GovTechThon

On 18th Dec.2021Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Institution’s Innovation Council organized an Orientation session on “GovTechThon” a new initiative of the Tirunelveli Local Administration in the APJ Auditorium from 1.30 to 3.30 p.m to all the students involved in the various Applied Labs. Dr.Anitha, HoD of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science explained all the initiatives taken through the various Applied Labs and the prizes and the awards won by our applied lab students at the National and International level. She highlighted the packages given to the Tirunelveli Local Administration by the FX students.

Ms. Mahalakshmi, Deputy Collector, Tirunelveli spoke on the new initiative taken by the Tirunelveli District Administration to bring administration and citizens closer. Mrs. Suganya Rajkumar, Special DRO and Commissioner of Disciplinary Proceeding Officer, Tirunelveli spoke on the initiatives that should be taken in the engineering college and the need to acquire new skills by the students to enrich their creativity and innovation.

Mr.P. Arumuganainar, Technical Director, NIC, Tirunelveli spoke on the problem statements mentioned in the “GovTechThon” brochure. He highlighted the problem statements “Virtual Assistant Chatbot for Government Schemes”, “Patient Management System for Primary Health Centres”, “Food Adulteration identification through AI/IoT” and “Trafic flow optimization at Vannarpettai, Tirunelveli”. He encouraged the students to find out solutions for the problem statements. Students interacted with the speaker regarding the problem statements and gathered more information about the competition. It was an eye opener event for most of the students.