The document provides information about the Smart India Hackathon 2017 event hosted by New Delhi Institute of Management. Some key details: - It was a 36-hour hackathon where 1,250 student teams developed digital solutions for 598 problems posed by 29 government ministries and departments. - NDIM hosted approximately 30 teams to develop solutions for challenges faced by the nation from 1-2 April 2017. - Winners received cash prizes and support to convert their ideas into startups. Participating ministries also adopted many products developed. - The author's responsibilities included managing event discipline, arrangements for participants, and responding to problems during the competition. He learned event management skills.

1. By:
Name: Vipul Dinodia
Section: M1
Roll No: 458
In partial fulfillment for the degree of
Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (2016-18)
NEW DELHI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
60 & 50 (B&C), Behind Batra Hospital, Tughlakabad Institutional
Area, New Delhi, 110062
Website: www.ndimdelhi.org

2. About HACKATHON
New Delhi Institute of Management (NDIM) is one of the two Management Institutes
amongst the 26 institutes across the country chosen as Nodal Centers by Ministry of HRD,
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to host the prestigious Grand Finale of
`Smart India Hackathon 2017’ competition, a unique initiative to identify new and
disruptive digital technology innovations for solving the challenges faced by our country.
The ‘Grand Finale’ of Smart India Hackathon 2017 will be 36 hrs non-stop digital product
development competition organized simultaneously across 26 different locations in India
during which 1250 teams (per team 8 members, 10,000 participants) shortlisted out of out of
7531 teams of technology students will build innovative digital solutions for the 598
problems (listed on https://innovate.mygov.in/sih) posted by 29 different central govt.
ministries/ departments e.g. Ministry of Railways, External Affairs, Ministry of Defense,
ISRO, Ministry of Tourism, Dept. of Atomic Energy, etc. For the first time, govt.
departments were directly engaging with students and challenging them to build digital
solutions to improve their efficiency, plug revenue leakages and corruption.
NDIM will host approx. 30 teams of 8 participants each from different engineering colleges
across the country on 1st & 2nd Apr 2017.
The participating teams will get a chance to offer digital yet sustainable innovative solutions
to solve real time challenges faced by the nation. It will harness the creativity of millions of
bright young minds. The winners will get support for converting their ideas into startups apart
from cash prizes. There will be multiple prizes worth Rs. 50 lakhs for students but more
importantly, the participating ministries will adopt many of the products developed during the
Grand Finale. NASSCOM and other funding agencies like AICTE, DST, DBT and ICMR
will also select best ideas to convert into startups.
This is in line with our Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of a Digital
India to bridge the digital divide in our country and further promote digital literacy in order to
make development a comprehensive mass movement and put governance within everyone’s
reach in India.
The initiative is aimed to institutionalize a model for harnessing the creativity and technical
expertise of 3.0 + million students for direct benefit of our nation. Mr. Prakash Javadekar,
Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of HRD is the Chief Patron of this unique initiative, while Dr.
Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE & Dr. Anand Deshpande, Chairman, Founder & MD,
Persistent Systems are the Chairman and Co-chairman of the organizing committee of this
initiative respectively. NIC, MyGov, NASSCOM, UGC and Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini are
co-organizers in this initiative. Besides this, several union ministries have agreed to be
partners in this initiative.
Smart India Hackathon 2017 is a collaborative computer programming competition which
involves all Engineering colleges with a reach to approximately 30 Lakh students from across
India who care deeply about the issues and technology impacting projects. The event plans to
challenge the students to think out-of-the-box and offer innovative ideas to build smart
applications which will help address major real time problems in our country.
The event is expected to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's
biggest Hackathon event.
We are confident that you will find this initiative exciting and would like to invite you to
witness this major nation building initiative on 1st & 2nd April 2017 at NDIM.

4. Grand Finale Schedule
Grand Finale
Smart India Hackathon 2017
31st March
Registration process to be completed ( mandatorily has to
be completed by evening/night 31st march)
Time April 1: Day 1
7.00 AM- 7.40 AM Breakfast
7:40 AM Assemble at venue
Inauguration
7:35 AM – 7:45 AM
Inauguration of ‘Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon
2017’
7:55 AM – 8:04 AM Speech by Chief Guest at the Venue
8:05 AM – 8:09 AM
Video Speech by Co-Chair, AICTE, Smart India
Hackathon – Dr. Anand Deshpande
8:09 AM – 8:13 AM
Video Speech by Chairman, AICTE, Smart India
Hackathon – Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe
8:14 AM – 8:19 AM Video Speech by Secretary, MHRD – Shri KK Sharma
8:20 AM – 8:29 AM
Video Speech by honorable Minister of HRD Shri Prakash
Javadekar to announce the start of the Hackathon 2017
8:30 AM Hacking/Coding Begins
10:00 AM Tea And Snacks on Table
11:30 PM – 01:00 PM
Experts Input Session I (7-10 minutes per team, Individual
Ministry Trainer to train the teams)
1:00 PM Lunch
4:30 PM to 5:00 PM Tea and snacks
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
First Round of Evaluation (Three judges per panel, 7
minutes per team, 4 minutes presenting, 3 mins Q and A)
8:30 PM – 9:00 PM Dinner
9:00 PM Coding Resumes
11:00 PM
Redbull Hour, (One Can of Redbull provided to each
individual member of the team)
Time April 2: Overnight Phase
00:00 AM – 00:30 AM
Experts Input Session II (5 to 7 mins per team, Different
Ministry Trainers different teams)
01:00 AM – 01:30 AM Activity: Zumba Dance
1:30 AM Coding Continues
3:00 AM Snacks and biscuits Served on Table

5. Time April2 : Day 2
6:00 AM – 6:15 AM Yoga Session
6:30 AM – 7:30 AM Breakfast served
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Second Round of Evaluation (3 Judges Per Panel,
evaluating implementation of ideas)
10:00 AM Tea and Snacks Served at Table
12:00 PM – 12: 45 PM
Experts Input Session III (Last and final Round of
mentoring by Ministry professionals)
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Coding Continues
5:00 PM Coding Stops
Time Final Phase
5:05 PM – 6:15 PM Round 3 of Judging
6:15 PM to 6:45PM Identification of Top 6 to 8 teams for Power Presentation.
6:45 PM to 7:30 PM
Power Judging ( The final Pitch, 5 minutes per team, 3
minutes explanation, 2 minutes Q and A)
7:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Result Finalization by Judges in a special hall at the
venue
8:00 PM Valedictory Session Starts
8:20 PM Results Announced for all 4 winning teams
8:30 PM National Anthem
8:45 PM Students Will Leave Premises

6. Position of Responsibilities
Co-ordinator for overall event under the supervision of Prof. Nikesh Jain (Advisor, New
Delhi Institute of Management)
 Managing the discipline during the event
 Managing all the arrangements (individual co-ordinator for each team,
accommodation, refreshments, food) for the participants, volunteers, judges, Ministry
officials, etc. from there arrival till they left
 Responding to the problems that the participants are having during their work
Learning
While working for Smart India Hackathon 2017, I got to learn too many things-
 how to manage big events
 how to work in a stress situation
 how to respond to the problems