AICTE collaborates with NITI Ayog’s 'Atal Innovation Mission' to mentor school students

The AICTE and the AIM announced a strategic collaboration to empower Atal Tinkering Labs established at schools across the country on the occasion of Dr BR Ambedkar Jayanti, i.e. April 14.

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is all set to adopt Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) established under NITI Ayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM). The decision has been confirmed by an official statement released by the Council. Under this initiative, AICTE’s Institution’s Innovation Councils (IICs) will be connected with Atal Tinkering Labs. The AICTE and the AIM announced a strategic collaboration to empower Atal Tinkering Labs established at schools across the country on the occasion of Dr BR Ambedkar Jayanti, i.e. April 14.

Talking about the collaboration, the NITI Ayog said, “The partnership offers to begin with to connect around 7200+ Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) established in schools with 2500+ Institution’s Innovation Councils (IICs) functioning in higher educational institutions spread across all the states and UTs.”

The mission director of Atal Innovation Mission, R Ramanan said, “AICTE and AIM have developed a strategic partnership over the last couple of years. The adoption of ATLs and their students by AICTE IICs in proximity to the ATLs will greatly enhance the spurring of relevant knowledge and innovative thinking in the ATL school students leveraging the various innovation-related training and innovation workshop initiatives from IICs.”

Stressing upon the training of students and embedding Indian knowledge systems and values associated with it among students, AICTE Chairman Professor Anil Sahasrabudhe said, “I am really happy about this collaboration through which we not only just mentor innovative students but also embed the Indian knowledge sharing value systems among them. I believe giving back to society is a much more crucial value to be imbibed in itself. Therefore, while we aim to embed IoT, Robotics, machine learning, deep learning, 3D, blockchain, augmented reality, virtual reality, etc and train students, we must also focus on how it also endorses along with value systems.”

The signing of the pact will also stem opportunities for students to participate in innovation contests. The NITI Ayog said that these students will be provided mentoring support, access to university ecosystem support, etc. Recently, 295 ATLs across the country have been adopted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CISR).

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