DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

GEC Sreekrishnapuram - How a third-year B.Tech Student from Kerala Saved Lives Using a Computer and Code

On the 11th of August 2018, all of Kerala was beginning to feel the burden of the devastating rains that would thrash the entire state for the next few weeks. Hundreds of lives were lost and the livelihood of millions of people was in jeopardy.

On that day, Biswas, then a third-year Computer Science student at Government Engineering College, Palakkad was putting in another sleepless night with his colleagues to create the ‘Kerala Rescue’ portal which became instrumental in saving thousands of lives. (For details https//medium.com/tinkerhub/how-a-third-year-b-tech-student-from-kerala-saved-lives-using-a-computer-and code