AICTE Smart India Hackathon workshop today

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Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, envisages the 'Digital India' initiative 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. He also believes that, to ensure development youth should be involved in large numbers as they are capable of offering new, innovative solutions for some of the daunting problems faced by our nation e.g. water management, sanitation, affordable healthcare, sustainable environment, etc.

In order to work towards the vision of Prime Minister, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India in association with Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovation Center (i4c), and Persistent Systems is organizing 'Smart India Hackathon 2017', a unique initiative to identify new and disruptive digital solutions for solving the challenges faced by our country.

A Hackathon is a 36 hrs non-stop digital programming competition during which student teams compete simultaneously at 25 different centers across India to offer innovative digital solutions for any given problem. Smart India Hackathon 2017 will be the biggest Hackathon initiative in the world, as it will reach out to 30+ lakhs technology students across all technology institutions in India recognised by AICTE. Through this initiative, student community to will think out-of-the-box and offer innovative, disruptive yet sustainable ideas to build smart applications which will help in national development.

The Council is organizing an awareness workshop on Smart India Hackathon at Udaipur on 29th Dec, 2016 : 2:00 pm at Auditorium, Electronics Department, College of Technology and Engineering (CATE), Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan - 313001.
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