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Bihar students create Smart Mandi: Crops will be sold in 45 minutes with no middlemen
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News18•19-10-2026, 16:17
Bihar students create Smart Mandi: Crops will be sold in 45 minutes with no middlemen
- •Final-year students of Government Engineering College, Jehanabad, have developed a Smart Mandi.
- •The idea for this web app project came through the Smart India Hackathon.
- •Farmers need to register on the platform and book a convenient slot.
- •A GPS-enabled QR code system ensures secure access and verification near the mandi.
- •Farmers can sell their produce within 45 minutes transparently without middlemen or long queues.
Key Questions Answered
The Smart Mandi is a web application developed by final-year engineering students from the Government Engineering College, Jehanabad, designed to help farmers sell their produce transparently within 45 minutes while avoiding middlemen and long queues.
The project was created by a team of final-year engineering students named Manav Raj, Abhinav Raj, and Rahul Kumar, and the idea originated through the Smart India Hackathon.
Farmers register on the web app to book a convenient slot, which generates a QR code. The QR code opens half an hour before the slot time provided the user is within an 800-meter radius via GPS, allowing a security guard to scan it and process the crop sale in just 45 minutes with WhatsApp updates.
