{"id":12894,"date":"2024-11-26T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12894"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:40:41","slug":"atal-innovation-mission-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/atal-innovation-mission-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Atal Innovation Mission (AIM):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AIM is a <strong>flagship initiative<\/strong> set up <strong>by the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/niti-aayog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NITI Aayog<\/strong><\/a><strong> in 2016<\/strong> with an objective to create and encourage an environment of <strong>innovation and entrepreneurship across schools<\/strong>, <strong>educational organisations, research institutes, and industries,<\/strong> including MSMEs.<\/li>\n<li>AIM has two functions:\n<ul>\n<li>Promote entrepreneurship by encouraging innovators to become entrepreneurs <strong>through financial support<\/strong> as well as <strong>mentorship<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Promote innovation by creating a platform where ideas are generated through like-minded individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>AIM has <strong>created four programs to support these functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Atal Tinkering Labs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Atal Incubation Centres<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Atal New India Challenges<\/strong> and <strong>Atal Grand Challenges<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mentor India<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Apart from these programs, AIM also <strong>seeks and collaborates with academia, industries<\/strong>, <strong>NGOs,<\/strong> and individuals to enable an atmosphere of innovation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>All the <strong>initiatives<\/strong> of AIM are currently <strong>monitored and managed <\/strong>systematically <strong>using real-time MIS systems and dynamic dashboards.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What are Atal Tinkering Labs?<\/h3>\n<p>Atal Tinkering Labs are state-of-the-art space established in a school with a goal to foster curiosity and innovation in young minds, between grade 6th to 12th across the country through tools and technologies such as Internet of Things, 3D printing, rapid prototyping tools, robotics etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/continuation-of-atal-innovation-mission-approved-101732561454747.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continuation of Atal Innovation Mission approved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is a flagship initiative to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country and was set up in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}