Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the participants of the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2023 today at 9.30 PM through video conferencing.
Mr Modi will also address the participants on the occasion. This year, the Grand Finale of the Smart India Hackathon is being held from the 19th to the 23rd of this month. This year, more than 50 thousand ideas were received from 44 thousand teams, which is almost a sevenfold increase compared to the first edition of the Smart India
Hackathon.
Over 12 thousand participants and more than two thousand 500 mentors will take part in the grand finale, scheduled to be held at 48 nodal centres across the country. A total one thousand 282 teams have been shortlisted this year for the grand finale to provide solutions on various themes including Space Technology, Smart Education, Disaster Management, Robotics and Drones, Heritage and Culture and others.