ATAL INNOVATION MISSION (AIM)

About:

• Objective: The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) including Self-Employment and Talent Utilisation (SETU) is Government of India's endeavor to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship esp. in technology driven areas.
  
  
• Mission HQ: New Delhi.
  
  
• Background: In 2016, Union Cabinet approved the establishment of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Self-Employment and Talent Utilisation (SETU) in NITI Aayog.
  
  
• It has two core Functions: (1) Entrepreneurship promotion through Self-Employment and Talent Utilisation wherein innovators will be supported to become successful entrepreneurs and (2) Innovation promotion to provide a platform where innovative ideas are generated.
  
  

Components:

Following are the three platforms established by AIM to promote entrepreneurship in the country.

1. Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs): ATLs will be established in school across India as a workspace where young minds can give shape to their ideas through hands-on do-it-yourself mode, and learn innovation skills.
   
   
2. Atal Incubation Centres (AICs): To be established across India to help start-ups expand quicker and enable innovation-entrepreneurship, in core sectors such as manufacturing, transport, energy, education, agriculture, water and sanitation, etc.
   
   
3. Scale-up support to Established Incubators (EIC): Under it, the start-up ecosystem in the country will be transformed by upgrading the Established Incubation Centres to world-class standards.