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Smart India Hackathon’s Software Edition From March 30th

[New Delhi] Smart India Hackathon From March 30th
Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of Communications today announced that Smart India Hackathon 2018 – Software edition Grand Finale is scheduled to be held on Mar 30 & 31, 2018 simultaneously at 28 different nodal centers across India. Smart India Hackathon harnesses creativity & expertise of students, builds funnel for ‘Startup India, Standup India’ campaign, crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life, and provides opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems.
Smt. Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, DoT had said that “technology has the potential to profoundly transform the socio-economic landscape of the country.
Smart India Hackathon 2018.is organised With 27 union ministries and departments and 17 state governments .Software edition is a 36-hr software product development competition and scheduled to be held on Mar 30 & 31, 2018.

Centre Says NO To Demand For Shifting NIT Out Of Kashmir

[Srinagar,J&K]Centre Says NO To Demand For Shifting NIT Out Of Kashmir but assures address “genuine” issues
HRD Ministry officials have rejected the demand of outstation students of NIT Srinagar for shifting the institute out of Kashmir but assured them of addressing their “genuine” issues.
A group of outstation students of the NIT met Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and Education Minister Naeem Akhtar along with officials from Union HRD ministry last night to discuss the situation at the institute.
“The Board of Governors of the NITs will be meeting on April 11 where all these issues will be addressed,”
They said the ministers told the students that security has never been an issue at the NIT but the state government will ensure that concerns on this front will also be addressed.