Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2022 Software Grand Finale was held today and will continue till tomorrow. While addressing the grand finale through video conferencing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that we have to make research and innovation a way of living. There should now be more acceptance for innovation and enterprise in the society.
The Prime Minister further said that the country has seen a lot of progress in the last seven to eight years and revolutions are taking place one after the other. Revolutions are taking place in various industries including infrastructure, health, digital and technology, agriculture, defence, as well as talent revolution.
The country is working on big resolutions that how our country will be after 100 years of independence. You are the flag bearer of the slogan ‘Jai Anusandhan’ for the fulfillment of these resolutions.”
PM Modi also stressed on the need to enhance the fourth culture of innovation in India. For this we have to pay constant attention to two things – social support and institutional support. original thinking. “Research and innovation must transform the way of life from the way of working”, he said.
above 15,000 students and mentors are participating in the grand finale The fifth edition of SIH, which is being conducted at 75 nodal centres. The 75 nodal centers hosting SIH include IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati, LPU, IIT BHU, BIT Ranchi, Chandigarh University, RV University, Presidency University, MIT Pune, SRM, etc.
A problem statement is given to each of the participating teams. A total of 476 problem statements from 53 central ministries were given in the finale. The problem statements include optical character recognition (OCR) of temple inscriptions and translations into Devanagari scripts, IoT-enabled risk monitoring systems in cold supply chains for perishable foods, high-resolution 3D models of the terrain and basic disaster relief systems. Includes structures and road conditions. affected areas, reads the official notice.
The winners will be awarded a prize money of Rs 1 lakh on each problem statement. Three prizes of Rs 1 lakh, Rs 75,000 and Rs 50,000 will be given to the winners under the student innovation category. The final result will be declared tomorrow.
It has been the constant endeavor of the Prime Minister to promote the spirit of innovation in the country, especially among the youth. Keeping this vision in mind, Smart India Hackathon (SIH) was started in the year 2017. SIH is a nationwide initiative to provide a platform to the students to solve the serious problems of the society, organizations and government. It aims to inculcate a culture of product innovation, problem-solving and out-of-the-box thinking among the students,” PIB had said earlier.
With PTI inputs
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