New Delhi-The Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon began at 28 centres across the country . Union Minister for Human Resource Development,Praksh Javadekar declared the Hackathon open at the Delhi centre of SIH 2018. In this world’s largest innovation under Digital India, about 1300 teams are participating to evolve software solutions to 340 problems given by the different Ministries,Departments and State

Governments. The event has been jointly organized by Ministry of HRD, AICTE, Persistant Systems i4Cand RambhauMhalgiPrabodhini.
The Chairperson of All India Council for Technical Education Prof. Anil D Sahasrabudhe informed that Smart India Hackathon which began only last year has shown remarkable progress in terms of involvement of students and Ministries. In the last Hackathon, the number of students was 40,000 which have risen to 1 lakh this time.