links:
https://www.sih.gov.in
https://innovate.mygov.in/
https://i4c.in

Rules: (as per SIH 2017 & SIH 2018)

1. Team of 6 student members (mandatory of one female
student in the team).
2. Students from only same Institute / College can make a
team.
3. One has to a Team Leader.
 4. Team has to submit video of the software / Hardware for
the first round.

Initiative from MCA Final Year Students (2016-2019 &

2017-2019):
1. Creation of ICube (I3) ( Intellectual, Innovator &
Implementer) Club.
2. All the Previous Year Hackathon participants will be
guiding you 24x7.
3. Might be mentoring you in the Grand Finale.

Note: Hackathon is both for MCA as well as

PGDM students.

Remember :
1. Watch all deadlines

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20 January 2019
 2. Watch all the videos uploaded from SIH group.

First video already ready:

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20 January 2019
 Contact Details:
For any further queries you can contact following persons:

S.No. Name of Person Contact Queries related to:

Number
1. Mr. Priyanshu Shukla 70539 93065 Join ICube (I3)Club
2. Mr. Himanshu Tiwari 70807 03815 Join ICube club + Hardware related (IOT)
3. Mr. Shresth Jaiswal 8077735545 Hackathon details & .Net Technologies
4. Mr. Shubham kaliyar 9650124334 Hardware Details (IOT)
5. Mr. Harshit Sharma 8906768020 Android App and Algorithms
6. Mr. Pawan Kumar 9818173207 Hardware (IOT)
7. Ms. Bharti Goyal 8395046343 Website Front end and App
8. Mr. Varun Verma 8564902460 Hardware and Graphics
9. Mr. Anuj Katiyar 7906824981 Networking and The Things Network
10. Mr.Anshuman Srivastava 7905767390 Android App
11. Mr. Junaid Anwar 9716578640 Android App

All the above students are SIH 2018 Grand Finale Participants.

For Further Queries: Nitin Rastogi : 9911986731

Wishing all the best