Ministry of Railways
Browse and strategize across all 3 official problem statements submitted by Ministry of Railways for Smart India Hackathon 2026.
Problem Statements (3)
Match My TeamDevelopment of Mobile (Quadruped)/Handheld Device/System for Real-Time Detection of Narcotics and Explosives across Indian Railways.
Drug trafficking and explosive threats across Indian Railways platforms, train coaches, and ballast tracks require rapid non-intrusive screening in GPS-denied, crowded environments. Build an AI-enabled autonomous quadruped robot and handheld inspection system equipped with thermal/optical cameras, LiDAR SLAM, and chemical spectrometry/sensor payloads to detect narcotics (heroin, cocaine, meth) and high explosives (RDX, TNT, IEDs).
Al-Powered Automatic Block Planning to Maximize Asset Availability for Train Operations on Indian Railways
Indian Railways Engineering, Traction (OHE), and Signalling departments plan track maintenance blocks in decentralized silos (TMS, SMMS, TDMS), causing severe train delays and under-utilized track downtime. Build an AI-powered automated block planning and multi-department scheduling optimizer that synchronizes joint maintenance windows, models train traffic congestion, and maximizes track availability.
Dynamic Forecast of Expected Time of Arrival (ETA) for Coaching Trains
Indian Railways National Train Enquiry System (NTES) uses static historical section running times to forecast train Arrival Times (ETA), leading to inaccurate passenger updates during unexpected yard congestion and weather delays. Build a real-time dynamic ETA forecasting engine combining GPS locomotive telemetry, section signaling occupancy, line capacity bottleneck models, and weather feeds to predict station arrival times with minute-level precision.