Navrachana University hosts Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Hackathon

Vadodara: Navrachana University, the area’s premier multi-disciplinary non-public college, hosted the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Hackathon, organised by the state training division, on Friday.

The hackathon, primarily aimed to search out options for numerous challenges confronted by authorities departments by means of numerous modern mechanisms and processes, is being organised at 10 academic institutes within the state and Navrachana University is among the many host centres.

A complete of thirty-nine groups with 239 college students are collaborating within the hackathon at Navrachana University. The sectors of the hackathon for the college embody Border Security pressure, Education Department, Youth, Sports & Cultural Activities Department, and The Smart City Ahmedabad Development.

“It is heartening to see the enthusiastic scholar participation within the hackathon. I lengthen my honest congratulations to the scholars who’ve made it to the finale and are working onerous to deal with the issue statements posed to them. The hackathon is a platform that helps college students come out of their consolation zones and suppose out of the field. I thank the federal government of Gujarat, Education division, Gujarat Knowledge society and SSIP group for organising the hackathon and inspiring institutes in addition to college students. Technological improvements are the important thing to taking advantage of India’s demographic dividend and making a huge effect on society,” mentioned Dr. Sandeep Vasant, Registrar, Navrachana University.

Dr. Vasant additionally mentioned that the Navrachana University Innovation Studio, which helps startups by means of mentoring, funding, networking, IP help, and so on., can be completely happy to help any promising scholar startups and concepts.

The college students collaborating within the hackathon at Navrachana University are from Ahmedabad Institute of Technology, AD Patel Institute of Technology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, LDRP Institute of Technology and Research, Nirma University, GLS University, Marwadi Group of Institutes, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, LD College of Engineering, LJ Polytechnic, Government Engineering Colleges at Gandhinagar and Rajkot, and Government Polytechnic at Rajkot.

The state-wide hackathon will happen constantly for 36 hours on February 10 and 11 with greater than 17,000 scholar registrations for 775 downside statements. As many as 461 groups with 2,473 college students are showing within the Grand Finale spherical throughout the state. The winners will get a prize cash of Rs. 24.50 lakh and in addition obtain help for Intellectual Property Rights submitting and Proof of Concept improvement underneath the Student Startup Innovation Policy (SSIP 2.0).

The different host institutes embody Anant National University, LD College of Engineering, Government Polytechnic, Gandhinagar, Shri Swaminarayan Institute of Technology, Charutar Vidya Mandal University, Dr. Kiran and Pallavi Patel Global University, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, and Ganpat University.