Overview
- The Smart India Hackathon 2025 hardware grand finale is in progress from December 8–12 at IIT Kharagpur, aligning with the institute’s Platinum Jubilee.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed finalists via video message, and Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar interacted live with teams at the Kharagpur venue.
- The software edition’s 36-hour finals wrapped up across dozens of nodal centres, with winners announced at MRIIRS in Faridabad and at VTU in Belagavi.
- Organisers cite record scale with 72,165 idea submissions, 68,766 teams and 271 problem statements, and 1,360 finalist teams representing 8,160 students from 727 institutes.
- Problem statements were sourced from ministries, PSUs and industry partners, spanning domains such as agriculture, digital governance and heritage-tech.