CGC Landran gears up to host grand finale of Smart India Hackathon-2022

Chandigarh Group of Colleges (CGC) Landran is all set to host the grand finale – Software Edition of Smart India Hackathon (SIH-2022), from August 25 to August 26, 2022 as nodal center. It is one among the 75 higher educational institutes chosen as Nodal centers for the event, from across India. For this year’s SIH-2022, CGC Landran is hosting around 27 teams which will be competing with those in the other Nodal centers across India, simultaneously, in this 36-hour software product development competition. CGC will be coordinating with the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Indian Meteorological Department (MoD) and Ministry of Ports Shipping and Waterways for their respective problem statements. SIH is a nationwide initiative by Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell to provide students a platform to solve the pressing problems of the government, ministries, departments, industries and other organizations. This year’s SIH is offering a total of 476 problem statements received from 62 organizations. The grand finale will witness around 2,033 winning teams of campus level Hackathons organized under SIH-2022 comprising more than 15,000 students, participate at national level. Hon’ble Prime Minister of India has been interacting with the student participants of the Smart India Hackathon every year since its inception and is expected to interact with the students this year again on the evening of 25th August 2022. Each year, SIH is impacts lakhs of students and provides them a national platform to test their educational learnings in real-world problem-solving. It also aligns their interest toward Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

SIH-2022 is jointly organized by Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell, All India Council for Technical Education, Persistent Systems, and i4c. SIH has been acclaimed as the world’s biggest open innovation model and it seeks to inculcate the culture of product innovation and problem-solving among students. 
It is being conducted annually, since 2017, in two formats i.e. SIH Software and SIH Hardware Editions for higher education students. The event has witnessed huge participation from Ministries, departments, PSUs, and private organizations in providing problem statements. Each Problem statement has a winning amount of Rs one Lakh. Under the student innovation category three prizes of Rs. One Lakh, Rs. 75,000, and Rs. 50,000 will be provided to the winning teams. The scope of the Smart India Hackathon has been widening with every passing since its launch in 2017. The increased enthusiasm among participating students and problem statement provider organizations can be seen in their growing participation over the years. 
As part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has identified 75 higher educational institutes/ incubators as Smart India Hackathon nodal centers to host the participant of SIH and facilitate an environment to conduct the Hackathon. At each nodal center, an officer designated by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell will monitor and preside over the proceeding during the entire duration of SIH grand finale.

SIH-2022 is jointly organized by Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell, All India Council for Technical Education, Persistent Systems, and i4c. Doordarshan and All India Radio are the media partners of the Smart India Hackathon 2022. Shell and AWS are the sponsoring partners of the Smart India Hackathon 2022. Each year Smart India Hackathon is conducted at various nodal centers, where selected student teams, industry representatives, design mentors, and evaluators travel to the assigned physical centers. The Premier and prominent higher educational institutes/ incubators are identified as nodal centers by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and All India Council for Technical Education in different cities. During the SIH grand finale, the student team works round the clock under the guidance of mentors and industry /Ministry representatives to produce the working solution for the selected problem statements.  The program will be centrally inaugurated by the Ministry of Education at 9:00 am on August 25, 2022.