Two of the city-based engineering colleges are part of the nation-wide Smart India Hackathon which was inaugurated on Tuesday and will provide the student community a platform to come out with innovative ideas and cost-effective solutions and help imbibe a mindset of problem-solving.
The SIH 2023 will be on till December 23. National Institute of Engineering and Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering are playing host to the nation-wide event which has attracted nearly 58,000 teams in what is reckoned to be the world’s largest hackathon event.
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. SIH-2023 is jointly organised by Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell, All India Council for Technical Education, and i4c.