SIH26024/Smart Automation

Coal mine compliance monitoring platform

A web and mobile platform that lets mine officials and regulators track compliance, inspections, and safety reports in real time.

Ministry of Coal · Coal India Limited · Software

Teams already in: 2/500almost everyone who enters · read 1 hour ago
Buildable in 36 hours: ModerateOur estimate, from their wording
Hard blockers: NoneNothing you must source first
Submissions close: 15 Sept9 days left

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Whether this suits your team

Why this fits you

This organisation declared winners on 3 problem statement(s) in SIH 2025 and on 4 in SIH 2024. It has awarded 8 joint winner(s), so it sometimes splits a prize between two teams.

What you would have to build

Decomposed from what the description asks for. Nothing added.

01
Centralized Web Dashboard
A dashboard for mine officials, corporate management, and regulatory authorities to monitor operations and compliance.
02
Geo-Tagged Mobile App
A mobile application for field inspections, safety observations, and incident reporting with offline support.
03
AI Analytics Engine
An AI component to detect compliance risks, operational anomalies, recurring violations, and generate predictive alerts.
04
Automated Workflow System
A system to handle alerts, reminders, escalations, digital approvals, and statutory report generation.
05
GIS and Document Digitization
Modules for GIS mapping, OCR-based document digitization, and secure digital audit trails.

What they ask for, and what they leave open

Both columns are read off the brief's own wording. Nothing here is inferred from the ministry's name.

They state

The jury will check for offline support on the mobile app, geo-tagged and time-stamped field reporting, AI-driven risk detection, and role-based dashboards for mine officials, corporate management, and regulators.

They never say

specific regulatory guidelines or statutory compliance formats required by coal mines
integration details for existing enterprise systems used by Coal India Limited
languages required for the multilingual conversational interfaces

A jury can still ask about these. Decide them deliberately rather than by accident.

What they'll ask you

Generated from the brief's own wording and the competition's published rules — never from a guess about what this ministry prefers.

Specific regulatory guidelines or statutory compliance formats required by coal mines?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Integration details for existing enterprise systems used by Coal India Limited?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Languages required for the multilingual conversational interfaces?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.

10 more— the ones a panel gets to if there is time

Has any part of this been shown at a previous event, hackathon or college project?
The guidelines are explicit: your solution must not have appeared in any previous event or programme, of any sort. A recycled project is what a team under time pressure reaches for.

The data

What the organisers attached, and what the brief assumes you can get.

Dataset from the organisers: None attached
Does the brief need data?: Nothing in the text says it depends on a dataset we would have to find.

Also from Ministry of Coal

Same organisation, same year. Reading two of theirs tells you more about what they care about than reading one.

Take this to an AI

Pick what you are about to do and copy the prompt. It carries the organisers' own wording, the constraints they never spell out, and an instruction not to invent requirements they never set.

Who has this problem, what already exists, and what you would have to find out.

# Context: India's Smart India Hackathon 2026

I am on a student team entering SIH 2026. Problem statement SIH26024, set by Ministry of Coal.
Its official title, word for word: "AI-Based Smart Governance and Compliance Monitoring System for Coal Mines"
Theme: Smart Automation. Category: software.

In plain terms: A web and mobile platform that lets mine officials and regulators track compliance, inspections, and safety reports in real time.

## The organisers' full description, verbatim

Background: The Indian coal mining sector involves large-scale operations spread across multiple subsidiaries, mine sites, contractors, regulatory bodies, and field offices. Governance-related activities such as statutory compliance monitoring, inspection tracking, safety observations, production reporting, environmental monitoring, worker attendance, contract management, grievance handling, and regulatory reporting are often managed through fragmented systems, manual documentation, spreadsheets, and delayed reporting mechanisms. This leads to challenges such as data inconsistency, delayed decision-making, limited transparency, compliance gaps, duplication of records, weak monitoring of field-level activities, and difficulty in obtaining real-time operational insights. With increasing focus on transparency, accountability, sustainability, and digital governance, there is a need for an integrated smart governance platform specifically designed for the coal mining ecosystem. Defining the Problem: Develop a centralized AI-enabled governance and compliance monitoring platform for coal mining operations that can digitally integrate mine-level activities, statutory compliance, inspections, contractor management, and operational reporting. The proposed solution should: • Digitally track statutory compliance requirements related to safety, environment, production, and labour regulations. • Enable real-time monitoring of inspections, observations, violations, and corrective actions. • Use AI/analytics to identify high-risk areas, recurring compliance failures, and operational anomalies. • Provide geo-tagged and time-stamped field reporting through mobile applications. • Integrate dashboards for mine officials, corporate management, and regulatory authorities. • Generate automated alerts, reminders, compliance reports, and escalation mechanisms. • Minimize manual paperwork and improve transparency, accountability, and decision-making. • Be scalable for deployment across multiple mines and subsidiaries. • Participants may use AI/ML, mobile applications, GIS mapping, OCR/document digitization, workflow automation, blockchain-based audit trails, or multilingual conversational interfaces as part of the solution. The proposed system is expected to: • Improve governance efficiency and transparency in coal mining operations. • Reduce delays and errors in compliance management and reporting. • Enable data-driven monitoring and faster administrative decision-making. • Strengthen accountability and real-time tracking of field activities. • Support digital transformation and paperless governance in the mining sector. • Create a scalable indigenous e-governance framework for Indian coal mines. Expected Solution: The proposed solution should be a centralized AI-enabled smart governance platform for coal mines that integrates compliance monitoring, inspection management, operational reporting, contractor management, and field activity tracking into a single digital ecosystem. The system should provide real-time visibility, automated workflows, and data-driven insights through web and mobile applications to improve transparency, accountability, and decision-making across multiple mining sites and subsidiaries. • Centralized dashboard for mine officials, corporate management, and regulatory authorities with real-time compliance and operational monitoring. • AI/analytics engine to detect compliance risks, operational anomalies, recurring violations, and generate predictive alerts. • Geo-tagged mobile application for field inspections, safety observations, attendance, and incident reporting with offline support. • Automated workflow system for alerts, reminders, escalations, digital approvals, and statutory report generation. • GIS mapping, OCR-based document digitization, and secure digital audit trails for transparent and paperless governance.

## What the brief never says

- specific regulatory guidelines or statutory compliance formats required by coal mines
- integration details for existing enterprise systems used by Coal India Limited
- languages required for the multilingual conversational interfaces
## Constraints that are not negotiable

- The judged build is a prototype demonstrated in roughly 36 hours by students, not a product.
- A jury evaluates it against this problem statement's own wording, not against general merit.
- We submit on sih.gov.in; the problem statement number and title above must match exactly.
- Your solution must not have appeared in any previous event or programme, of any sort.

## What I want from you

1. Who actually has this problem in India, and what they do about it today.
2. What already exists — government systems, open-source projects, published research — that we should not rebuild.
3. For each item under 'what the brief never says', what the realistic answer is likely to be and how I could verify it.
4. The two or three things about this domain that a student team would get wrong without local knowledge.
## How to answer

- Everything above between quotation marks is the organisers' own wording. Treat it as the requirement.
- Do NOT invent requirements the brief does not state. If something matters and is not stated, say so and ask me, rather than assuming.
- Where you are inferring rather than reading, mark it as your inference.
- Do not guess what this ministry wants from its name. Its wording above is the only evidence.

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Problem statement facts assembled by Wynit from Ministry of Coal's published brief for SIH 2026.
The plain-English summary, the list of parts and the evaluator read are our interpretation of that text; the quoted title and the full description are theirs.

The government's original description (468 words)

Background: The Indian coal mining sector involves large-scale operations spread across multiple subsidiaries, mine sites, contractors, regulatory bodies, and field offices. Governance-related activities such as statutory compliance monitoring, inspection tracking, safety observations, production reporting, environmental monitoring, worker attendance, contract management, grievance handling, and regulatory reporting are often managed through fragmented systems, manual documentation, spreadsheets, and delayed reporting mechanisms. This leads to challenges such as data inconsistency, delayed decision-making, limited transparency, compliance gaps, duplication of records, weak monitoring of field-level activities, and difficulty in obtaining real-time operational insights. With increasing focus on transparency, accountability, sustainability, and digital governance, there is a need for an integrated smart governance platform specifically designed for the coal mining ecosystem. Defining the Problem: Develop a centralized AI-enabled governance and compliance monitoring platform for coal mining operations that can digitally integrate mine-level activities, statutory compliance, inspections, contractor management, and operational reporting. The proposed solution should: • Digitally track statutory compliance requirements related to safety, environment, production, and labour regulations. • Enable real-time monitoring of inspections, observations, violations, and corrective actions. • Use AI/analytics to identify high-risk areas, recurring compliance failures, and operational anomalies. • Provide geo-tagged and time-stamped field reporting through mobile applications. • Integrate dashboards for mine officials, corporate management, and regulatory authorities. • Generate automated alerts, reminders, compliance reports, and escalation mechanisms. • Minimize manual paperwork and improve transparency, accountability, and decision-making. • Be scalable for deployment across multiple mines and subsidiaries. • Participants may use AI/ML, mobile applications, GIS mapping, OCR/document digitization, workflow automation, blockchain-based audit trails, or multilingual conversational interfaces as part of the solution. The proposed system is expected to: • Improve governance efficiency and transparency in coal mining operations. • Reduce delays and errors in compliance management and reporting. • Enable data-driven monitoring and faster administrative decision-making. • Strengthen accountability and real-time tracking of field activities. • Support digital transformation and paperless governance in the mining sector. • Create a scalable indigenous e-governance framework for Indian coal mines. Expected Solution: The proposed solution should be a centralized AI-enabled smart governance platform for coal mines that integrates compliance monitoring, inspection management, operational reporting, contractor management, and field activity tracking into a single digital ecosystem. The system should provide real-time visibility, automated workflows, and data-driven insights through web and mobile applications to improve transparency, accountability, and decision-making across multiple mining sites and subsidiaries. • Centralized dashboard for mine officials, corporate management, and regulatory authorities with real-time compliance and operational monitoring. • AI/analytics engine to detect compliance risks, operational anomalies, recurring violations, and generate predictive alerts. • Geo-tagged mobile application for field inspections, safety observations, attendance, and incident reporting with offline support. • Automated workflow system for alerts, reminders, escalations, digital approvals, and statutory report generation. • GIS mapping, OCR-based document digitization, and secure digital audit trails for transparent and paperless governance.