Atal Innovation Mission – NITI Aayog launches ATL Sarthi
What is ATL Sarthi?
- It is a comprehensive self-monitoring framework to strengthen the ever-growing ecosystem of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL).
- ATL Sarthi will enable the ATLs to be efficient and effective.
The initiative has four pillars:
- a self-reporting dashboard known as ‘MyATL Dashboard’
- Compliance SOPs for schools to ensure financial and non-financial compliances,
- on-ground enablement of ATLs in collaboration with relevant local authorities through Cluster-based Approach and
- providing ownership to schools to analyze their performance through Performance-Enablement (PE) Matrix.
What is Atal Innovation Mission?
- NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) was established in 2016.
- To encourage a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country.
- Provides a forum for multiple parties to collaborate and provides collaboration opportunities.
- To serve as an umbrella organization that encompasses and oversees the country’s whole innovation ecosystem.
Initiatives of AIM
- Atal Tinkering Labs – at school level
- Atal Incubation Centres – An ecosystem of Startups and Entrepreneurs
- Atal Community Innovation Centres – serving Unserved and Under-Served regions of India
- Atal New India Challenges – Product and Service Innovations with National Impact
- ARISE ANIC challenges – to stimulate startup/ MSME industry innovation
- Mentor of Change (Mentorship and Partnerships – with Public, Private sector, NGOs, Academia, Institutions)
Atal Tinkering Labs
To foster a creative attitude among high school students across the country.
What is taught under this?
- design thinking,
- critical thinking,
- computational thinking,
- digital manufacturing,
- collaboration, and
- other 21st-century skills.
Funding:
- Grant-in-aid of up to Rs 20,00,000/- is awarded to schools selected for setting up the ATL system.
- It will allow India to establish itself as a worldwide hub for world-class innovation.
SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB