New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Singapore Nanyang Technological University (NTU) held its grand finale of the third Singapore-India Hackathon today at IIT Gandhinagar. Union Minister of Education, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan and Lawrence Wong, the deputy prime minister of Singapore felicitated the winners.
The finale had 12 teams of two Indian and two Singaporean students each competing for Rs. 12 lakhs in prize. Announcing the winners, Dharmendra Pradhan tweeted, “Congratulations to all the winners of Singapore-India Hackathon 2023, knowledge is power. Initiatives like SIH are a wonderful way to facilitate knowledge exchanges and unleash the innovation potential of youth of both our countries”.
Earlier on 15 July 2023, on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched AI for India 2.0, a free online Artificial Intelligence (AI) skill training course in Indian languages. In a joint initiative of Skill India and GUVI, this NCVET and IIT Madras accredited online program will equip youth with frontier skills. Curated in nine Indian languages, the program will be enlightened by GUVI, an IIT Madras incubated startup, a tech platform to enable tech learning in vernacular languages.