Kolkata: Special Guest B Chandra Mohiyar, Director, Department of Justice, Ministry of Law; Chief Guest, Rabi Chowdhury, Managing Director (Generation) of CESC Limited and Sankar Nath Mukhopadhyay, Director CESC Limited, Guest Of Honour, Dr Subhashis Datta, Controller of Examinations, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, Chief Guest, Sankar Ghosh, Managing Director, Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd, Guest of Honour, Abhishek Rungta, Founder & CEO, Indus Net Technologies, Professor Manoshi Roychowdhury, Co-Chairperson, Techno India Group, Prog Dr Samiran Chattopadhyay , Vice Chancellor, Prof Dr Sujoy Biswas , Director & CEO, Prof Dr Rina Paladhi ,Director, Meghdut Roychowdhury, Founder, Make Calcutta Relevant Again and Chief Innovation Officer, Techno India Group and Pauline Laravoire, Co-Founder & CEO, Y-East & Sustainability Director, Techno India Group, added their aura to the event.
The inaugural ceremony was followed by the opening of the West Bengal leg of the competition.
This nationwide initiative, organised by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell, is aimed at providing a dynamic platform for students to tackle real-world challenges faced by government bodies, ministries, indust
ries, and organisations .
The Smart India Hackathon, hailed as the world’s largest open innovation model, cultivates a culture of product innovation and problem-solving among students.
