Smart India Hackathon 2022

What is SIH?

Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving. The first four editions SIH2017, SIH2018, SIH2019 and SIH2020 proved to be extremely successful in promoting innovation out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially engineering students from across India.

Link to see problem statements Link for registration

Team Formation

All team members should be from same college; no inter-college teams are allowed. However, members from different branches of the same college/ institute are encouraged to form a team.
Each team would mandatorily comprise of 6 members including the team leader.
Each team must have AT LEAST ONE FEMALE TEAM MEMBER.
As the software edition of the hackathon is digital product development competition, majority of the team members MUST be well versed with programming skills. For the hardware edition, we encourage multi-disciplinary teams – which means your team should have a good mix of Mechanical Engineers, Electronic Engineers, Product Designers and Programmers, etc.
The nominated teams should have participated in the recommended Internal hackathon.
The team name should be unique and must not contain the name of your institute in any form
A team can apply for multiple ideas.

Problem Statements and Prizes to be won

SIH2022 brings you problem statements from leading public and private organizations, union ministries, state governments and NGOs in India.
There would be ONE single winning team for every problem statement posted on the portal. The prize money will be given by the collaborating ministry/ industry ONLY IF that organization likes the idea of the winning team. However, it is NOT mandatory to announce only one winning team against each problem statement. If the collaborating ministry/ industry conclude that none of the ideas are up-to-the-mark, they may not announce any winning team at the finale.
Amount of prize money to be awarded to each winning team is Rs.100000/- per problem statement.
If there is a tie between two or more teams, the final decision of the prize money distribution will be taken by the problem statement creator only and once the decision is made, it won’t be changed further.
Teams are also encouraged to think out-of-the-box and provide creative solutions to themes under ‘Students Innovation’ category. Please note that only 15 teams’ max (Including theme based/Student Innovation) are allowed from one college.
Prize money for student innovation category will also be different. 3 teams per nodal center will be selected of which 1st prize money will be of Rs. 1 Lac and 2nd of Rs. 75000 and 3rd will be of Rs. 50000. There may be 3-4 nodal centers (tentatively) for student innovation category.

Miscellaneous Information

Intellectual property (IP) of the winning idea would be split equally between industry that gave the problem statements and the winning team or will be decided on the mutual agreement.
Selected ideas will be supported to be developed further so that industries/ government institutions will be able to utilize these ideas; more efforts beyond the finale are required from the selected teams thereafter.
The ideas or solutions provided/developed/proposed by the team's must be new and must not have been present in any previous event/program of any sort.