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december 2017 | dl.eletsonline.com
digitalLEARNING @dl_magazine digitallearningonlineAtAl InnovAtIon MIssIon:
ENvIsAGING INNovAtIoN
AmoNG Youth
the Atal Innovation mission (AIm) is a flagship initiative
of the Prime minister of India, set up by NItI Aayog to
promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the
length and breadth of the country, says R Ramanan,
mission Director - AtAL Innovation mission, NItI Aayog,
Government of India, in an interview with Rajbala of
Elets news network (Enn).The vision is
to have every
school have access
to at least one
or more Atal
Tinkering Labs
in each district
of the country, as
well as to scale
the same up
with the help of
state education
ministries across
the length and
breadth of the
countr y.“
”
Technological innovations play
an important role in fostering
productivity gains and economic
growth. What sort of innovation
model do we need to adopt for
inclusive growth in the country?
technology is evolving rapidly in multiple
areas including software, Robotics, Artificial
Intelligence, mobility, Inter of things, Augmented
and virtual Reality, Cloud services, Bitech etc.
more importantly they are fusing together to
create new application and also creating new
disruptive and innovative emerging business
models. this is enabling the leveraging of
technology to new services, new entrepreneurial
ventures in the rural and deprived sections of
society by not only empowering them to pursue
new livelihoods, improve productivity, but also
to access markets that were conventionally
thought beyond their reach. For instance, cloud
services can enable people in villages and hilly
districts to access the country or even global
markets for their farm produce or export of their
handicrafts and thus can change their economic
status as well as integration into society. there
is a huge opportunity therefore in leveraging
technology for inclusive growth both from an
economic perspective as well as from a social
impact perspective.Atal Innovation Mission has two
core functions- Entrepreneurship
promotion and Innovation
promotion. Please describe in brief.
the Atal Innovation mission (AIm) is a flagship
initiative of the Pm of India, set up by NItI Aayog
to promote innovation and entrepreneurship
across the length and breadth of the country.
AIm is also envisaged as an umbrella innovation
organisation that would play an instrumental
role in alignment of innovation policies between
central, state and sectoral innovation schemes,
incentivising establishment of an ecosystem of
innovation and entrepreneurship at various levels
higher secondary schools, science, engineering
and higher academic institutions, and smE
industry / corporate levels.To foster curiosity, creativity and
imaginations in young minds,
Atal Tinkering Laboratories were
established by AIM. What are the
features of ATL?
At the school level, AIm is setting up Atal tinkering
Labs (AtL) in schools across all 700+ districts
across the country. these AtLs are dedicated
innovation workspaces of 1,000-1,500 square
feet where latest technologies like 3D Printers,
Robotics, Internet of things (Iot), miniaturised