Atal Community Innovation Centre Program

What is Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) program?

• The initiative aims at facilitating knowledge building and provides infrastructure support to aspiring community innovators essential for their entrepreneurship journey.
• Currently there are 22 Community Innovator fellows being incubated at the Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) program of AIM.
• A Community Innovator Fellow is an individual with an entrepreneurial mind-set, with an idea to solve a community challenge through her or his enterprise.
• This is a one-year-long intensive fellowship program wherein an aspiring community innovator can apply irrespective of their socio-economic background.
• AIM has been setting up Atal Community Innovation Centres across the country.
• Currently there are 14 such centres, spread across 9 states and 36 more are coming up in the near future to take the collective number to 50 such Centres.

 

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Q1) Where was India's first Atal Community innovation Centre launched?

India's first Atal Community Innovation Center was launched at Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, in association with Atal Innovation Mission.

Source: All India Radio