Mangaluru: The TechKnights Team was one among the few teams to be selected for the final round of Smart India Hackathon 2018 and represented NMAMIT at PSIT, Kanpur where about 27 central government ministries and 18 state governments had come together with 408 problems posted.

In this grand initiative, more than 1,05,234 students from various technical institutions in India, had registered with 17,539 ideas. The 36-hour hackathon ended on March 31 and the team, mentored by K Sri Harsha, CEO of Kritsnam Technologies and Sudhir Gupta, member, Strategic Board Millennium Alliance, COO of DRISHTEE Development and Communication Limited, former COO of Airtel, was declared as the winner.

The team consisted of six students wherein Pradeep B, Sushmitha Rao and Swati Puranik were from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Shwetha Rao, Anup Kamath and Akshay Kumar were from the Department of Information Science and Engineering. The team was honoured with a trophy, a cheque of Rs 1 Lakh and other goodies by Satyapal Singh, Minister of State for HRD and former police commissioner of Mumbai.

The team worked on the problem statement of Dissemination of Information regarding availability of water in reservoirs under the Ministry of Water Resources and Water Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.