Atal Innovation Mission Centre

Syllabus: General Studies Paper 2

Atal Innovation Mission launches women centric challenges under ANIC program

• Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog  launched the Women centric challenges under the 2nd edition of Atal New India Challenge (ANIC).
• The Woman centric challenges address the major issues faced by women from all spheres of life. 
• These include driving women hygiene through innovation, innovations to improve women’s safety, professional networking opportunities for women, innovations that make working mothers’ life better, and easing the life of Rural Women.
• The Aayog highlighted that ANIC aims to seek, select, support and nurture technology-based innovations that solve sectoral challenges of national importance and societal relevance through a grant-based mechanism of up to one crore rupees.

Atal Innovation Mission

• It is Government of India’s flagship initiative to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country.

AIM’s objectives are:

• To develop new programmes and policies for fostering innovation in different sectors of the economy.
• To provide platform and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders.
• To create awareness.
• To create an umbrella structure to oversee innovation ecosystem of the country.