<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today interact with participants of Grand finale of Smart India Hackathon across various centres. In a tweet, Mr Modi said, that he will join the grand finale of the Smart India Hackathon in the evening. Prime Minister said, he is eagerly looking forward to this opportunity of engaging with pioneering young innovators.&nbsp;</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The second edition of Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018-&nbsp; Software edition will be held simultaneously today and tomorrow at different nodal centers across the country. The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is one of the 22 centres selected to host this edition. The first edition of Hackathon was launched in October last year. It was launched to build Digital India of country's dreams and to engage the youth directly with nation-building.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Hackathon is intended for promoting innovation, out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially engineering students. It aims to harness creativity and expertise of students, build funnel for – Startup India, Standup India campaign, crowd sources solutions for improving governance. It also gives opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India's daunting problems.&nbsp;</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div class="adL" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>