NIT team wins Smart India Hackathon

Hamirpur, March 24

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A six-member team comprising students of the National Institute of Technology here won the Smart India Hackathon (SIH)-2020 today by creating solutions to provide a “second eye” to blind people using artificial intelligence. The team got the prize money of Rs 1 lakh. They are Uttkarsh Chaurasia, team leader, Rishabh Dhenkawat, Aditi Katoch, Mohammad Nomaan, Navdeep Singh Rathore, Sitaram Rathi and Rishabh Verma.

The Smart India Hackathon is organised every year by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. It is a nationwide initiative of the government that provided students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems that society faces in routine.

Prof Lalit Kumar Awasthi, Director, NIT, said continued and focused work towards the innovative solution for physically challenged people reflected the human concern of the team. — OC