Six teams emerge winners at national-level coding contest
The HinduInnovative ideas from the youth will provide solutions to the new-generation problems in the country, said Kurnool Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal. To put the problem-solving capability to test at a national level, Coding Smart India Hackathon was conducted at five locations in the country, including G. Pullaiah Engineering College here. Twenty-two teams solved the real-time problem statements given by different departments of the Central Government and the successful coders were given a prize money of Rs.1 lakh. In the 36-hour event that concluded on Friday night, a team from Alwar in Rajasthan, The Society Trans Workers, Team Pragathi from Bengaluru, Witchcraft from Gujarat and Siberian Coders from Pune bagged the Rs.1 lakh prize, while there was a tie between two teams, Microincivinity from Chennai and Sociolab from Pune, who shared the Rs.1 lakh prize money.