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26/04/21 09:00 AM IST

Dr Chintan Vaishnav has been appointed the mission director of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

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  •  Noted socio-technologist Dr Chintan Vaishnav has been appointed the mission director of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), the government’s flagship initiative under NITI Aayog.
  • Vaishnav will take over from Ramanathan Ramanan later.
  • Ramanan has been leading AIM as its first mission director since June 2017. Vaishnav is currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US. He holds a PhD in technology, management, and policy from MIT.
  • Vaishnav is an engineer trained to understand and build large-scale systems, with both human as well as technological complexities.
  • As a teacher, innovator, and entrepreneur, he has first-hand experience of the innovation ecosystem, both in India and the US.
  • He has co-founded both commercial and non-profit organisations, and advised startups, corporations, and governments on tackling challenges at the intersection of technology and systems, development, and public policy.

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  • AIM’s mission is to create and promote a vibrant ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country. Over the past four years, since its inception, AIM’s various initiatives have achieved notable successes.
  • So far, AIM has established 72,59 Atal Tinkering Labs in schools across 650 districts, providing over 3.5 million students access to emerging technologies.
  • It has also operationalised 68 Atal incubators, fostering over 2000 startups, of which 625 are led by women.
  • AIM selected 56 Atal New India and ARISE Challenge winners for product innovations with socio-economic impact, and initiated establishment of 20 Atal Community Innovation Centres to spur community-centric innovations addressing needs of rural India.
  • It has established one of the largest voluntary Mentors of Change networks, with over 5,000 mentors nationwide and more than 30 corporate and international partners.


Source - livemint

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