ATL SARTHI AND ATAL INNOVATION MISSION

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:

  1. a self-reporting dashboard known as ‘MyATL Dashboard’
  2. Compliance SOPs for schools to ensure financial and non-financial compliances,
  3. on-ground enablement of ATLs in collaboration with relevant local authorities through Cluster-based Approach and
  4. 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

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