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 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
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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:

1. Simple
2. Complex
3.
The project titles and the details are as follows:

Institute of Management Studies Ghaziabad MCA students submitted

Previous IMS Ghaziabad participations:

The Smart India Hackathon is divided into 2 categories:

The process is as follows:

4. Problem statements :
Government of India collected problems from different sectors of Centre Government Offices, State
Governments, Private Sector Companies, Educational Organizations, etc .

The problems are divided into 2 broad categories