In a significant move to advance tax compliance through innovative solutions, the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has announced the launch of the GST Analytics Hackathon. This initiative aims to harness the power of predictive analytics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system in India.
The GST Analytics Hackathon, which will run for 45 days from the commencement of registration, is open to Indian nationals, including students, researchers, and professionals affiliated with academic institutions or business organisations.
Participants in the hackathon will compete for a substantial prize pool totaling ₹50 lakhs. The top performers will be awarded cash prizes, including ₹25 lakhs for the first prize, ₹12 lakhs for the second prize, and ₹7 lakhs for the third prize. Additionally, consolation prizes worth ₹1 lakh will be distributed, and a special prize of ₹5 lakhs will be awarded to the best-performing all-women team.
Registration and participation details, including access to data sets and competition guidelines, are available on the event’s official website: GST Analytics Hackathon.
Details in details are as follows: –
Indian students or researchers associated with educational institutions, or working professionals associated with Indian startups and companies can participate in the Hackathon. The participant must be a citizen of India. Indian students or researchers associated with educational institutions, or working professionals associated with Indian startups and companies can participate in the Hackathon. The participant must be a citizen of India.
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All participants must register at Jan Parichay. A registered user can directly login at https://event.data.gov.in and submit required details to participate in the Hackathon. It is expected that the participants would submit accurate and up-to-date details and they have to confirm this before submission.
Steps for Login and Registration:
Access challenge Page Here.
Click on ‘Login to Participate’.
Users are redirected to the ‘Jan Parichay’ site. Participant can login using credentials in following ways:
Username – Participants can login with username and password.
Mobile – Participants can login with mobile and password.
Others – Participants can login with email id and password.
After login, the user is redirected to the event site (https://event.data.gov.in) from Janparichay.
New User Login -> Participants who are new to Janparichay, have to register first on Janparichay.
Janparichay account primarily takes mobile number in the registration process.
It is advised that participants update their email id in janparichay account before proceeding to the event site(https://event.data.gov.in). Steps for doing so are mentioned below –
Step 1 – After login on Jan Parichay site. Go to edit profile page – https://janparichay.meripehchaan.gov.in/v1/pehchaan/editprofile.html
Step 2 – In the ‘VERIFICATION DETAILS’, select ‘Primary Email Id’ in the ‘Select Verification Parameters’ dropdown.
Step 3 – Enter email id in the text field and click on ‘Verify’.
Step 4 – Fill in the OTP sent to the mentioned email id and click on ‘Submit’.
Step 5 – Logout from this service and re-login via mobile number or email id to access the same.
Old Janparichay User with no email id in Jan Parichay account -> These participants are advised to update their email id in Jan Parichay account first. Steps for doing so are mentioned above.
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The Hackathon would be organised as an online event with processes for registration of participants, accessing the datasets to be utilised for each problem statement, and submission of developed prototypes. There would be an offline event with the shortlist participants for the finale/second round.
Indian students or researchers associated with educational institutions, or working professionals associated with Indian startups and companies can participate in the Hackathon. The participant must be a citizen of India.
The participants are expected to form teams of up to five members including at least one team lead. A participant may only register as a member of a single team.
The Hackathon would take place over 45 days from the start of registration to the final date for submission of developed prototypes.
Participants would receive a dataset containing 9 lakh records with around 21 attributes each. The data is anonymized and labelled, including trained, validated, and non-validated datasets.
Before submission of a solution prototype, participants have to upload their code in GIT (https://www.github.com) repository and an optional demo/product video on YouTube.
For online submissions, following required/optional fields are to be shared for evaluation:
Idea/Concept
Project Description
Source Code URL (github.com)
Video URL
GitHub Unique Source Code Checksum – Steps to create checksum are mentioned in later steps.
Project Report
The evaluation process of the Hackathon would be overseen by a distinguished panel of jury members comprising experts from the fields of machine learning, data science, and tax administration. The jury would rigorously assess each submission based on predefined criteria to ensure a fair and comprehensive evaluation.
The GST Analytics Hackathon represents a significant opportunity for Indian innovators to contribute to national development while gaining recognition and rewards. This initiative underscores the government’s commitment to leveraging technology for enhanced tax compliance and administration.
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