- NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has signed Statement of Intent (SOI) with German tech company SAP to promote culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across 100 Atal Tinkering Labs across India.
- SAP will adopt 100 Atal Tinkering Laboratories in 2018 for five years to nurture science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning among secondary school children across India.
About Atal Innovation Mission
- NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission is among one of flagship programs of Government to promote innovation and entrepreneurship culture in country.
- Its mandate is to create umbrella structure to oversee innovation ecosystem of country and revolutionize innovation eco-system.
- For this Atal Tinkering Labs are established across the country.
- AIM targets to have at least one Atal Tinkering Lab in every district and proposed Smart City of India.
- It aims to give substantial boost to the innovation ecosystem and to catalyse the entrepreneurial spirit in the country.