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SIH26192SoftwareDisaster Management

Flash Flood Prediction System for Hilly Regions using Multi-Source Data Theme

Ministry of Home Affairs

Ideas submitted
180 / 500
Deadline
30 September 2026
Category
Software
Theme
Disaster Management

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AI / MLData / Analytics

• Background Hilly states in India are highly vulnerable to landslides and flash floods,which often occur with very short warning times. These sudden events result in significant loss of lives and property, and current early warning mechanisms are inadequate for hyper-local prediction and timely evacuation. • Description The proposed initiative aims to develop a predictive system that integrates multiple data sources - rainfall data, soil moisture sensors,slope stability models, historical landslide inventories, and real-time IoT inputs. By combining these datasets, the system will generate hyper-local forecasts at the village or ward level, providing sufficient lead time for evacuation and risk mitigation. • Expected Solution A comprehensive flash flood prediction system that Integrates rainfall,soil moisture, slope stability, and historical disaster data, utilizes IoT sensors for real-time monitoring, issues hyper-local early warnings at village/ward level, and provides actionable lead time for evacuation and disaster preparedness.

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as of 28 Sept
180ideas submitted+34 in 2 days

That puts it 58th of the 240 statements that have any ideas at all, out of 240 on the board. It is moving, so the field here is already forming.

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What a jury will ask about this

  1. 01“Who actually faces this problem today?”

    What works: Naming one real person and what they do instead right now. Reading the statement back is not an answer, they already read it.

  2. 02“This already exists. Why yours?”

    What works: That existing tools are consumer products. Yours is built for the ministry, works offline, in the local language, on official data.

  3. 03“Then why has nobody solved it yet?”

    What works: The real blocker. No connectivity, no incentive, nobody owns the data. You only know this if you read the ministry's own reports.

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