A web platform that helps government departments discover, pilot, and buy innovative solutions from startups through structured challenges and standard templates.
Government Of Maharashtra · Maharashtra State Innovation Society, Department of Skills, Employment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation · Software
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Challenge and Discovery Portal
A module for government departments to post outcome-based problem statements and discover suitable startups.
Screening and Evaluation
An interface for screening startup eligibility and managing expert evaluations without traditional turnover hurdles.
Pilot and Sandbox Design
A workflow tool to set up controlled pilots, milestone-based contracts, and performance measurement.
Standard Legal Templates
A repository of standard templates for pilot agreements, data clauses, intellectual property, and cybersecurity.
Scale-up and Procurement Pathway
A tracking dashboard for managing independent validation, timely payments, and transition into full procurement.
Both columns are read off the brief's own wording. Nothing here is inferred from the ministry's name.
The evaluators will check if your platform covers the entire end-to-end lifecycle from challenge identification to scale-up decisions, and whether it includes all the requested standard legal and operational templates.
A jury can still ask about these. Decide them deliberately rather than by accident.
Generated from the brief's own wording and the competition's published rules, never from a guess about what this ministry prefers.
Which specific government e-marketplaces or startup databases need to be integrated?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
The exact legal compliance rules or procurement laws of Maharashtra that must be adhered to?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
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 brief asks for challenge and discovery portal. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26136 itself: A module for government departments to post outcome-based problem statements and discover suitable startups. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for screening and evaluation. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26136 itself: An interface for screening startup eligibility and managing expert evaluations without traditional turnover hurdles. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for pilot and sandbox design. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26136 itself: A workflow tool to set up controlled pilots, milestone-based contracts, and performance measurement. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for standard legal templates. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26136 itself: A repository of standard templates for pilot agreements, data clauses, intellectual property, and cybersecurity. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for scale-up and procurement pathway. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26136 itself: A tracking dashboard for managing independent validation, timely payments, and transition into full procurement. The brief asks for it by name.
Where does your data come from: a published source, one you collect, or one you generate?
No dataset is attached to this problem statement, so sourcing it is part of the work and nobody told you that.
Why not use what already exists? Name the closest thing to this that is already running.
A team that has not named the alternative themselves is answering this for the first time in the room.
Which single thing will you demonstrate end to end, start to finish, with nothing skipped?
Ours, not a rule: a narrow thing that fully works survives questioning better than a broad thing that half works. If nobody on the team can name it, that is the finding.
Show me this working: the evaluators will check if your platform covers the entire end-to-end lifecycle from challenge identification to scale-up decisions, and whether it includes all the requested standard legal and operational templates.
This is the evaluator read for your problem statement, decoded from the brief's own wording.
Each one is quoted from a gap in the brief, not a guess about your team.
No measurable target
The description lists expected outcomes like faster discovery and higher quality pilots, but provides no quantitative targets for success.
What the organisers attached, and what the brief assumes you can get.
Same organisation, same year. Reading two of theirs tells you more about what they care about than reading one.