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Odisha Chief Minister felicitated the hackathon winners and gave away cash awards

Bhubaneswar16/11/18:: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated the hackathon winners and gave away cash awards at the secretariat here on Thursday.

The 36-hour Hackathon was organised in the College of Engineering & Technology (CET) with the collaboration of Department of Skill Development & Technical Education and Biju Patnaik University of Technology.

hief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik with 23 teams of Make in Odisha Hackathon at Secretariat. @Naveen_Odisha @skilled_odisha @SDTE_Odisha

Around 4038 students from various colleges and universities across the country participated in this event. A total of 84 teams participated from 12 states. While 45 teams were from Odisha, 35 were from other states.

In each category, Rs 1 lakh, Rs 80,000 and Rs 70,000 have been awarded as the first, second and third prize respectively. Moreover, from each of the eight sectors, the best group from Odisha and outside received a special prize of Rs 75,000 separately.

To encourage women participation in this event, there was an additional 25 percent added to the prize money.

In all India level in agriculture Skividee 10, in housing Blitzkrieg and in healthcare sector Sundaram 27b2-Geohealth respectively got first, second and third prize.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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