Stimulating innovation in country! Niti Aayog and AIM launches new ‘Atal Community Innovation Centre’
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New Delhi, Jul. 31: Taking a giant leap in fostering innovation in India, Niti Aayog and Atal Innovation Mission launch ‘Atal Community Innovation Centre’ to encourage innovation through solution-driven design thinking to serve the society.
Under the flagship initiative, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), Niti Aayog launched a new milestone program for community innovation in New Delhi today.
The new initiative aims to encourage the spirit of innovation in the country. Speaking about the initiative, AIM Mission Director R Ramanan said, "the purpose of this new initiative is to make innovation ecosystem socially inclusive as well as to ensure equitable distribution of infrastructure for innovation across the country".
He stressed, the new program has been specifically designed for underserved, unserved regions of Tier 1 or Metro cities, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, Smart Cities, Aspirational districts, North-East, Jammu and Kashmir as well as the rural and tribal regions of India.
Vice-Chairman NITI Aayog Dr. Rajiv Kumar, CEO NITI Aayog Amitabh Kant, AIM Mission Director R. Ramanan and other senior officials also presented on the occasion.
The Atal Innovation Mission is a flagship initiative set up by the NITI Aayog to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the length and breadth of the country.
It has been created as an umbrella innovation organization to play an instrumental role in the alignment of innovation policies between central, state and sectoral innovation schemes incentivizing the establishment.
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