Education Ministry, AICTE launch MANTHAN 2021 to address security challenges

Education Ministry, AICTE launch MANTHAN 2021 to address security challenges

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New Delhi, Updated on Aug 26, 2021 18:26 IST

To participate in the online event scheduled from November 28, 2021, to December 1, 2021, register on MANTHAN’s official website https://manthan.mic.gov.in. The winning teams will get Rs 40 lakh prize. 

Manthan 2021

The Ministry of Education’s innovation cell, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) today jointly launched online hackathon – MANTHAN 2021. 

MANTHAN 2021 will have two phases 

MANTHAN 2021 is a unique national initiative to identify innovative concepts and technology solutions for addressing the security challenges of the 21st century faced by the intelligence agencies. It will have two phases. In the first phase, participants are expected to submit their concepts against the problem statements which they wish to solve on the portal. These submitted ideas will be evaluated by group of experts in the field and only the innovative ideas will be selected for the grand finale or second round scheduled from November 28, 2021. During the grand finale, selected participants are expected to build the solution to demonstrate their concepts and prove to the juries that their ideas are technically feasible and more importantly implementable. Best ideas will be declared winners.  

36 hours online hackathon 

During the 36 hours online hackathon, scheduled from November 28, 2021, to December 1, 2021, selected youths from educational institutions in India and registered start-ups will participate to offer strong, safe and effective technology solutions using their technical expertise and innovative skills. Total prize money worth Rs 40 lakh is announced for the winning teams. Participants are expected to develop digital solutions under six themes for 20 different challenge statements using new technologies such as artificial intelligence, deep learning, augmented reality, machine learning, etc, for ever-changing security related challenges, which include photo/video analysis, fake content identification along with the information of creator, predictive cyber crime data analytics, etc. 

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