The federal government is introducing reforms to take away roadblocks within the path of the nation’s youth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised younger innovators on Wednesday, asserting that the way forward for the world will probably be pushed by innovation and data.
Interacting with the innovators throughout the grand finale of the ‘Good India Hackathon (SIH)’, the prime minister mentioned the youth at this time is creating a sense of possession in the direction of discovering options for the nation’s challenges.
“India’s power is its progressive youth and know-how energy. We’ve launched a brand new Nationwide Training Coverage to nurture a scientific mindset. The federal government is eradicating roadblocks within the path of the nation’s youth by introducing reforms,” Modi mentioned whereas addressing greater than 1,300 scholar groups by way of video conferencing.
“The way forward for the world will probably be pushed by innovation and data and India’s youth at this time is creating a sense of possession in the direction of discovering options for the nation’s challenges,” he added.
The seventh version of the SIH concurrently started at 51 nodal centres nationwide on Wednesday. The Software program Version will run nonstop for 36 hours, whereas the {Hardware} Version will proceed from December 11 to fifteen.
Like previous editions, the coed groups will work on both the issue statements given by ministries, departments or industries or submit their concepts beneath the Pupil Innovation class in opposition to any of the 17 themes linked to sectors of nationwide significance.
These sectors are – healthcare, provide chain and logistics, good applied sciences, heritage and tradition, sustainability, schooling and talent improvement, water, agriculture and meals, rising applied sciences, and catastrophe administration.
In response to the Ministry of Training, this yr, greater than 250 downside statements have been submitted by 54 ministries, departments, state governments, PSUs and industries.
“A 150 per cent enhance has been recorded in inner hackathons on the institute degree, rising from over 900 within the SIH 2023 to round 2,247 in SIH 2024, making this the biggest version up to now.
“Greater than 86,000 groups have participated within the SIH 2024 on the institute degree and round 49,000 scholar groups (every consisting of 6 college students and a pair of mentors) have been beneficial by these institutes for the nationwide degree spherical,” a ministry official mentioned.
