UPSC Prelims 2017 · Question 85 of 99

UPSC Prelims 2017 question on Smart India Hackathon

Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding Smart India Hackathon 2017?

1. It is a centrally sponsored scheme for developing every city of our country into Smart Cities in a decade.

2. It is an initiative to identify new digital technology innovations for solving the many problems faced by our country.

3. It is a programme aimed at making all the financial transactions in our country completely digital in a decade.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. 1 and 3 only
  2. 2 only
  3. 3 only
  4. 2 and 3 only
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Answer: B. 2 only

Verdict

The answer is 2 only. Smart India Hackathon 2017 was an initiative to identify digital technology innovations for national problems.

Analysis

Statement 2 is CORRECT. The Hackathon was a thirty six hour non stop digital product development competition in which teams of technology students built solutions to problems posted by twenty nine central government ministries and departments, including Railways, External Affairs, Defence, ISRO, Tourism and Atomic Energy. Statement 1 is INCORRECT, since developing cities is the Smart Cities Mission, an entirely separate programme. Statement 3 is INCORRECT, since digitising all financial transactions describes the digital payments push rather than this competition.

Source

Press Information Bureau release on the Smart India Hackathon.

How to crack it

The word Hackathon fixes the answer by itself, since it denotes a time bound software building competition and cannot describe an urban infrastructure mission or a payments programme. Watch for the shared word Smart, which links this to the Smart Cities Mission and is the entire basis of the first distractor. Where two unrelated initiatives share a fashionable adjective, expect UPSC to swap their objectives.

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