Background

Land records form the backbone of land administration, property ownership, taxation, land acquisition, dispute resolution, and infrastructure planning. Across India, a significant portion of historical land records continues to exist in the form of handwritten registers, scanned documents, maps, cadastral records, and legacy PDF files maintained at various administrative levels. An intelligent digitization system can significantly improve data quality while accelerating the modernization of India's land administration ecosystem.

Description of the Study

Develop an AI-powered Intelligent Land Record Digitization and Validation System capable of automatically extracting structured information from scanned land records, handwritten documents, maps, and legacy PDF files. The proposed solution should utilize advanced OCR, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing techniques to recognize printed as well as handwritten text in multiple Indian languages. The extracted information should be intelligently classified into predefined fields such as landowner details, survey number, khasra number, khata number, plot area, village, tehsil, district, land classification, ownership details, mutation records, and registration information. The platform should provide a user-friendly interface for document upload, automated processing, manual verification where required, audit tracking, and seamless integration with existing Land Records Management Systems (LRMS), Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), GIS platforms, and other government databases.

Scope of Study

Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Machine Learning (ML) provide an opportunity to automate the extraction, digitization, and validation of legacy land records with greater speed and accuracy. Problems Records often suffer from issues such as poor image quality, inconsistent formats, faded text, damaged pages, multiple regional languages, and handwritten annotations, making manual digitization a time-consuming and error-prone process. The lack of standardized and accurate digital land records creates challenges in maintaining reliable databases, verifying ownership, integrating records with modern land information systems, and delivering citizen-centric services. Manual data entry not only increases operational costs but also introduces inconsistencies that affect decision-making and governance.

Expected Solution

The proposed solution should be an intelligent AI-based platform capable of automating the digitization and validation of legacy land records while minimizing manual intervention and ensuring high data accuracy. The system should provide

Expected Solution

Create a digital marketplace that: Connects farmers/FPOs directly with consumers and bulk buyers. Provides logistics support. Uses AI for demand forecasting and route optimization. Benefits Better prices for farmers. Lower prices for consumers. Reduced supply chain inefficiencies.

Background

Victims of atrocities frequently experience prolonged psychological distress after complaint registration due to threats, intimidation, repeated court appearances, delays in investigation and trial, social ostracism, economic hardship, and rehabilitation challenges.Existing mechanisms focus primarily on legal and financial support and do not provide continuous monitoring of victim well-being.

Problem Statement

Develop an AI-based Dynamic Mental Health Monitoring and Distress Prediction System that continuously monitors and predicts psychological distress among victims and complainants registered through NHAA (14566), the Integrated Portal, chatbot, mobile application, IVRS, or other approved communication channels throughout the investigation,trial, rehabilitation, and compensation process.

Expected Solution

The system should Conduct periodic interactions with victims through chatbot, IVRS calls, SMS, mobile applications, web portal, or helpline follow-up mechanisms.

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Description

Healthcare facilities generate large volumes of biomedical waste that require safe, compliant, and efficient handling.

Manual collection and segregation increase the risk of contamination, operational inefficiencies, and regulatory challenges.

Design and develop an AI-powered, battery-electric autonomous mobile system that automates the collection, identification, segregation, and digital tracking of biomedical waste across hospitals.

The solution should leverage AI-enabled vision systems to classify waste, intelligently segregate it into designated compartments, and provide end-to-end traceability while minimizing human exposure to hazardous materials and improving safety, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

Using Autodesk Fusion, students must demonstrate a complete product development lifecycle—from concept ideation to manufacturing-ready product, delivering an innovative, scalable, and solution for next-generation healthcare waste management.

Participation Guidelines For Idea Submission Each student team will submit a PowerPoint presentation (5-7 Slides) with conceptual sketches, research, and relevant images.

NO design files are required at this stage.

The actual design must be created ONLY during the Grand Finale.

Designs should be created using ONLY Autodesk Fusion and not copied or taken from any other source.

AI Generated content is NOT ALLOWED.

For Grand Finale Students must use Autodesk Fusion within the given time period and present: PPT explaining the final project Public link of the fully developed Autodesk Fusion design model Use of Generative Design for optimization will be an added advantage.

Simulation and Analysis will be advantageous Motion study and exploded assembly view Hi-res rendered images Design should be capable of developing a prototype with a focus on Cost, Manufacturability, Scalability, and Quality.

Note Teams coming with pre-designed files will be disqualified.

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Problem Description

Rural and underserved communities may face long travel distances,shortages of specialists, irregular diagnostics, fragmented medical records, delayed referrals and limited awareness of available services. Primary health facilities may have constrained staff and equipment, while patients may move between sub-centres, primary health centres, rural hospitals and district hospitals without continuity of information. Connectivity, language,health literacy and affordability further affect access. The challenge is to improve timely access, continuity, quality and accountability while strengthening—not replacing—the public-health system.

Expected Solution

Outcome An integrated care-access and quality support solution that may combine assisted teleconsultation, appointment and queue management, digital triage,longitudinal patient records, referral tracking, diagnostic coordination,medicine availability, high-risk patient follow-up and facility dashboards. It should support frontline health workers, low-connectivity environments,multilingual interaction, emergency escalation and interoperable health records based on approved standards.Expected outcomes include reduced travel and waiting time, earlier consultation, improved referral completion, better follow-up for maternal, child and chronic conditions,improved medicine/diagnostic availability visibility and enhanced quality monitoring.

Background

Early and accurate detection of diseases significantly improves treatment outcomes and reduces healthcare costs. Classical machine learning models have achieved notable success in medical diagnosis; however, they often face limitations when dealing with high-dimensional, noisy, and complex biomedical data (e.g., genomics, medical imaging, and electronic health records). Quantum machine learning (QML) offers the potential to capture intricate patterns through quantum superposition and entanglement. Due to current hardware constraints, a hybrid quantum-classical approach provides a practical pathway to leverage quantum advantages while remaining executable on existing quantum simulators and near-term quantum devices.

Description

This problem focuses on designing and developing a hybrid quantum machine learning platform for early disease detection. The platform will integrate classical pre-processing and feature engineering with quantum-enhanced learning models (such as quantum support vector machines, quantum neural networks, or variational quantum classifiers). It will be applied to biomedical datasets for the early identification of diseases (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disorders, or neurological conditions). The system should support data ingestion, hybrid model training, prediction, explainability, and performance evaluation against purely classical baselines.

Objectives

Design a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning architecture suitable for early disease detection. Develop quantum-enhanced classification/regression models that can process high-dimensional biomedical data. Improve detection accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity compared with classical machine learning baselines. Ensure the platform is scalable, interpretable, and compatible with near-term quantum hardware and simulators. Incorporate data pre-processing, feature selection, and model explainability modules. Benchmark the hybrid approach against classical models in terms of accuracy,computational efficiency, and generalization performance.

Expected Solution

A fully functional hybrid quantum machine learning software platform capable of performing early disease detection on real or benchmark biomedical datasets. The solution must include data handling pipelines, hybrid quantum-classical model implementation, training and inference workflows, performance evaluation, explainability features, and comprehensive documentation.

Background

Personnel serving in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), Armed Forces, and other uniformed services operate under physically demanding, psychologically stressful, and often hazardous conditions. Extended deployments, operational pressures, separation from families, irregular working hours, and exposure to traumatic incidents can significantly impact mental well-being. Currently, stress identification largely depends on manual observation and self-reporting, which may delay timely intervention. There is a need for a proactive, technology-driven solution that can identify early indicators of stress, burnout, and psychological distress while maintaining privacy and organizational trust.

Description

The proposed solution aims to develop an AI-powered Personnel Stress and Welfare Monitoring System capable of identifying potential indicators of stress, burnout, emotional fatigue, and welfare concerns through analysis of organizational and voluntarily provided wellness data. The system should:

The system must be designed with strong privacy safeguards and focus on welfare support rather than disciplinary actions.

Expected Solution

Develop an AI-driven predictive analytics platform comprising:

The solution should identify trends and risk factors while ensuring that individual dignity, confidentiality, and data protection requirements are maintained.

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Expected Impact

The proposed AI-enabled Personnel Stress and Welfare Monitoring System will help transform welfare management from a reactive process to a proactive and preventive framework. By enabling early identification of stress indicators and facilitating timely interventions, the solution can improve personnel well-being, enhance operational effectiveness, and strengthen the long-term resilience of uniformed services while maintaining the highest standards of privacy, ethics, and data security.

Cutting-edge technology in these sectors continues to be in demand. Recent shifts in healthcare trends, growing populations also present an array of opportunities for innovation.

There is a need to design drones and robots that can solve some of the pressing challenges of India such as handling medical emergencies, search and rescue operations, etc.