<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh on Saturday launched Geospatial Hackathon to promote Innovation and Start-Ups in India's Geospatial ecosystem. Speaking on the occasion in New Delhi, Dr. Singh said that the aim of the hackathon is to promote partnerships not only among the public and private geospatial sectors but also to strengthen country's geospatial Start-Up ecosystem. There will be Two Sets of Challenges which are Research Challenge and Startp-Up Challenge to find out four winners for the Best Solutions to the Geospatial Select Problem Statements.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">He added that for achieving the Sustainable development goals, there is an urgency for the country to have reliable geospatial information for effective policy development, programming, and project operation. The Minister added that after unlocking of the Space Sector in 2020 for private participation, the Narendra Modi Government has taken various initiatives to liberalize and democratize the geospatial sector. The Minister emphasized that with the launch of the National geospatial policy, India is walking the path of promoting ease of doing business in the entire geospatial sector and it will catalyze the mission to build India's vibrant and globally competitive Geospatial ecosystem.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology Dr. S Chandrasekhar said that during the challenge, various geospatial datasets related to the problem statements will be made available to all the participants to analyse this data and create insightful data processing, solution, and servicing tools.</span></p>