Title: Udyog Saarthi App  Progressive Webbased Application for Adults undergoing Job coaching for opportunities under 4 reservation in NIEPMD and other Institutions.. Category: Smart Automation. Subcategory: Software. Organization: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Description: Persons with disabilities in our country, despite the progress happening on accessibility, education, skills development, and employment, still face many challenges, especially in the employment phase of life that promotes inclusion in the family and society. Enhancing vocational training and employment prospects for people with disabilities is essential and there are efforts happening at the National level that has to end up in employment that fetches significant economic benefits and dignified life for them. As per the recent survey by the Ministry of Statistics report on Persons with disabilities, about 64 of persons with disabilities in India are not into employment. The vulnerable group of the population with disabilities under the D andamp E categories of 4 reservation in Government and PSU Jobs Persons with disabilities of type, Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Multiple Disabilities, Mental Illness, and Specific Learning Disabilities are either not aware of or not getting notifications regarding the employment vacancies, queries, or other such information due to the unavailability of access to print media, and online services like employment news. They do require a curated and accessible content with adaptations to specifically inform them of the job and details in a simple language with requirement information to apply, know the coaching facilities available and get trained to apply, appear for competitive examinations, get qualified and place themselves to achieve the 1 reservation allocated to them. In many scenarios, the parents of such adults are also not with much literacy, awareness about such job opportunities through their adult children are eligible for them. This results in many of the jobs though published not being applied, for or the right candidates getting a placement as per the reservation and implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Act 2016. Detailed Description Accessibility and inclusion of Persons with disabilities PwDs in the workforce remains a challenging one on a global scale and with much more diversity in our Countrys context. There have been ongoing attempts and measures to ensure the inclusion of PwDs in the workforce especially in the Government and PSUs level by the Department and other agencies working for them. This includes the Job Coach programme, an introduction to job support services, with support for application, training for competitive examination in an accessible manner, guidance to the PSUs and Department for accessible conduct of competitive examinations, counselling, and logistic support for candidates to write  attend the examination and interview thereafter. Finally, on placement, support for workplace adaptations or reasonable accommodation to sustain the job. The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities DEPwD, National Institutions like NIEPMD, collaborating with Government and NonGovernmental Organizations NGOs support with such job coach programme and assist Persons with Disabilities PwDs especially D andamp E category, the most vulnerable group with either cognitive, learning, severe mobility, behaviour management, socialisation, or multiple such difficulties. Expected Solution The software application intends to ÃƒâšÃÂ Create a learning profile of the candidates The learning profile includes persons information with UDID, literacy, skills training, address, functional difficulties faced as per Washington Group Extended Set Questions, assistive devicessolutions used or required, human assistance requirements, aspiration profile. ÃƒâšÃÂ Provide information in an accessible manner to the candidates  parents for various opportunities happening as per 4 reservation in Government and PSUs. ÃƒâšÃÂ Additionally, inform jobs as per equal opportunity policies happening in private sector. ÃƒâšÃÂ Notification on important dates related to jobs application, examination, and interview. ÃƒâšÃÂ Support for model question paper, practice, and mock tests before qualifying examinations. ÃƒâšÃÂ Tracking for applied, examination attended, interview qualified and placement. ÃƒâšÃÂ Workplace support requirements requests for facilitation. ÃƒâšÃÂ Department of Adult Independent Living DAIL, NIEPMD related other skills training programmes information notifications for getting enrolled, qualified with skills development.


Title: Hot metal, Steel Ladle, and Scrap pot Tracking by autocapturing the Ladle number and locations at SMS1 and SMS2.. Category: Transportation  Logistics. Subcategory: Software. Organization: Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. Description: The ladle is identified by the number painted manually on its outer surface. The ladle number has to be captured. The exact location and number of the ladle has to be tracked in realtime and feedback is to be given to the local server for display. The hot metal Ladle travels from the TLC pit area to the converter for charging liquid hot metal and back. Steel Ladle travels from the Ladle preparation bay with liquid steel to secondary metallurgy units i.e. LF1, LF2, RH, or Twin LF, and then to one of the Caster machines for casting into billets and back. Slag Pot travels from Converter to the Slag dumping area and back. Benefits of solving this issue are tracking of the ladles, timely changes in process based on the ladle history, calculation of ladle circulation times, ladle life, and ladle turnaround times.


Title: A complete Digital Marketing solution for visible increase in online sale of DPDÃƒÂÃâšÂÃâžÂs journals and Employment News issues through various availablenew online sale channels like website, apps , amazon, social media by optimising various available or new digital marketing tools like email marketing, SEO, analytics, etc., subject to suitability, sustainability and costeffectiveness.. Category: Miscellaneous. Subcategory: Software. Organization: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Description: The Directorate of Publications Division DPD is a publication agency of the Government of India that is engaged in publishing books and journals in various languages and for varied sections of people. DPD provides a platform for buyers to purchase books and journals through its sales emporiums and various online platforms. Employment News EN, now a part of DPD, is a journal that provides information on employment opportunities and is published in English, Hindi , and Urdu and is also available online on a subscription basis. The various online platforms present for purchasing DPD booksebooksjournalsejournals are S. No. Name of platform URL 1 Publication Division Website httpswww.publicationsdivision.nic.in 2 Journals Website with archives httpswww.publicationsdivision.nic.injournals 3 Employment News Website Hindi httpwww.employmentnews.gov.in 4 Employment News Website English httpwww.employmentnews.gov.in 5 DPD Android app httpsplay.google.comstoreappsdetailsidcom.iconmaandhlen_INandglUS 6 Employment News Portal under development 7 Amazon 8 Various Social Media Platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram TwitterInstagram DPD_India, Twitter YojanaJournal, Employ_News Facebook httpswww.facebook.compublicationsdivision 5 Despite being present on multiple online platforms the sales figures for the books and journals published by DPD over the years have not shown encouraging growth. While initiatives are being taken from editorial and design teams to improve the books and journals, a need was felt to encourage young students graduates to work on providing complete digital solutions and reworking a complete digital marking strategy for increasing online sales. By making use of various tools for digital marketing, the products of DPD may be available to the buyers seamlessly on various platforms. These may include email marketing, Content marketing, competitor analysis, Search Engine optimization, performance reporting, Social media and website analytics and the like. Details of DM Tools that may be used  The SEO may improve the chances of DPD websites figuring out among the top options for purchasing books in India and abroad related to the content published. Specific books on Gandhiji, PM, President, Rashtrapati Bhawan and even Mirza Galib, Lord Buddha, etc., published by DPD may also be available when users search for such books personalities. Moreover, DPD has a database of user details but presently there is no system of capturing such data for increasing sales and retaining customers. As such email marketing may be employed to retain one time or regular buyers by providing them targeted options for purchase as per their preferences. Alerts for new issues of a preferred journal may also be sent to them. Also, solution to capture new audience may also be worked out using email marketing. Next, DPDEN are present on various social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc. and various tools may be used to best make use of such social media platforms for increase sales and capturing new customersbuyers for which analytics, advertising, content marketing and other tools may be explored. If needed, any new platform that may be required from point of view of improving online sales may also be created. Objective  A push through various digital media tools is targeted at increasing sales of various books and journals of DPD and encouraging bookreading culture in the country for various socioeconomic issues. A range of literature published by DPD is based on preservation on historic and cultural heritage of India and promotion of reading habits in children. Digital media promotion should pay special attention to these aspects. The sales figures for Yojana and Kurukshetra Magazine in EnglishHindi as well as in various regional languages have a huge scope for improving the sales and needs to be given special attention especially since the audience includes civil services aspirants in various parts of the country. Giving a boost to the subscriptions of Employment News is another focus area for which there is a huge scope in smaller cities and towns. Prototypes to be created by the participating teams  The participating teams may create the following subject to subject to suitability, sustainability and costeffectiveness of the DM tools 6 1. A complete DM strategy for a increasing online sale of books and journals b increasing subscriptions of Employment News 2. A prototype for SEO using various keywords aimed at increasing visibility of website and apps, amazon books of DPD 3. At least 45 prototypes for content marketing A prototype for email marketing for a capturing onetime buyers b capturing new audience 4. A model for promoting sales through various social media platforms 5. A model for increasing sales of Yojana and Kurukshetra Magazines using suitable DM tools


Title: Text to Video of various PIB Press Releases using Artificial Intelligence  Machine Learning  Generative Adversarial Networks in English and 13 Regional Languages viz. Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Odia, Bengali, Assamese and Manipuri.. Category: Smart Automation. Subcategory: Software. Organization: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Description: Press Releases of the Press Information Bureau are in the form of text. The attention span of the user is reducing by the year, So to engage with the user in a meaningful way, the Press Releases need to be provided in a video format. Software should be designed in such a format to generate the videos automatically from the Press Releases published. The images and clips used for generating the video should be copyright free. There should be a provision to store a pool of images and clips for generating the video. The generated video should be vetted by the concerned PIB officer before publishing. Software should be designed in such a format to generate the videos automatically from the Press Releases published. The images and clips used for generating the video should be copyrightfree and authentic sources. There should be a provision to store a pool of images and clips for generating the video. The generated video should be vetted by the concerned PIB officer before publishing. The software also includes a provision to send the notification to the concerned PIB officer for approval. After approval, the software should have the feature of autouploading on the concerned social media sites.


Title: 360degree feedback software for the Government of India related News Stories in Regional Media using Artificial Intelligence  Machine Learning. Category: Smart Automation. Subcategory: Software. Organization: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Description: The Press Information Bureau PIB is the nodal agency of the Government of India to disseminate information on government policies, programs, initiatives, and achievements to the print and electronic media. It functions as an interface between the Government and the media and provides feedback to the Government on peopleÃƒÂÃâšÂÃâžÂs reactions as reflected in the media. Information is disseminated from Hqrs through Press Releases in English, Hindi, and Urdu and subsequently translated from PIB Regional offices into other Indian languages like Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Odia, Bengali, Assamese, and Manipuri, to reach out to about 8,400 newspapers and media organizations across the country. To provide effective and timely feedback to the Government, an automated feedback system for all the above regional languages using Artificial Intelligence  Machine Learning is required. The feedback system should crawl the select regional media sites around 200 websites for the news published in regional languages. The software should categorize the stories into the concerned departments as per the tags provided. The stories should be categorized as favorable positive, neutral, or not favorable negative to the Government of India. Negative stories pertaining to a department should be notified to the concerned PIB officer on a realtime basis by SMS or Android notification or by other means. Epapers of select newspapers should be scanned by the system automatically using an Optical Character Recognition OCR. The concerned news clippings if it pertains to the Government of India should be cut and electronically pasted in a predesigned template mentioning the name of the newspaper, the page number where the story was published, the name of the edition, etc. These clippings should be classified into Departments and tonality positive, negative, and neutral. Also in the dashboard, the title of the newspapers should be displayed and the stories should be in a position to be sortedfiltered using the variables like Tonality, Edition, etc. The system should also crawl through the YouTube channels of select news channels and identify the portion of the news bulletin pertaining to the Government of India using closed captioning. If closed captioning is not available, should use audio to text feature to capture the transcript. Once the portion of the video is identified, the said video has to be categorized into Departments and tonality. If the story is negative, the concerned PIB officer should get the notification immediately.


Title: Call for costeffective ways of making water source for piped drinking water supply sustainable in Rural areas. Category: Renewable  Sustainable Energy. Subcategory: Hardware. Organization: Ministry of Jal Shakti. Description: Jal Jeevan Mission was launched with the vision of providing drinking water in adequate quantity of prescribed quality on regular and longterm basis to every rural household. A comprehensive costeffective technology is needed for the assessment of groundwater recharge done by source sustainability technology which is positively affecting the ground waterbased source under consideration and predicting the longevity of the drinking water source to serve at the design discharge in the longterm considering the effect of drawl by the irrigation tube well. The technology should focus on the following a. Monitoring of data for monitoring of drinking water source for a village. Generation of alerts in case of rapid deterioration. b. Innovative costeffective technology for Rain Water Harvesting and Recharge. c. Innovative means to improve source sustainability. d. Reuse of Grey Water Utilize nontoxic wastewater from householdswithwithout basic treatment e. Accurate measurement of the capacity of the Aquifer and the actual water demand. f. Citing correct locations for recharge and discharge of ground water. B. Potential condition of Water Quality.


Title: Developing a system for Patient Care in the Health Sector. Category: Robotics and Drones. Subcategory: Hardware. Organization: Government of Kerala. Description: As the demand for healthcare services continues to increase, healthcare professionals are facing challenges in meeting the needs of patients while maintaining quality care. One of the major challenges is providing 247 care for patients who require continuous monitoring and assistance.The challenge for this hackathon would be to develop innovative and effective solutions for designing and building robots for patient care in the health sector. Participants would need to consider various factors such as safety, reliability, ease of use, and affordability, while also ensuring that the robots are designed to meet the unique needs of patients in different healthcare settings.


Title: Ideate and implement a system to enhance the quality of education in rural areas.. Category: Smart Education. Subcategory: Software. Organization: Government of Kerala. Description: Ideate and implement a system to enhance the quality of education in rural areas. The aim of the system should not only focus on increasing the literacy rate but also should assist to elevate the communication skills and knowledge of the targeted society. The system should offer   Study materials and mentor access.  Monitoring skill progress  Bridge the digital divide  Provide information about grants, loans and incentives.  Offer connectivity to financially disadvantage patrons.  Help individuals with employment opportunities.  Research and development  Access to material resources


Agriculture, FoodTech  Rural Development

Title: AI Assisted Telemedicine KIOSK for Rural India. Category: Agriculture, FoodTech  Rural Development. Subcategory: Software. Organization: Government of Kerala. Description: Health care in rural India is still an unresolved area that demands improved and innovative solutions. The easy availability and access to expert doctors, according to the medical condition of the individualpatient can be provided by the AIassisted telemedicine robotic Kiosk that can be set up anywhere in the village. Individuals may mark their identity through the biometric scanner. A robot may speak to the individual, enquiring about the illness. Later, the individual will be directed online to an expert doctor, via esanjeevani App. After the consultation, medicines and other associated services can be provided to them through the local Asha worker without any delay.


Title: Air and water quality index and environment monitoring. Category: Agriculture, FoodTech  Rural Development. Subcategory: Software. Organization: Government of Kerala. Description: Considering the importance of air and water to human existence, air pollution and water pollution are critical issues that require collective effort for prevention and control. Different types of anthropogenic activities have resulted in environmental dilapidation and ruin. One of the tools that can be used for such a campaign is Air Quality Index AQI. The AQI was based on the concentrations of different pollutants We are also familiar with the Water Quality Index WQI, which in simple terms tells what the quality of drinking water is from a drinking water supply. There is a need for constant and continuous environment monitoring of air quality and water quality for the development of AQI and WQI, which in turn will enable clear communication of how clean or unhealthy the air and water in the study area is.