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The ASEAN-INDIA Hackathon is an initiative taken by the Ministry of Education on the clarion call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The ASEAN India Hackathon is being organized online from February 1-3.

Highlights 

• The Hackathon will be enactment of six fundamental virtues of the civilisation — respect, dialogue, cooperation, peace, prosperity and innovation.
• This Hackathon will provide a unique opportunity to India and ASEAN countries to solve their common identified challenges under two broad themes of “Blue Economy” and “Education” and thereby provide an opportunity to forward their economic and cultural ties through collaboration in education, science and technology.
• This ASEAN India Hackathon will provide the countries involved a unique opportunity to solve their common identified challenges & will indeed provide a much-needed support to the budding start-ups.

India-ASEAN Relation

• The background and the foundation of the India-ASEAN relations lies in the shared beliefs, religions, and culture.
• India is the largest democratic and the demographic country of the region. Thus, it becomes India can lead the ASEAN community.
• In that line, India has extended its support to ASEAN countries by providing COVID-19 vaccines. India and ASEAN also share the strong academic and research ties.
• Various Indian universities such as IIT-Delhi and Tezpur University host students from the ASEAN partner countries.
• India also launched 1000 ASEAN PhD Fellowships for ASEAN citizens. Further, the National Education Policy 2020 will also bring opportunities for India as well the entire world.

 Source: PIB