1. VIMARSH 2023: BPR&D has been nominated Centre of Excellence for the purpose of 5G applications use cases within MHA. Accordingly, BPR&D has been entrusted with the prestigious responsibility of conducting a Hackathon on 5G technology use for addressing the challenges and issues being faced by LEAs.

Cybercrime and cyber security issues have become an ever growing phenomenon with the introduction of 5G technology, newer challenges of cyber security and cybercrimes are emanating. Hackathons offer great opportunities for the stakeholders as well as bright students, startups, MSMEs to come together and develop innovative solutions.

Vimarsh 2023 is jointly conducted by Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), Department of Telecom (DoT) and Telecom Centre of Excellence (TCOE) to find the indigenous solutions for some of the pressing issues of Cyber security and Cyber crime prevention, detection and investigation. A total of 09 problem statements are open as challenge in Vimarsh 2023.

2. KAVACH-2023: KAVACH 2023 is the National Level Cyber Security Hackathon, which was launched at National Media Centre, Raisina Road, New Delhi on 16th February 2023. The Grand Finale took place at five nodal centres (Noida, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Mumbai and Bhopal) from 8th to 10th August 2023. The event was jointly conducted by MoE‟s Innovation Cell, AICTE, BPR&D and I4C, MHA to identify innovative ideas and technological solutions for addressing the cyber security and cyber crime challenges confronting Law Enforcement Agencies and common citizens. More than 3900 teams from various academic institutions participated in this hackathon and 106 teams were shortlisted for the Grand Finale.

3. Manthan (Intellithon): India‟s first of its kind hackathon focused on National Security and Surveillance and enable use of new technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning etc. by our Law Enforcement Agencies aims at Atma Nirbhar Bharat conducted with AICTE, launched on 26th August, 2021 through a digital collaborative platform developed indigenously by Ministry of Education‟s Innovation Cell. Grand Finale of Manthan – 2021 was held on 8-10 December 2021. DG, BPR&D addressed the Grand Finale on 8th December 2021.

4. Smart India Hackathon-2020: NCR&IC, BPR&D partnered with the AICTE, MHRD to conduct the hackathon, SIH-2020, which was organized from 1st to 3rd August 2020. Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon‟ble Prime Minister of India, interacted with the participants of the SIH - 2020. Seventeen winner teams were awarded the cash prize of Rs 1 Lakh each.