SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Aug 27: The six-member team of IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad, emerged as the winner at the grand finale of the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) which concluded at Chandigarh University on August 26 evening.
IIT (ISM) team comprising Ashutosh Singh (Mechanical Engineering), Subham Kumar Kurrey (Electronics and Communication Engineering), Abhishek Gaurav (Environmental Engineering), Kundan Kumar Kushwaha (Mining Engineering), Mejar Kumar (Electrical Engineering) and Rajvi (Mathematics and Computing) redesigned the Website of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and got the first prize of Rs 1 lakh.
Chandigarh University was one of the 57 nodal innovation centres in the country for the Smart India Hackathon competition in which 23 teams of engineering colleges including IIT ISM Dhanbad participated.
IIT ISM students’ team upgraded the Website besides solving the other six problems given in the competition.
Prof Rajni Singh, dean (media and branding) of IIT ISM giving this information on Saturday afternoon said that besides redesigning the AICTE Website, the IIT ISM team (all B.Tech 3rd year students) added 10 new special features to the website like virtual on-screen keyboard, referral system for course selling and buying, text to speech converter, multi-lingual support with geolocation, Chatbot, searching features, reduction of loading time, visual for colour blinds, security features, notification and recommendation systems in their 36 hours brainstorming session.
Aman Harsh, a B Tech final year, Mathematics and Computing student and Amarsh Jain final year Mining Engineering student of IIT (ISM) who accompanied the team as mentors said that the IIT ISM team went through all pages of the old website of AICTE and detected several lacunae which can be improved up to increase the user interaction.
Harsh said the virtual onscreen keyboard added by us will help to write anything into the input field without the original keyboard while the speech-to-text converter will help when the user is not able to read the details.
Regarding the Chatbot added to the website, Harsh said that it will respond to the user queries related to AICTE schemes and policies while the addition of searching buttons will allow the user to write and speak to search anything on the website.
“Due to the diversity of language in our country,t is not possible for every user to read the information available on the website in English so we have added Multi-Lingual support with Geo Location as per which the website language will get changed as per the IP address of the user,” elaborated Harsh.
The team which will arrive tomorrow Dhanbad gave credit for their achievement to the leadership of director Prof Rajiv Shekhar for providing quality education in the institution.
