Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the students participating in Smart India Hackathon 2017 through video conferencing today. The Smart India Hackathon is intended for promoting innovation, out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially engineering students. It is focused on the problems of social importance as identified by 29 Ministries and departments. <br/><br/>Human Resource Development Ministry has said, more than 10 thousand programmers will participate in the World's Largest Hackathon. Hackathon has been launched to build Digital India of country's dreams and to engage the youth directly with nation building. The Ministry said, Smart India Hackathon gave an opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India's problems.