What is Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2026?

Smart India Hackathon (SIH) is the world’s biggest open innovation hackathon organized by the Ministry of Education, AICTE, and MIC, where student teams build hardware and software solutions for problem statements submitted by Government Ministries, Departments, and State Agencies.

How many problem statements are released in SIH 2026?

SIH 2026 features 226 official problem statements, comprising 172 Software category statements and 54 Hardware category statements across themes like Smart Automation, Agriculture, Disaster Management, MedTech, Clean Water, and Cybersecurity.

How does the SIH ONE AI Team Matchmaker work?

The SIH ONE Matchmaker takes your 6-member team’s frontend/backend/AI skills, hardware experience, domain preferences, and exclusions, then runs a multi-factor weighted scoring algorithm to rank the top 25 highest-fit problem statements.

How does the system filter out spam and prioritize genuine life-threatening emergencies during a massive flood?

We use a fine-tuned Crisis-BERT model that extracts structured entities (medical condition, water depth, trapped individuals) and scores clinical urgency, automatically elevating requests involving pregnant women, infants, and medical emergencies to the top of the NDRF dispatch queue.

How does the rescue routing engine navigate through flooded city streets safely?

It combines real-time hydrodynamic flood depth rasters with the city road network, establishing minimum water depth clearance thresholds for rescue boats while avoiding impassable submerged electrical transformers and high-velocity current channels.

How does the platform assist relief camp managers in preventing disease outbreaks?

The shelter module tracks occupant counts, water potability metrics, and sanitary supplies, applying epidemiological outbreak risk models to alert medical officers 48 hours before cholera or waterborne disease risk thresholds are breached.

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PS 26206SOFTWAREDisaster ManagementFast Prototype (36h)

Student Innovation

AICTE• AICTE, MIC-Student Innovation

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30-Second Plain English Summary

AICTE Open Innovation: Disaster Management (Software) — Disaster response agencies in India during cyclones, floods, and earthquakes struggle with fragmented communication, delayed situational awareness, and chaotic resource distribution (food, boats, medical supplies) across affected districts. Build an AI-Powered Unified Disaster Situational Awareness, Crowdsourced SOS Triage, and Emergency Resource Logistics Platform for disaster management authorities (NDMA/SDRF) that aggregates satellite inundation rasters, social media distress pings, and optimizes rescue boat/vehicle routing.

5-Dimension Strategic ScorecardOverall Score: 3.6 / 5.0

Innovation

3.5 / 5

36h Feasibility

4.3 / 5

Uniqueness

3.4 / 5

Jury Appeal

3.7 / 5

Tech Depth

3.2 / 5

Recommended System Architecture Pipeline

Citizen WhatsApp / SMS SOS Feeds + Sentinel-1 Flood Rasters -> NLP Distress Urgency Classifier -> Rescue Vehicle Routing Optimizer (VRP) -> PostGIS -> State EOC Disaster War Room

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Official Government Problem Description

Disaster management includes ideas related to risk mitigation, Planning and management before, after or during a disaster.

AI & PPT Citation Format

Smart India Hackathon 2026 Problem Statement PS-26206: "Student Innovation", Ministry: AICTE. Strategy & Architecture via SIH ONE (https://sihone.pages.dev/ps/26206)

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