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04 May 2022 Atal Innovation Mission

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Atal Innovation Mission launched Phase-I of the second edition of ‘Atal New India Challenge’ (ANIC 2.0).
ANIC 1.0 was launched in the year 2018 to call upon innovations and technologies to be relevant to the people.

Atal New India Challenge is a flagship program of Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog. The objective of the program is to seek, select, support and promote technology-based innovations that address regional challenges of national importance and social relevance.
ANIC supports the selected startups in the commercialization phase during 12-18 months with solicitation of innovations in the prototype phase.

To solve problems of national importance and social relevance (production) by manufacturing products based on existing technologies.
Helping to find new solutions, markets and initial customers (commercialisation) in the context of India.

To encourage innovations in important areas like education, health, water and sanitation, agriculture, food processing, housing, energy, mobility, space etc. for India’s sustained growth and development.
Supporting innovators on risks associated with access to resources for testing, piloting and market building, along with identifying the ‘Commercialization Valley of Death’ (the difference between research and commercialisation).

ANIC 1.0 created an Open Innovation Challenge Format where challenge statements were published in the public domain and calls for applications were made.
Installment based grant-in-aid up to Rs.1 crore to startup winners/individual innovators and assistance through AIM’s innovation network.

The first phase of ANIC 2.0 will address 18 challenges in 7 sectors, including e-mobility, road transport, space technology and applications, sanitation technology, medical equipment and materials, waste management and agriculture.

AIM is a flagship initiative of the Government of India to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country.
It aims to develop new programs and policies to promote innovation in various sectors of the economy, provide forums and opportunities for collaboration to various stakeholders, raise awareness among people and create an umbrella/innovative role for monitoring the innovation ecosystem of the country. To develop the umbrella structure.

Atal Tinkering Laboratory: Through this, to solve the problems of the students in the schools of the country, their mental development is to be done.
Atal Incubation Centres: These have been established to promote world class startups and add a new dimension to the incubator model.
Challenges of Atal New India: Promoting product innovations and tailoring them to the needs of different sectors/ministries. Today Current Affairs
Mentor India Campaign: A national mentor network created in collaboration with the public sector, corporates and institutions to support all initiatives of the Mission.
Atal Community Innovation Centre: To encourage community centric innovation and ideas in unprotected/protected areas of the country including Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
Atal Research and Innovation for Small Enterprises (ARISE): To encourage innovation and research in the MSME industry.