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The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"

—Pope Leo XIV

80,000 CCTV Cameras, One Problem: Gujarat Police Asks Indian Startups to Build the AI That Ties Them Together

Gujarat Police AI Hackathon invites Indian startups to integrate 80,000 CCTVs across Gujarat using AI systems.

Gujarat Police presents a unique challenge: 80,000 CCTV cameras across 26 departments and 34 districts, and no single system to make sense of them. Its Innovation Hackathon 2026 asks India’s AI startups to build one, with ₹51 lakh prize pool.

India’s AI Hackathon to Focus on Human Judgement as Machines Find Bugs

M. M. Tripathi, Director General at NIELIT headquarters in New Delhi. Cyber Kushti 2026 is being run with the ISAC Foundation under the National Security Database, with CERT-In as knowledge partner, and closes with the Kesari round on 9 October.

Frontier AI models now surface security findings faster than any team can read them. NIELIT’s Cyber Kushti 2026 hands participants a deliberately imperfect assessment package and scores them on what they reject as much as what they fix.