Smart India Hackathon (SIH 2022) is a nationwide initiative of AICTE, MoE, Govt. of India, to enable students to solve some of the problems for which industries need solutions and thus inculcate a culture of product innovations and a mindset of problem-solving.
In SIH 2022, the students would have the opportunity to work on challenges faced within various Ministries, Departments, Industries, PSUs and NGOs to create world-class solutions for some of the top organizations including industries in the world, thus helping the Private sector hire the best minds from across the nation.

Internal Hackathon is a pre-requisites to select the top 11 teams for the Main SIH and was conducted by USCI at Karnavati University on 23rd March 2022, with a welcome address by the Dean of USCI and SPOC-SIH 2022, Dr Raju Shanmugam.
The Chief Guest, Dr Indranil Bandhopadhyay, Head-CSKM and Senior Scientist from Institute of Plasma Research, Ahmedabad, Gujarat inaugurated the functions with a Lamp Lighting ceremony and Saraswati Vandana followed by his Keynote.
University Registrar, Shri. Tariq Ali Sayed, Shri. Jaideep Banerjee, Director-Outreach, ERP & Head-CRC, Deans and Directors from Schools, delegates, faculty and staff members along with 150 students were also present during the inaugural ceremony. Dr Avadhesh Kumar Gupta, Coordinator –SIH extended the vote of thanks for the inaugural ceremony.