The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has launched the ‘Ambedkar Social Innovation and Incubation Mission (ASIIM)’.
It will be implemented by the Venture Capital Fund for Schedule Castes (VCF-SCs).
Objectives:
To promote entrepreneurship among the SC Youth with special preference to Divyangs.
To support (1,000) innovative ideas till 2024 through a synergetic work with the Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) set up by the Department of Science and Technology.
Under this, 1,000 SC youth would be identified in the next 4 years with start-up ideas through the Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) in various higher educational institutions.