The IIT-ISM is all set to host the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon (SIH) scheduled on August 25-26 as nodal center.
Altogether 113 budding techies of different technical institutes from across the country would be brainstorming together to find out the solution of problems being faced by the department of Labour and Employment during the two day event, told Prof Rajeev Shekhar director of the institute.
"IIT (ISM) Dhanbad has been selected as one of 75 nodal Centers for Smart India Hackathon to be organized under the supervision of Innovation Cell of Ministry of Education that is to be held at Central Library Building of the Institute, said prof. Pankaj Mishra dean innovation while talking to media .
Mishra said ,“the 113 students will be representing 18 different engineering
colleges and each team of six members will have at least one female member.The visiting teams will be accompanied by altogether 23 mentors and the 113 participants at IIT-ISM include 69 male and 44 female candidates.
Giving more details, Ajit Kumar SPOC of the event said, “At our nodal centre only the software part of the event is scheduled which means that the students will be using coding techniques to find out a solution to the problem".
All the six problems that will be dealt by the students here will be related to the different issues being faced by the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment.
The techies would work on finding solutions on Complaint Redressal
Machinery; Guidance System for Claims and needs of Labourer; employment tracking and traceability system-organized sector; employment tracking and traceability system-migrant laborer; e Buddy for Rescued Child Labourer; and Knowledge Sharing Platform for VV Giri National Labour Institute said.
He said ,the main event related to coding will begin form 9.33 am on August 25 soon after inauguration at national and local levels is completed.
Preparation for the event is in full swing, said Dhiraj Kumar, deputy Director of IIT (ISM) who is also the chairman of the organizing committee.
Elaborate arrangements of accommodation, transportation, food, medical besides others for participants have been made by the institute.