THE BOTTOM LINE Man has come a long way from Stone Age.

With the present technological tools coming in

place, and rapid rate of advance in newer technology for communication and information flow using e-governance systems and e-solutions, soon our present will be the new Stone Age The sustainable and complete growth of a nation without compromising the quality of life of its citizens requires the optimal and intelligent use of its human resource through meticulous planning and implementation. To make such a scenario a reality we need smarter structure, planning, development and at the core of it all smarter and more efficient systems that get the work done at a fast rate and yet keep in the cycle of progress, an inherent sustainability. Egovernance and E-solutions are key aspects for such systems. They simplify and quicken certain slow and inefficient processes and also lead to the creation of new and smarter governance. Knowing is half the battle. The opportunities of a smarter world are tremendous and it has unending implications.. EXAMPLE OF AN E-SOLUTION Problem The attendance of staff nurses at government run nursing homes is very low. This is the reason for the poor treatment and care given to pregnant women and new born babies. Solution To increase the attendance of staff nurses we need to monitor their presence and incentivize their work. Moreover we must make sure that the registers which help monitor their attendance is available to both the government and public on demand. We may do so by developing an app that orders the head at the nursing home to get a random set of nurses in a random order at a random time (during working hours) once every day as judged by the app in queue in front of a camera which would take their photo in that order and through facial recognition identify them. The data is transferred to an online portal available to both higher authorities and possibly public on demand. This policy can be implemented at the ground level and may be made mandatory keeping in regard judicial provisions and policy implementations of it. Hence the app in one go makes the head of the nursing home as well as

the staff nurses highly accountable without spending much money, much of their time. In fact it is a leap from the traditional registers and paperwork and may also save a lot of time and money that way, apart from its main implication of increasing the attendance of the government employees.

Hence this e-solution not only tackles the main problem but also removes other bottlenecks and inefficiencies in chain of processes. (Note: This is a brief part of the solution just to incorporate in you an idea of how the basic part of the solution may look like.)

PROBLEM STATEMENT
We have identified some sectors for you and done some basic level research.

EDUCATION
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differs from the dead. Aristotle With India aiming to evolve as one of the most powerful and developed nation of the world by 2020, it is imperative to ensure that the education sector of the country keeps up with the time. For sustained economic growth, India must produce more skilled individuals that may take part in the development. However the countrys education system, particularly the higher education system is often accused of being over-regulated and under-governed. Further, with population increasing at such a rapid rate, its proving to be very difficult for the government to provide optimum quality education to each and every citizen of the country. Although the concept of effective school governance is not new, it needs to be thoroughly innovated to be able to effectively deal with new challenges confronting us. With science and technology evolving at such a rapid rate, the conventional classroom education we offer can hardly be described as sufficient. In this context, e-governance and e-solutions can facilitate in improving program and bringing efficiency in all aspects of the education.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Quality and technical education to all Improve the literacy rate of the country Reduction in dropout rate. Special Emphasis to girls and women education. Improve the vocational training facilities in the country.

SOME OF THE MAJOR ISSUES The population of the country being so huge, It is very difficult for the government to ensure a good quality education to its entire citizens effectively especially in the remote parts of the country. Lack of quality teachers and education in the rural parts of the country Absence of teachers performance review system. Lack of research facilities in higher secondary level. Lack of required number of vocational education institutions in the country. Lack of participatory, accountable and transparent system in the country. Lack of effective redressal mechanism Lack of central database required to make accurate statistical analysis.

PROBLEM Suggest e-solutions and products to tackle the issues and challenges faced by the education system of the country with existing resources. The focus must lie on modernizing the present procedures as well as coming out with products that will use the available resources to tackle the issues in a better way. Also suggest use of new resources if possible that open up with the use of e-solutions etc. [The issues discussed above are just to give you an idea and you are free to suggest as many eproducts to get rid of as many issues as you can.] SPECIAL POINTS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF User friendliness of the interface of your product taking special care of the population residing in the remote locations of the country. The implementation feasibility of the product.

REQUIREMENTS You must explain your products with the schematics of various interfaces and diagrams to depict the information and data flow. You must justify the implementation mechanism you have chosen (mobile, set-top box, web etc.) with special reference to the marginalized population of the country You must suggest awareness programs to ensure its outreach to each and every part of the country. You must also mention all the sources of data, info and other statistics used.

ENERGY
In present day world, with the demand for energy growing at an impeccable rate unmatched by the growth of its supply, we are on the brink of a major crisis. The aggregate demand for energy in India is 40% more than the aggregate supply. With problems such as 50% energy losses during transmission and the fast diminishing reserves of coal, we face a potential threat to not only the growth of the economy but also the survival of life on earth. The growing need to replace these old and unyielding systems with new, interconnected and smarter system with the potential of generating its own energy, is a reality that we cannot turn our backs to. In such a scenario where we face this energy crisis, one must focus on rapid and effective innovation in the system, to make more energy efficient designs and implement them on a large scale with both the uniformity of the policies throughout the country and yet keeping the variations required by each region. In this context, e-governance and e-solutions can facilitate in improving the program, implementing innovation, decreasing energy consumption and bringing to aspects of the energy sector an impeccable design based on sustainable use of energy, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Efficient and Smarter systems. Greener and Cleaner energy Reduction in unnecessary consumption of energy. Reduction in energy losses and energy theft. Special emphasis on sustainable development models Improving the fundamental design and energy flow and use. Smarter buildings and smarter generation of energy (individually).

Increase in production of energy at an individual level. Transfer of data with respect to what energy sources are to be used and how based on location, economics and personal choice. Help in terms on how to set up generation units on an individual basis etc.

PROBLEM Suggest e-solutions and products to tackle the issues and challenges faced by the energy sector of the country with existing resources. The focus must lie on modernizing the present procedures as well as coming out with products that will use the available resources to tackle the issues in a better way. Also suggest use of new resources if possible that open up with the use of e-solutions etc. You may also create a system of information flow that allows cheaper and smarter creation of energy at an individual level or at a small scale for personal consumption (such as information on where to harness which kind of energy and on availability of tools to do the same). *The problems discussed above are just to give you an idea and you are free to suggest as many e-products to get rid of as many issues as you can.+ SPECIAL POINTS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF User friendliness of the interface of your product taking special care of the population residing in the remote locations of the country and for marginalized classes. The implementation feasibility of the product.

REQUIREMENTS You must explain your products with the schematics of various interfaces and diagrams to depict the energy flow, consumption, losses and generation and changes in these using smarter e-governance systems. Mention all the data and information that you are using. You must justify the implementation mechanism you have chosen with special reference to the green and clean energy. You must suggest awareness programs to ensure its outreach to each and every part of the country. You must also mention sources of all the data, info and other statistics used.

LAW AND ORDER

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King, Jr. Law and order are necessary to maintain the social fabric of society and ensure a proper framework for economic and social development. For India to achieve Vision 2020 goal, it is imperative that innovative solutions be found to the problems that plague the machinery that ensures law and order in the country. A growing population, escalating crime rates and a booming economy, all call for e-solutions to the problems relating to law and order.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Faster registration of cases Transparent and quick investigation of crimes Maintenance of criminal records Prevention of crime

SOME OF THE MAJOR ISSUES: The police force and its machinery have been alienated from the common man. A large number of crimes go unreported. The present system of FIRs is multi-tiered, which means that a particularly difficult case takes a lot of time to move up the hierarchy, delaying and hence denying justice. There are reports of manipulation in criminal investigations. Transparency in policing has become the need of the hour. E-Databases of criminals to ensure faster identification of the convicts. Improvement in internal administration to ensure efficiency and uniformity in recruitments, promotions, rewards, etc. Even though we claim the crime rate is decreasing, it is far from truth. Special care need to be given to women and child related crime.

PROBLEM Suggest e-solutions and products to tackle the issues and challenges faced by the education system of the country with existing resources. The focus must lie on modernizing the present procedures as well as coming out with products that will use the available resources and data to tackle the issues in a better way. Also suggest use of new resources if possible that open up with the use of e-solutions etc. You may use statistical approach to come with new solutions. [The issues discussed above are just to give you an idea and you are free to suggest as many eproducts to get rid of as many issues as you can.] SPECIAL POINTS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF User friendliness of the interface of your product taking special care of the population residing in the remote locations of the country specially the marginalized classes of the population. The implementation feasibility of the product.

REQUIREMENTS You must explain your products with the schematics of various interfaces and diagrams to depict the information and data flow. Mention all the data and statistics that you have made and used. You must justify the implementation mechanism you have chosen (mobile, set-top box, web etc.) with special reference to the marginalized classes of the country You must suggest awareness programs to ensure its outreach to each and every part of the country. You must also mention all the sources of data, info and other statistics used.

HEALTHCARE
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. Winston S. Churchill A country of open farms, crowded villages, and tumultuously active cities, India possesses a seemingly endless pool of human capitaland growing economic capitalbut relatively little of it spent on healthcare. With the projected growth rate around 8.2 % for the next five-year plan, India is poised to continue on its prosperity path. However, the government pays only 1.1% of its gross domestic product (of a total $1.1 trillion) on public healthcare, and an additional 3.7% is privately financed, for a total of 4.8% of GDP on health spending. Indian healthcare today is crippled by many gripping issues from low rural healthcare facilities, inadequate medical workforce, gaping infant and maternal mortality rate to the high cost of medical care. With India aiming to evolve as one of the most powerful and developed nation of the world by 2020, it is thus imperative to ensure that the healthcare sector of the country keeps up with the time. Although the concept of effective medical care governance is not new, it needs to be thoroughly innovated to be able to effectively deal with new challenges confronting us. With science and technology evolving at such a rapid rate, the conventional system of healthcare and medical facilities we offer can hardly be described as sufficient In this context, egovernance and e-solutions can facilitate in improving program and bringing efficiency in all aspects of the healthcare. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Quality and effective healthcare facilities for all. Greater access to basic healthcare facilities and medicines in rural areas. Lower infant mortality and maternal mortality rate of the country. Special emphasis to women and child nutrition, growth and health. Better medical training facilities and number of available trained medical workforce in the country. Greater awareness regarding basic healthcare, sanitation and hygiene.

SOME OF THE MAJOR ISSUES Greater access to quality healthcare facilities in rural India. Lack of specialist doctors, trained nurses and dispensaries in the rural parts of the country. Lack of basic healthcare facilities such as clean water, sanitation facilities, resulting in endemic malaria, typhoid, hepatitis among other infectious diseases. Huge disparity between the average income and the cost of medical facilities. , compounded by the lack of awareness regarding availing medical health insurance. Prevalent inertia amongst pharmaceuticals companies to introduce new molecular entities owing to the tight governmental price regulation and the drive to bring me-too products at lower cost. Low infrastructural support abysmal number of well-equipped hospitals, nursing homes, dispensaries. Problem of inadequate number of doctors, trained specialist, nurses available, compounded by the inertia of doctors to serve in the rural areas and the choice of many to shift their practice to western countries. Lack of emergency medical services, workforce of paramedical and emergency trained technicians along with problems of congested roadways hindering availability of quick medical support. Growing impact of sedentary lifestyle and consumption of processed food on health. High infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate. Absence of doctors performance review system. Lack of required number of medical education institutions in the country. Lack of central database required to make accurate statistical analysis and record of citizens' medical history.

PROBLEM Suggest e-solutions and products to tackle the issues and challenges faced by the healthcare system of the country with existing resources. The focus must lie on modernizing the present procedures as well as coming out with products that will use the available resources and data to tackle the issues in a better way. Also suggest use of new resources if possible that open up with the use of e-solutions, better connectivity and newer technologies etc. [The issues discussed above are just to give you an idea and you are free to suggest as many eproducts to get rid of as many issues as you can.]

SPECIAL POINTS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF User friendliness of the interface of your product taking special care of the population residing in the remote locations of the country and the marginalized classes of the population. The implementation feasibility of the product.

REQUIREMENTs You must explain your products with the schematics of various interfaces and diagrams to depict the information and data flow. Mention all the data and statistics that you have made and used. You must justify the implementation mechanism you have chosen (mobile, set-top box, web etc.) with special reference to the marginalized classes of the country You must suggest awareness programs to ensure its outreach to each and every part of the country. You must also mention all the sources of data, info and other statistics used.

TRANSPORTATION
A bus, a train or a car to work. A bike to school. A plane for a business trip. And even if you don't leave your home, your life is still influenced by the transportation industry: virtually every tangible goodfood, clothing, medicine, vehicles, and computershas been transported into your world from somewhere else. Transportationthe movement of people and goods from point A to point Bis the life force of our economy. Cities could not exist if we didn't have transportation systems to move people and goods in, out and around them. It has been a leading driver behind globalization: shrinking distances, seeding the emergence of entire new economies and improving the quality of life for millions of people. Yet many of our transportation systems are inadequate to serve the needs of the 21st century. The need to innovate, reverse and re-engineer and reverse innovate technology is the need for a developing nation such as ours. By integrating technology and intelligence into the physical transportation infrastructure, we can improve capacity, enhance the traveler experience and

make our transportation systems more efficient, safe, and secure. In such an hour of need, egovernance can aid in building a friendlier and healthy public transportation system. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Flow of information such as timing, delays and best routes to allow improved decision making by the consumers Accurately predicting demand and better aligning capacity for both passenger and freight carriers. Build an enduring economic and political case for change using more complete information about costs, pricing and demand. Develop advanced traffic control systems for air, land and sea; design intelligent vehicles, aircraft and trains that act as nodes on an integrated network. Empower customers with information about their transportation choices. Reduce energy use and harmful emissions, while assuring safety. In short, build smarter transportation.

PROBLEM Solutions (in form of ideas and products (such as apps etc.)) to various problems in transportation system (mainly public) mentioned above and also to those problems which you may come across. Modernization of present procedures and come up with new procedures if necessary, within the policy framework of the government and within the judicial framework. Analyze economics of the solutions before providing them if required.

SPECIAL POINTS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF User friendliness of the interface of your product taking special care of the population residing in the remote locations of the country. The implementation feasibility of the product.

REQUIREMENTS You must explain your products with the schematics of various interfaces and diagrams to depict the energy flow, consumption, losses and generation and changes in these using smarter e-governance systems.

You must justify the implementation mechanism you have chosen with special reference to the consumer comfort, economics, and government policies and within legal framework. You must suggest awareness programs to ensure its outreach to each and every part of the country and is able to contribute to major segments of the population. You must also mention all the sources of data, info and other statistics used.

[NOTE : YOU ARE FREE TO ATTEMPT ANY NUMBER OF SECTORS AND JUDGING WILL BE DONE ON THE BASIS OF QUALITY OF YOUR SOLUTIONS.] GENERAL SUGGESTIONS One of the KEY uses of E-governance/E-solutions is faster and increased information flow. Any E-solution incorporated by the government may use this increased flow of information and data by collecting, reporting and tracing the information/data faster and more efficiently. The policy implications, economic feasibility and reach of the solutions govern the magnitude of its impact and hence its success. Hence they should be fully analyzed. Removal of bottle necks in most government procedures using e-based systems and solutions is also a good idea. Think of using the voluminous amount of data government has, use probabilistic and statistical approach to generate information from them.

GIVEN BELOW IS THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT: FINAL SOLUTION REQUIREMENTS Presentation having comparative Graphs/Diagrams etc. depicting the solution's impact (before/after and impact using other present solutions) etc. Policy implications of the solution and complete evaluation of its economics, alignment with government policy, and working within the present structure and framework of Indian constitution. Total impact of the solution at the ground and national level. Feasibility analysis (including how the government hierarchy is tackled and steps that the solution need to undergo to be put into use after its adoption, economics, legal and other policy implications) for the solution should be present. Problems that may occur while implementing the solution and solution to those problems.

(Includes the basic abstract requirements as given below). JUDGING CRITERIA

Feasibility (economic and otherwise fundamental) of the solution/solutions given in the different fields and the implications of the solution at the ground level. Impact of the solution/solutions at the national level and to the common man (with special regard to impact on marginalized classes). Ability to implement the solution, keeping in mind our judicial system and the government policies both at the state level and the central level. Both quality and quantity of proposed solutions in terms of the fields covered and ability to create impact.

RULES AND REGULATIONS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The competition is open only to the students studying either in the country or abroad. All the teams have to register on the website which will generate their Team Id. Maximum number of members in the team must not exceed 4. Decision of the judges shall be treated as final and binding. The teams must strictly follow all the deadlines failing to which will lead to their disqualification.

TIMELINE
Last Date Details

Registration for the event Abstract/Progress Report Submission Shortlist Display Final report submission and presentation during the fest

14th February,2013

Through the website.

15th February,2013

Shortlisting will be done on the basis of the report. Shortlisted teams Team ID shall be put up in the website. Participants would be needed to give presentation in front of experts.

20th February,2013

22nd-24th March,2013

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE The registration shall be done through the Cognizance website. Steps (i) (ii) (iii) The Team Leader needs to login into the website through his username and password. The The Bottom Line event page has the tab Register to register the team for the event. This will generate your Team Id and a mail shall be sent to the mail id of team leader about the registration.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PROCEDURE You need to send the abstract to bottomline@cognizance.org.in with the subject Abstract Submission Team Id(eg. Abstract Submission COG13/XXXXXX) Mention the Names and Cognizance Id of all of your team members along with their email ids and contact number. The deadline to send the abstract is 15th February 2013. ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS What are the sectors that you are working on? What are the problems that you would be handling? Mention the reports/case studies/surveys you have seen. The implementation strategy that you may use in your solutions along with the justification to use it. What are the data that you found useful to be used along with their sources? Mention the mathematics that you used and the information that you have extracted from that data.

*Note: Answer to each of the above questions must not be more than 100 words.+

FINAL SUBMISSION (i) (ii) The final presentation shall happen during the fest i.e. 22 nd-24th March, 2012 in IIT Roorkee. Your presentation MUST not extend beyond 15 minutes.

FOR FURTHER QUERIES: Nipun Sawhney Ph. No.: +91-9810380027 Shubhechyya Ghosal Email to: bottomline@cognizance.org.in