MRU emerge as the winner in the Software category of Smart India Hackathon 2020

Faridabad Hindustan ab tak/Dinesh Bhardwaj : 10 August Team Error=404 of B Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, is the proud winner of SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2020 under Software Category. They represented MRU on problem statement of Ministry of Rural Development ‘MK206’ (Non-network-intensive record-keeping system for Self Help Group) virtually in online mode at Chandigarh University Nodal Centre, during the Grand Finale of Fourth Software edition (Online platform) of Smart India Hackathon- 2020, held on 1st to 3rd August 2020. Team Error=404 won the prize money INR 1,00,000.
SIH is the world’s biggest Open Innovation Model organized at various nodal centers across India simultaneously by the Ministry of HRD and with assistance and observation of AICTE, AWS, Intel, Cisco, i4c and Persistent. It’s a 36 hours continuous programming competition and an initiative to provide students with a common platform to solve some pressing problems stated by various Indian Ministry departments and top industries of the nation. This year, the SIH-2020 event had 50 lakh+ student applicants from 6000+ institutions including IISc, IITs, NITs and other AICTE/UGC approved nationwide institutions, who competed creatively to solve problems and offer technical solutions.
Manav Rachna University congratulates the Team Error=404 comprising of B.Tech CSE 7th Sem students – Rishabh Dhiman, Mrinmoy Mitra, Aayush Singh, Deepak Bhardwaj, Vishakha Tyagi, and Aman Gupta, along with their mentors Prof Anu Priya Sharma and Prof Ankur Kumar Aggarwal.