Call for Applications: Bhashini LEAP Hackathon (India)

It is organized by Bhashini & Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD) in partnership with Police Academy & NCRB, this hackathon seeks AI-driven solutions for multilingual communication, transcription, and digital policing.

Stages & Rewards

• Screening Stage
  • The intent of this stage is to invite bright minds to collaborate and participate to propose innovative and cutting-edge ideas for their solution using BHASHINI APIs for AI based translations models. The ideas submitted across problem statements will be evaluated and will be selected by a Selection Committee composed of experts from academia, industry, and government. Each selected team will get a chance to migrate to stage 2 to present the basic prototype.
• Prototype Stage
  • Critical stage to build and enhance prototype features.
    • Presentation: Teams present prototypes to a distinguished Jury to select the top five entries per problem statement.
    • Reward: Each selected team receives INR 50,000 to build their solution following design principles and best practices.
    • Support: Mentors may be assigned to help develop the best solution as per DIBD’s needs.
• Product Building
  • Opportunity: Shortlisted teams from Stage-2 can deploy a fully functioning product at DIBD and present it to the Grand Jury.
  • Evaluation: Solutions will be judged on Innovation, Replicability, Scalability, Usability, Ease of deployment, and Potential risks.
  • Awards: One winning team per problem statement receives INR 10 lakhs; two runners-up per problem statement receive INR 1 lakh each.
  • Contract: Winning teams get a 4-year contract to deploy their solution for Government use and an additional INR 10 lakhs for Innovation, operations, and maintenance. Marketing: All teams can market their product outside Union/State/UT Government Organizations by hosting it in a non-government environment.

Problem Statements

• AI-Powered Multilingual Assistance Tool for Police Services
• Developing an Integrated Transcription and Documentation Platform for Law Enforcement

Eligibility Criteria

• Participating teams must be an Indian company registered under Companies Act or comply with the definition of start-up as per the latest notification of DIPP
• If participating team is not yet registered, they are still allowed to participate, but are required to get registered if they get selected for the final submission.

For more information, visit Bhashini.