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NITI Aayog
Government of India
NITI Aayog
26-May-2016 15:27 IST
NITI Aayog Launches 500 Tinkering Labs
for Schools and 100 Incubation Centres
NITI
Aayog is inviting applications from eligible schools/ organisations and
individuals to apply for the three major schemes under Atal Innovation Mission:
(a) establishing tinkering laboratories in schools (b) establishing new
incubation centres and (c) scaling-up established incubation centres.
To
foster creativity and scientific temper in students, Atal Innovation Mission
(AIM) will establish 500 Atal Tinkering Laboratories in schools. It will
provide one time establishment grant-in-aid of Rs. 10 lakh for establishing
Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL) in schools (grade VI – XII) across India.
Further, an amount of Rs. 10.0 lakh would also be provided for each ATL over a
period of 5 years for operational expenses of ATLs. Thus, an amount of Rs. 20
lakhs per Atal Tinkering Laboratory in each selected school will be spent.
Young children will get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand
the concepts of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Competitions
at regional and national scale will also be organised to showcase the
innovations developed by the children.
AIM
will also provide financial support to academic and non-academic institutions
(companies/technology parks/group of individuals) to establish new incubation
centres across India. These will be called Atal Incubation Centres (AIC). They
will be established in subject specific areas such as manufacturing, transport,
energy, health, education, agriculture, water and sanitation, etc. These
incubation Centres will provide pre-incubation facilities, common
infrastructure and services such as technology development assistance,
networking and mentoring, funding access, training and development, business
support services (entrepreneurship development, marketing, finance and accounting,
research, legal, regulatory, etc.) to innovators and startup entrepreneurs for
developing solutions. AIM’s objective is to setup 100 AICs during 2016-17. AIM
will provide a grant-in-aid of Rs. 10 crore for establishing a new AIC over a
period of 5 years towards capital investment as well as operation and
maintenance expenses.
AIM
will also provide scale up support of Rs. 10 crore over a period of two years
to established incubation centres for augmenting their capacity. They will be
shortlisted on the basis of key performance indicators. Both these schemes will
radically transform the start-up ecosystem in the country by creating a network
of incubation centres of world-class standards.
The
guidelines for the implementation of these schemes have been developed after
multiple intensive stakeholders consultations. A competitive approach will be
used for the selection of applicants for establishing the above facilities.
Applicants desirous of participating in these schemes can refer to the Atal
Innovation Mission guidelines on www.niti.gov.in
and submit their applications online.
Source | www.pib.nic.in
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior
Manager @ Library
Khaitan
& Co
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