Smart IGNOU Hackathon - 2025

Smart IGNOU Hackathon-2025

The Ministry of Education’s (MoE’s) Innovation Cell (MIC) and AICTE have launched the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2025. It's a non-stop product development competition, where problem statements are posed to students for innovative solutions. SIH 2025 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to find innovative solutions to some of the pressing problems faced by our society. For details about Smart India Hackathon, students can visit SIH Website https://sih.gov.in/.

What is the Smart IGNOU Hackathon?

In order to select the Teams for SIH-2025, IGNOU is organizing an Internal Hackathon named as Smart IGNOU Hackathon-2025 at the University level. Internal Hackathon will be organized in the last week of September 2025 at IGNOU in Virtual Mode. Smart IGNOU Hackathon-2025 is a gateway for IGNOU Students to participate in the National Smart India Hackathon-2025.

What are Problem Statement and Themes?

The interested students can choose any problem statement given on the SIH Website under the sectors Renewable/Sustainable Energy, Blockchain and Cyber Security, Smart Education, Fintech, Smart Automation, Fitness and Sports, Heritage and Culture, Meditech/Biotech/Healthtech, Agriculture, Foodtech and Rural Development, Smart Vehicles, Transportation and Logistics, Robotics and Drones, Clean and Green Technology, Tourism, Space Technology, Disaster Management, Games & Toys and Miscellaneous.

What is Format for Submitting the Proposal?

Interested students may submit their details in the following format through email at ncide@ignou.ac.in :

1. Team Name

2.  Choose Problem Statement for the SIH Website

3. Idea Title

4. Idea Description

5. Idea PPT in PDF Format

6. Name of Team Leader and other five Team Members along with Email and Mobile Number of each member.

After teams are selected in the Internal Hackathon, their registration will be done through SIH Website and hand holding will be done by National Centre for Innovation in Distance Education (NCIDE) with the help of other Experts.

Why should you participate in Smart India Hackathon?

Participation in such a national level event will be a matter of pride. The winning teams at the National level Hackathon will be awarded with a cash prize up to Rs. One Lakh by the MoE based on complexity level of the problem and further they will be supported financially as well as academically and technically to develop the end product by the SIH team.

Whom to Contact?

For any clarification, you may contact Dr. Sujata Santosh, Assistant Director (Selection Grade), NCIDE through email at ncide@ignou.ac.in or sujata.santosh@ignou.ac.in. NCIDE will facilitate the selected teams in registration and submission process as IGNOU’s Single Point of Contact (SPOC).