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The KKR & KSR Institute of Technology and Sciences (KITS) hosted the 8th variation of the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2025–Software expansive finale at Vinjanampadu village of Vatticherukuru mandal successful Guntur district, connected Monday.
The 36-hour event, held simultaneously astatine nodal centres across the state connected December 8 and 9, is showcasing 1,360 teams of young innovators addressing real-world problems.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan virtually inaugurated SIH 2025 nationally, describing it arsenic a level shaping India’s aboriginal and acknowledging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relation successful conceptualising the initiative. The Prime Minister, successful his virtual address, lauded pupil innovations from past editions and expressed assurance that this year’s ideas would fortify India’s enactment successful technology.
The event is organised by AICTE, the Ministry of Education and the Institute Innovation Council, with KITS hosting teams from crossed India. JNTU-K Vice-Chancellor C.S.R.K. Prasad led the inaugural ceremonial astatine KITS, stressing that exertion should alteration lives and span the industry-academia gap. KITS Chairman K. Subba Rao said hosting 150 pupil innovators was a substance of pridefulness and assured due arrangements.
Principal P. Babu said that the Indian Knowledge System Department assigned 5 thematic challenges to the KITS centre, including Kolam plan logic, a cosmopolitan transliteration tool, indigenous astronomical instruments, motion recognition successful classical dance, and Chandas (poetic meter) classification, which reflect heritage-tech integration. Jury members measure teams, portion mentors enactment them with method guidance.
