Twelve students from Narasaraopeta Engineering College, located in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, have been shortlisted to participate in the 2nd Smart India Hackathon 2018. The twelve students are among the 1,400 groups chosen from a pool of 20,000 groups from all over India, where each group consists of six students. The Hackathon brings together aspiring technocrats and government and private agencies to develop futuristic solutions for various challenges the nation and its government face.
The second edition of the 36-hour technological tournament is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), and is funded and judged by organisations such as the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), NASSCOM, and others.
Announcing the selection of the students, NEC Director M Chakravarthi added that the twelve students in 3rd year from the Department of Computer Science Engineering (CSE) & Depart of Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE), are going to participate in two separate groups on two broad topics.
The first batch representing NEC includes K Chandrashekhar, S K Mohammad, P Srujana, T Shweta, K Kavyasri, and K R Pawan Kumar. They will be participating in 36 Hour Smart India Hackathon-2018 that will be held in Nagpur, Maharashtra from March 30, 2018 to March 31, 2018. The group, titled ‘TechChamps,’ will solve a technological obstacle currently faced by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways in the highways sector. The topic is centred on tracking nearby locations of civic amenities along national highways.
The second batch includes C H Sai, M V S MadhaviLatha, K KusumaBhavya, M Bharathi, A Raviteja, and G Lakshmi Priyanka. They will be participating in 36 Hour Smart India Hackathon-2018 that will be held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat from March 30, 2018 to March 31, 2018. The group, titled, ‘Space Solutions,’ will tackle a problem facing the Department of Space (DoS) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The topic is titled, "Location-based surveillance offline-routing mobile application."
Program coordinators Prakash Kodali from ECE and Dr. B Jhansi Vajram from CSE and Vice-Chairman, Mr. M. Chakravarthi, congratulated and wished for their success in finals.
The public-private Smart India Hackathon undertaking was launched to complement the Central government’s initiative to digitalise all its services and counter its problems through science and technology, in collaboration with India’s young intelligentsia, of which NEC’s students are now a part of.
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