Aatma-Nirbhar Bharat Hackathon-2020

Inaugural Ceremony

Faridabad, 20 May – Director General, Higher Education and Technical Education, Haryana, Sh. Ajit
Balaji Joshi has urged the budding engineers and technocrats to provide innovative solutions for
government and primary sector, especially agriculture to tide over the Covid-19 crisis. He also
assured to provide financial assistance to such a solution based project of the students by
Government.

Director General Sh. Ajit Balaji Joshi was addressing the inaugural session of Leadership Webinar on
Exploring Start-up opportunities in Post-COVID Future to mark the occasion of three-day Aatma-
Nirbhar Bharat – Hackathon competition organized by the Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) of the
University, sponsored under TEQIP-III. The session was presided over by Vice Chancellor Prof. Dinesh
Kumar. The event was convened by President of Institute Innovation Cell (IIC) Dr. Lakhwinder Singh,
Dr. Sapna Gambhir and supported by TEQIP Project Director Dr. Vikram Singh and Director, Alumni
and Corporate Affairs Cell Dr. Sanjeev Goyal.

As many as 199 students comprising of 55 teams from University and affiliated colleges have
registered in the Aatma-nirbhar Bharat – Hackathon. The winners of this competition will be
provided incentive prizes upto Rs. 5 lakh for first three positions in the form of seed
money/incubation support under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP-III).

Director General Sh. Joshi said that despite of COVID-19 lockdown, the farming sector is functioning
smoothly and there is no much impact on its growth. However, its Supply Chain Networks requires
contactless delivery mechanism. If similar solutions can be built for agriculture sectors and farmers,
he would be more than willing to take it to government and explore the possibility of implementing
such solutions. He encouraged students to work on such innovative technology startups to create
solutions for government and primary sector. He also spoke about the need of new technology and
localized innovative solutions for various government programs.

Earlier, in his welcome address, Vice Chancellor Prof. Dinesh Kumar spoke eloquently on the need of
innovation and entrepreneurship in Post-Pandemic business environment. Encouraging the students,
he said that the country has high hopes from young engineering in Covid-19 crisis as they can
contribute in rebooting the post-corona economy with innovative startup solutions.

The session was followed by an interactive panel discussion with experts from within the industry
which was moderated by Mr. Ajay Sharma, Adjunct Faculty in the University. The discussion was
focused on exploring the opportunities to provide local solutions to local problems.

Vice Chancellor also posed the question to the panel about the possible solution for migratory
labour problem especially keeping in mind the humanitarian aspects. He encouraged students to
come forward and offer innovative technology based solutions to current and future problems, and
assured that university will provide them full support and guidance. He asserted that corporate
sector needs to focus on local talent and local procurement to realize the vision of Aatma-nirbhar
Bharat and invited industry representative to collaborate with university students to find innovative
local solutions.
During the panel discussion, Sh. Rameesh Kailasam, a renowned expert in Policy Formation,
Government Reforms and a business strategist, currently heading IndiaTech.org (a not-for-profit
start-up industry association voice) spoke about the changes in policy framework which government
is introducing to facilitate ease of doing business in India. He gave an example how an Online Travel
Portal company has to have offices in all 37 States and GST registration to operate from India, but it
can do business with same client all over India with just one branch, if they setup office outside
India. He told the students and participants to focus on brining technology innovations to solve local
problems, but keep an eye for global markets.

Dr. Ashok Kumar, an Expert from Manufacturing Industry, spoke about the new opportunities and
possibilities which will arise in the Manufacturing Sector after COVID-19, especially after slew of
measures and incentives announced by government of India to promote Aatm-Nirbhar Bharat and
companies looking to shift their manufacturing out of China. He insisted that students should keep a
positive outlook and work on enhancing their core skills during the lockdown period.

Sh. Suneel Wattal, Joint Chief Information and Technology Officer, Dept. of IT, Electronics, and
Communications, Govt. of Haryana, spoke about the problems emerging due to this pandemic and
their long term impact on people’s approach to life and changed priorities. In the evolving scenario,
he insisted that more focus will be on reduced physical contact and substantial increase in remote
working. In such times, startups need to focus on technology and innovation, as that is going to be
the key to success in these unusual circumstances.

Sh. Vivek Mittal, Senior Staff Engineer at Synopsys India (P) Ltd. and also being an alumnus, talked
about how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will hold the key to a better future. More and
more companies would adopt technology to reduce human interventions. Thus, more scope in these
technologies and related products. In the end, Registrar Dr. S. K. Garg proposed the formal vote of
thanks.

The webinar was concluded with a question-answer session in which the students clarified their
doubts with the experts on various start-up opportunities in post-pandemic situation and how to
take advantage of it.

Themes Details:
 COVID-19
o Logistic Solutions
o Sanitization Solutions
o Medicine and Monitoring Solutions
 Social Sector
o Agriculture
o Health
o Security
o Education
 SIH2020 Problems
Organizing Team Details

S.N Tasks Faculty Coordinator

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1 Arrangements and conducting Online Webinar Dr. Rashmi Chawla
Dr. Rashmi Popli
Ms. Jyotsana

2 Banners, Content on Social media, E Certificate Dr. Rajeev Saha

Design, Letter of appreciation Dr. Sakshi
Dr. Ashlesha

3 Google form /WhatsApp group creation Dr. Krishan Verma

communication with students through group or Dr. Nikhil Dev
email Dr. Parveen

4 Evaluation Performa design, Conducting evaluation Mr. Ajay Sharma

rounds, Arranging Mentors and evaluators, Result Dr. Deepika
Coordination and Publication Dr. Sheilza
Dr. Manvi

5 Report Preparation Dr. Sapna

Dr. Parul Tomar
Sh. Jitender Yadav, PRO
6 Arrangements and conducting Valedictory Dr. Rashmi Chawla
ceremony Dr. Rashmi popli
Ms. Jyotsana

Student Participation Details

S.NO Theme Teams Count

1 COVID-19 25

2 Social Sector 19

3 SIH2020 Problems 02

Jury Members Details

S.NO Theme Jury Members

1 COVID-19 Prof. Hari OM
Prof. Komal Bhatia
Prof. Rajesh Ahuja
 Sh. Vinod Rajpal (1987 Batch)
2 Social Sector Prof. Poonam Singhal
Prof. Ashutosh Dixit
Dr. Renuka Gupta
Sh. Manjit Saberwal (1974 Batch)
3 SIH2020 Problems Prof. Manjeet Singh
Prof. Arvind Gupta
Dr. Neetu Gupta
Ms. Rashmi Chawla
Sh. Arvinder Singh Narang ( 1985 Batch)
4 Top-10 Presenation Prof. Tilak Raj
Prof. Atul Mishra
Sh. Ashbeer Singh
Mr. Ajay Sharma
Mr. Anil Breja (1988 Batch)

TOP -10 Teams Details

Valedictory Ceremony
The valedictory Ceremony of three-day Aatma-Nirbhar Bharat – Hackathon competition organized
by the Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) of J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA,
Faridabad concluded with the declaration of winners.

Sh. Sukhdev Singh, Director, Hind Hydraulics & Engineers was the chief guest in the valedictory
function which was held in the presence of Vice Chancellor Prof. Dinesh Kumar .
Sh. Sukhdev Singh applauded the initiative taken by the University to conduct such kind of event to
encourage young minds to apply their skills in right direction.

Vice Chancellor Prof. Dinesh Kumar congratulated the members of IIC and organizing team for
successfully conducting the event. He said that events of such kind provide a platform to students to
exhibit their skills and talent and inspire them to do something for the betterment of society. He also
extended best wishes to the winners of the competition. Registrar Dr. S.K. Garg and TEQIP
Coordinator Dr. Munish Vashisth were also present on this occasion.

The students projects received in the three-day Hackathon competition were evaluated on various
parameters by the panel of jury which included MOB representatives, industry experts and faculty
members of University in different rounds. Sh. Vinod Rajpal, Sh. Manjeet Sabarwal, Sh. Arvinder
Singh Narang and Sh. Anil Bareja were among in the jury panel from MOB.

The winners would be provided incentive prizes upto Rs. 5 lakh for first three positions in the form of
seed money/incubation support under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme
(TEQIP-III).

The function concluded with formal vote of thanks by TEQIP Project Director Dr. Vikram Singh. Dr.
Rashmi Popli and Ms. Rashmi Chawla were Organizing Secretaries of this event and extended
support for its smooth conduction

Winner’s Detail
The first prize was won by team Cybercrats who developed a platform for users to know about the
servicing and maintenance cost of a vehicle. The second prize was given to team Suvidha for
providing solution to Agriculture Sector and concept of virtual grain market and third prize given to
team Shield for providing solution to prevent from spread of corona virus.
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