Overview
- The grand finale is being held on the IIT Kharagpur campus from December 8 to 12 during the institute’s Platinum Jubilee year.
- Organised by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and AICTE since 2017, SIH is billed as the world’s largest open innovation platform for higher‑education students.
- SIH 2025 logged 72,165 idea submissions from 68,766 student teams across 271 problem statements, with 2,587 institutions running internal hackathons involving 8,26,635 students.
- IIT Kharagpur officials and SIH convenors urged participants to push creative and engineering boundaries at the opening sessions.
- The institute said the Prime Minister would inaugurate the finale virtually, while national proceedings featured a virtual launch by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and a separate address by the Prime Minister.