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24 hour hackathon begins at Rajasthan Digifest to develop tech based solutions for citizen-centric problems

The platform gives an opportunity to various individuals from the field of IT and e-governance to showcase their skills and innovation. To ease the day-to-day life of people, students and coders will develop tech solutions in just 24 hours for the Rajasthan governments flagship schemes in the third edition of hackathon in Kota. It is aimed at identifying individuals or teams who can develop tech solutions and help the state government in solving citizen-centric problems, Akhil Arora, principal secretary at the Department of Information Technology and Communication said. The two-day event, Digifest 2017, was inaugurated today with the theme Hackathon 3.0 where over 1,500 IT experts, coders and students will be displaying their innovations. The top three winners will also earn a contract with the state governments Department of Information Technology and Communication worth Rs 15 lakh, Rs 10 lakh and Rs 7.5 lakh.

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