Govt will provide every resource to youth: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the youth participants at the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2024 said the youth carried the responsibility of building a developed India while the government was committed to providing every needful resource at the right time.

The seventh edition of the SIH began on December 11 across 51 centres in the country where student teams will work on either the problem statements given by the ministries or departments or industries or ideas submitted in the student innovation category. 17 themes were given — healthcare, supply chain and logistics, smart technologies, heritage and culture, sustainability, education and skill development, water, agriculture and food, emerging technologies, and disaster management. More than 86,000 teams have participated in SIH 2024 at the institute level and around 49,000 student teams (each consisting of 6 students and 2 mentors) have been recommended by these institutes for the national level round.

This year’s SIH, with over 1300 student teams competing at 51 nodal centers, has seen unprecedented participation, with a 150 percent increase in internal hackathons at the institute level. The PM also highlighted the government’s recent decision to launch the ‘One Nation-One Subscription scheme’saying that the initiative provides access to international journals for India’s youth, researchers, and innovators, ensuring that no young person is deprived of valuable information. “Under this scheme, the government is subscribing to prestigious journals, enabling widespread access to knowledge,” he said.

Modi also announced that “Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue” would be held in January 2025, where youth from across the country will participate and give their ideas for a developed India.

He added that youth and their ideas will be selected and a Young Leaders Dialogue would be organised in New Delhi with them on 11-12 January, on the occasion of Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary.