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Detailed explanation-1: -This competition will focus on multiple key aspects involved in designing, manufacturing and testing an Hyperloop Pod. The short-listed teams selected for the final round will have to develop a fully functional prototype of their design for demonstration at Hyperloop Test Track in IIT Madras Campus.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hyperloop in India IIT Madras’s Avishkar Hyperloop which was formed in 2017 had been working on scalability and frugal engineering concepts for the development of a Hyperloop based transportation system for India.

Detailed explanation-3: -India is on its way to launching the first indigenous hyperloop system. Indian Railways along with IIT Madras is all set to launch a Centre of Excellence for Hyperloop Technologies at the institute.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indian Hyperloop Efforts Since 2017, the Centre of Innovation of IIT Madras has housed Avishkar Hyperloop, a 70-80-strong student project that has been steadily working to construct and test a prototype hyperloop vehicle. Part of the IIT Madras Avishkar Hyperloop team, with their scaled-down prototype.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hyperloop is a high-speed train, running in vacuum in a tube Some foreign companies have shown interest to bring hyperloop technology for ultra-high-speed travel to India, but discussions are at a very early stage, Niti Aayog Member VK Saraswat said on Friday.