Chhattisgarh

• 16 Jun 2022

Hackathon Competition Started at Police Headquarters Nava Raipur

Why in News?

• On June 15, 2022, a hackathon competition named Hack-Manthan was inaugurated in the chief hospitality of Chhattisgarh Director General of Police Ashok Juneja.

Key Points

• It may be recalled that in order to find a solution to the technical problems of the police, a hackathon competition called 'Hack-Manthan' is being organized by the Chhattisgarh Police in collaboration with the International Institute of Information Technology (Triple IT) Nava Raipur from May 27, 2022 .
• Additional Superintendent of Police (Technical Services) Kavi Gupta said that the month-long competition will include 460 teams from technical institutes associated with IT from across the country, such as IITs, NITs, Triple IT, etc.
• On the basis of the accepted applications, in the first phase, efforts will be made by the participants to find a solution to the problem statements issued for hackathons from 13th June to 20th June through coding.
• A total of 12 teams will be shortlisted for the final round after the first round of competition. The final phase will be held on June 29, 2022 at Hotel Marriott, Raipur, wherein solution presentations prepared (by themselves) by the selected teams will be given.
• On the basis of these presentations, the first, second and third winners will be announced, who will be awarded cash prizes of Rs 80,000, Rs 40,000, and Rs 20,000 respectively.
• Pradeep Gupta, Head of Technical Services and Additional Director General of Police, said that in order to make the hackathon relevant and interesting, technical problems faced in real life policing have been included in this competition in the form of problem statements, which include - Cryptocurrency based Solutions for tracking of transactions, policing upgradation of feeds received from CC TV cameras, filtering of emergency calls received in dial 112 and speech emotion recognition, sentiment analysis of social media posts and crime data analysis.
• Assistant Inspector General of Police (Technical Services) Manish Sharma said that applications from more than 1200 participants have been received from all over the country in this national level competition, which shows the success of this competition. In this competition, the corporate world is also making joint efforts with the police.
• Pradeep Sinha, Director, Triple IT, said in a statement that this is the first event of its kind by the police department and triple IT and there is a need to organize such a competition in the future as well.