• Ideas will be automatically sent to the HI, selected by the applicant. (MoMSME through its HIs all across the country will shortlist meritorious ideas.)
• For evaluation, each HI will identify and create a pool of experts from
  different domains/areas of expertise, e.g., entrepreneur, technical expert, financial expert, sector expert, etc.
• From this pool of experts, a panel of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 experts will be selected by the HI to evaluate each idea.
• After evaluation, each HI will shortlist applicants on https://innovative.msme.gov.in/ and will upload the scores & details of shortlisted applicants’ sector-wise along with proper justification for selecting the idea in the Minutes of their evaluation Meeting. During the evaluation, HIs shall adhere to the mandate & themes for the ideas decided by the Ministry of MSME.
• HIs shall ensure that the ideas submitted in MSME Idea Hackathon 2022 and the ideas which were approved in the previous Hackathons by this Ministry shall not be uploaded in MSME Hackathon 2.0. If HIs do this, then the idea will not be considered by MoMSME
• HIs shall interview each applicant and submit the ideas with suitable Title and details of the ideas including the financial details and upload only the correct details. The finance required for each idea should be scrutinized thoroughly. All the fields in the portal are kept editable for the HIs while forwarding the selected ideas by them. The HIs shall do the due diligence and edit the details appropriately in consultation with the applicants before forwarding them to the Ministry. Only the exact amount required by the ideas shall be uploaded. MoMSME reserves rights to prune/reduce the project cost as per the decision of the PMAC.
• HIs have to ensure that no similar ideas supported already in earlier Hackathons are uploaded in this Hackathon.

• After receiving shortlisted ideas from HIs, the PMU will carry out the first stage screening. Only those ideas will be processed which have been received with the relevant and appropriate information, fulfilling all the obligatory conditions as per the scheme guidelines. If the idea uploaded is incomplete/or with incoherent information, the idea will be liable for rejection.
• This will then be counter-checked by the programme division to ensure no eligible idea has been left out. Thereafter the screened ideas will be forwarded to the Domain Expert Selection
  Committees (DESCs).

The ideas received would be further evaluated by DESCs.

• These five Domain Expert Selection Committees (DESCs) will comprise experts from the Industry/Academia/Government. There will be a provision for an honorarium as per GFR for the experts. One expert from MSME DI and one member from the program division for coordination will also constitute the DESC. DESCs will evaluate ideas forwarded to them after the first stage of screening.
• The DESC will evaluate the ideas and would select ideas for recommendation to PMAC for final approval. To ensure all the sectors get adequately represented, the number of ideas
• recommended must be in the ratio of them being received. The cut-off ratio will be indicated by the officer from the programmed division

• After detailed evaluation by the DESCs, the recommended ideas would be forwarded to the PMAC for final approval.
• The approved ideas will be granted financial assistance as per scheme guidelines for further development.
• PMAC reserves the right to reject any idea which deems not fit for supporting if the similar idea has been already supported under the scheme without assigning any reasons.