Government launches hackathon for toys

The goal of the “toycathon” is to promote India as a global toy manufacturing hub.
According to Minister for Human Resource Development though the toy market in India is worth $1 billion, 80% toys are imported.
The hackathon is an initiative of the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women and Child Development Ministry of Textile, Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and All India Council for Technical Education.
The Toycathon is based on nine themes viz. Indian Culture, History, Knowledge of India and Ethos; Learning, Education and Schooling; Social and human values; Occupations & specific fields; Environment; Divyang ; Fitness and sport; Out of the box, creative and logical thinking and Rediscovering/redesigning traditional Indian toys
The Toycathon will have 3 variants of tracks of Junior Level, Senior Level and Start up Level and will allow participation of students and teachers from schools, colleges and universities apart from start ups and toy experts.
Participants will have two options for idea submission; they can either submit ideas for the published problem statements or under novel toy concepts category.
This is the high time we utilize brightest creative minds and carve out games based on our Indian culture, tradition and heritage and stories of ancient India show casing the beliefs and traditions of people.

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