Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding Smart India Hackathon 2017 ?
- 1.It is a centrally sponsored scheme for developing every city of our country into Smart Cities in a decade.
- 2.It is an initiative to identify new digital technology innovations for solving the many problems faced by our country.
- 3.It is a programme aimed at making all the financial transactions in our country completely digital in a decade.
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Answer: B. Statement 1 is wrong: Smart Cities Mission is a separate scheme of the Ministry of Urban Development (now Housing and Urban Affairs). Statement 2 is correct: Smart India Hackathon 2017, run by the HRD Ministry and AICTE, asked students to build digital solutions to problems set by ministries. Statement 3 is wrong: it is not a programme to make all transactions digital. So 2 only.
Watch for: Watch for the word 'Smart'; it is not the Smart Cities Mission.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because statements 1 and 3 describe other schemes.
- C. Wrong because the hackathon is not a digital payments programme.
- D. Wrong because statement 3 is false.
Source to check: Smart India Hackathon official site (sih.gov.in); PIB release by Ministry of Human Resource Development, April 2017
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