30 teams won prizes in Smart Gujarat for New India Hackathon

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• Ahmedabad: The grand finale of Hackathon program,” Smart Gujarat for New India” 2018 being organized by the Education Department, Government of Gujarat concluded today at PDPU. Short listed 150 teams comprising 917 students from 11 universities from 15 districts of Gujarat participated in grand finale on 24^th-25^th march in a nonstop 36 hour efforts. This hackathon is a very comprehensive year long program in which wide range of stakeholders closely work together keeping students at center which culminates into this grand finale to bring the best out of each team. This year 17 departments of Govt. of Gujarat like Agriculture,Home,Urban Development, Port & Transport, Energy & Petrochemicals & others  shared 213 challenges to all students across universities for solving them and create innovative solutions. Students from across disciplines like BCA, Engineering, and MCA, MSc IT, Pharmacy and allied branches had participated in this one of its kind program at state level.
• Total 90 Unique problems from 17 GoG departments were attempted to develop prototype during grand finale in last two days by participating teams. Thirty teams from 22 colleges won prizes for their innovative solutions today during the valedictory function of the Hackathon. Out of this 11 teams won 1^st prize each of 50,000 INR for their innovation.
• Teams who participated in final will be given further support and handholding by SSIP cell and respective department of GoG so that some of them can be taken to pilot stage of deployment. External mentors, experts can be linked to teams for further fine tuning the prototypes. SSIP and other agencies may support some of the innovations by giving additional resources further.
• During the award function Shri Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Hon. Cabinet minister, Education, Gujarat told ‘Smart Gujarat Hackathon 2018 is a very comprehensive effort by any State Government at a large scale involving state departments. We have allotted 100 Cr for supporting student innovation & start-ups at Education department level which reiterates the commitment of the state to promote innovation & start-ups by youth’
• “This hackathon is largest of its kind by any State Govt. so far which involves most of Govt. departments and universities in state and trying to leverage creative potential of young students in solving challenges and create innovation and start-up opportunities. Such large open innovation models allows each student realize that they can contribute to national development using own skill, knowledge and efforts. Potential solutions emerging out of this hackathon will be given further handholding by respective department and state SSIP cell to take the prototypes to implementation stage” as quoted by Smt.Anju Sharma, Principal Secretary, Higher & Technical Education.
• Shri K.K.Nirala, Director, Technical Education shared” For the 1^st time Students are exposed to real world challenges at a large scale and trying to develop prototype and innovate using technology. These prototypes will lead to innovative solutions and even start-ups emerging from it benefiting not only for Gujarat but create public good at large. Our Hackathon is a process to link academia, governance and industry and develop innovative model of problem solving and skill building. Solution coming out of this process will strengthen the innovation pipeline involving youth. This process will create long term innovation culture in the state and add hugely to missions like Start-up India, Digital India at grassroots”
• Shhri Samsher Singh, ADG , Home Department who was present during the award function appreciated efforts of all students and shared that Home department will be happy to take insights from this mega program and organise similar endeavours exclusively for Home department of Gujarat Govt.

  SMART GUJARAT FOR NEW INDIA HACAKATHON GRAND FINALE  WINNER TEAM 25^TH MARCH 2018

Sr. No.	GoG Department	Students Team from Institute	GoG Department Problem Statement
1	Agriculture farmers welfare and cooperation department	Silver oak college of engg & tech ahmedabad 077	Ask to agri expert
2	Agriculture farmers welfare and cooperation department	Laljibhai chaturbhai institute of tech bhandu 029	Ask to agri expert
3	Climate change department	Kalol institute of tech & research center kalol 026	Traffic management based on air pollution monitoring system
4	Climate change department	School of engineering rk university rajkot	Traffic management based on air pollution monitoring system
5	Education department	G l s institute of computer applications	Mobile location based student attendance
6	Education department	Birla vishvakarma maha vidhylaya(sfi) vvnagar 008	Gps based vehicle tracking system for school children
7	Education department	Shantilal shah engineering college bhavnagar 043	Education facilitation for "divyang" students
8	Energy and petrochemicals department	Government engineering college rajkot 020	Power complaint tracking monitoring and resolving system
9	Energy and petrochemicals department	Government engineering college bhuj 015	Tariff benefit to consumer at the time of excess power generation in system
10	Energy and petrochemicals department	A d patel institute of technology karamsad 001	Real time power status monitor from domestic equipment
11	Food civil supplies & consumer affairs department	A d patel institute of technology karamsad 001	Visualization of ration card and web based ration card with otp system
12	Home department	Ahmedabad institute of tech ahmedabad 002	Windows forensics usb toolkit
13	Home department	Government polytechnic ahmedabad 617	Reporting and counselling of cyber bulling incidents
14	Home department	Ljpolytechnicahmedabad 633	Facial recognition system
15	Industries and mines department	Birla vishvakarma maha vidhyalaya(gia) vvnagar 007	Electronic document management system
16	Industries and mines department	Government engineering college rajkot 020	Search engine for all govt schemes
17	Industries and mines department	Itm vocational university	Data mining based mou monitoring portal for progress review
18	Information & broadcasting dept	Aditya silver oak institute of technology	Online journalist registration and renewal
19	Information & broadcasting dept	Mahavir swami college of engineering and technology (111)	Online journalist registration and renewal
20	Information & broadcasting dept	Birla vishvakarma maha vidhyalaya(gia) vvnagar 007	Newspaper attendance system for daily weekly fortnight and monthly issues
21	Labour and skill development	Ljpolytechnicahmedabad 633	Job portal for itis students
22	Labour and skill development	Ldcollege of engineering ahmedabad 028	Job portal for itis students
23	Revenue department	Itm vocational university	Integrating of housing service delivery
24	Roads and buildings department	Vishwakarma government engineering college chandkhedagandhinagar 017	Grievance redressal for road maintenance
25	Sports youth and cultural activities department	030 ldrp institute of tech & research gandhinagar (id c322)	Attendance taker by scanning faces
26	Urban development & urban housing development	Parul institute of engg and tech limda vaghodia 037	Identify available parking spaces at bus depots and within the city
27	Urban development & urban housing development	Faculty of engg marwadi edu foundation group of institutions rajkot 057	Citizens and travellers need to be informed about the location of multiple common toilets
28	Urban development & urban housing development	Government engineering college rajkot 020	Drainage management app
29	Women & child development department	Gidc degree engineering college navsari	Caller’s location tracking system (women in distressed)
30	Women & child development department	Gidc degree engineering college navsari	Anganwadi performance management system

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