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‘Dubai, one of the best education environments in the world’

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Akash
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“Dubai – World’s one of the most vibrant cities, a city committed to tolerance and a city committed to well being, “said Mark Beer, OBE, Chief Executive, DIFC Courts, Dubai International Financial Centre, during the 11th World Education Summit Dubai.

Describing about Dubai’s education journey, he said, “I would like to take you to a journey, a journey from foundations of education in Emirates to future of education in Dubai. First school in Dubai was opened in 1912. Parents were paid to send their children to school.”

“First Indian school in Dubai was opened in 1961 with eight students has grown to more than 15,000 across all three campuses. First English school was opened in 1963 in a pet’s room of a villa. It was opened by Military. First American school was opened in 1966 by Dubai Petroleum. The year was also important as it was the year when oil was explored in Dubai,” he added.

Explaining about how Dubai evolved itself, Beer said, “In my view, 1985 was Dubai’s first Renaissance. It went from the “Era of Oil” to “Era of diversification”. In 1985, oil contributes around 50 per cent of Dubai’s economy but now it contributes only 2-3 per cent. Dubai decided to diversify its economy away from the wealth comes out of the Earth. And in this process, the city becomes the hub of moving goods from West to East and East to West.”

“So, in the era of diversification people were migrating via Dubai but not staying here. Major factors for people’s stay in a city are: proper healthcare mechanisms, good education opportunities for younger generation and protection of rights. It brings the second Renaissance in Dubai, from “Era of Diversification” to “Era of Sustainability”,” he added.

Beer also described about the role of authorities. He said, “Building trust and confidence and following best international practices, this was the middle of year 2000. In 2006, Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) was established for educating the children.  In 2007, Dubai Health Authority was established keep the citizens healthy. In the journey of 10 years, we are now established as the leading Medical tourism destination of the world.”

Beer said about the WES, “The reason we are here today is, Dubai the leader in the world for one of the best education environments. It educates quarter to million students in 200 schools and in private sector schools, around AED 6.8 billion is paid as fee annually.”

He also said, “In line with Dubai’s future dream, World Education Summit brought 500 speakers from around the globe on one platform to discuss the future of education. It is important as 50 per cent of the children entering to school education will be doing the jobs which no do not exist today.”

He explained the Dubai’s vision of becoming the city of future adding , “Today we are going to enter the third Renaissance. Dubai is the city of future. We brought leading thinkers from around the world to tell us that how the city should look like in future.”

“Its no longer good enough to teach people facts, we need to create human beings, we need to create social and emotional learners. We need to teach new skills and inculcate creativity, problem saving, curiosity and leadership,” he added.

Google’s Software Engineering Internship 2018: Applications invited

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Akash
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The tech giant Google has invited applications for Software Engineering Internship 2018 programme from the students pursuing B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or a related technical field and completing it in 2019.

The 8 to 12 weeks of internship programme will begin from April 2018 and the last date to apply for the internship is 26 December, 2017.

Under this programme, selected students will be offered a competent stipend.  Moreover, to enhance skills of the interns, they will be assigned specific responsibilities which would vary by project area.

Along with the educational qualification, internship demands certain preferred skills like candidate must be enrolled in a full time degree program and returning to the programme after the completion of the internship, hands-on systems software or algorithms, C++, Java, and Python. In addition, candidates should be familiar and have knowledge of Unix/Linux or Windows environments, APIs, TCP/IP and network programming.

The applications for internship can be filled and submitted through Internshala – A web-based portal which offers several internships and training programmes across various industry verticals.

Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave kicks off in Jaipur

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Akash
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A  two-day conclave on Higher Education and Human Resource commenced in Jaipur on Thursday which seeks to inculcate partnership between academia and industry to explore employment opportunity along with enhancing innovation and entrepreneurship of students of Rajasthan.

Being organised by the Department of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan, along with the Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd, under the direction of Higher and Technical Education Minister of Rajasthan Kiran Maheshwari, the conclave is witnessing participation from AICTE Chairman Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe; Atal Innovation Mission, Mission Director Ramanan Ramanathan, High Commissioner of Cooperative Republic of Guyana David Goldwin Pollard, and Vice-Chancellors, Principals and major education stakeholders.

On the inaugural-day on Thursday, the Higher and Technical Education Minister, Kiran Maheshwari said: “This conclave is a start to create a platform for the academia-industry partnership. Through this conclave, I wish to see various initiatives being taken to enhance employability, innovation and entrepreneurship of students.”

She also thanked AICTE Chairman, Prof Sahasrabudhe who arrived on the special invitation from the Minister for extending support to the engineering and technical universities of Rajasthan.

Congratulating for the launch of the conclave, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar through a video message said: “The deliberation at this conference will, I am sure, enable the participants to play an important role in enhancing students skill and increase the employability quotient of student.”

On the occasion, Prof Sahasrabudhe said: “We need to help our students become innovative to prepare them to become job creators. An excellent governance mechanism is required working with the cause of education.”

According to Prof Sahasrabudhe, AICTE has created a semester-long module to help teaching-learning process to be introduced from the 2018 academic session.

Also present at the Conclave was Mission Director of Atal Innovation Mission, Ramanan Ramanathan, who said: “Atal Innovation Mission has embarked on two important missions: promote innovation and entrepreneurship. The mission aims to to create job creators , not job seekers.”

“The aim of this conclave is to explore how can the academia-industry come together, and also to recognise the need to prepare students as per industry requirement,” Ashutosh AT Pednekar, Commissioner College Education and Special Secretary Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan said.

 “The Higher and Technical Education Department of Rajasthan is committed to provide students a better placement in both private and government sectors. It equally focuses on enhancing students entrepreneurship,” he said.

Meanwhile, a MoU was signed between the Centre for Electronic Governance (CEG) and Engineering Council of India (ECI) on e-Governance in the presence of Minister Kiran Maheshwari.

The MoU aims to impart job-oriented training and skills to youth of Rajasthan, especially technical students, to make them employable, said ECI Member Secretary, PR Swarup.

During the Conclave, the Minister also launched a common logo to be used by all the engineering colleges of Rajasthan.

During the conference, various panel sessions were held on topics like Innovation and best practices in Higher and Technical education, enhancing employability, etc.

On Friday the Conclave will witness participation and discussion from various Human Resource organisations.

Dubai’s education sector to adopt best practices: Kalthoom Al Balooshi

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Akash
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“There were different periods of renaissance in Dubai. The first one was in 1985 and the second one in 2006. We have gone through a journey of transformations in different sectors. But let me give you the details about the education sector during the second renaissance,” said Kalthoom AlBalooshi, Executive Director of Education Development, KHDA, Dubai, during the 11th World Education Summit Dubai.

Kalthoom AlBalooshi, Executive Director of Education Development, KHDA, Dubai
Kalthoom AlBalooshi, Executive Director of Education Development, KHDA, Dubai

Explaining the purpose behind creation of KHDA, she said, “The Dubai government has created the Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai (KHDA). The purpose of the KHDA was to create an education sector to serve the people of Dubai and to support the economic growth of the city.”

“But in 2006, the picture of education landscape was very different. There were only 136 private schools though different curriculums but very limited options. There was a huge waiting list at that point of time. There was no approach to ensure the quality of the education. There was no transparency in the sector,” she added.

Providing a picture of education landscape of Dubai in 2006 and the achievements in 2017, Balooshi said, “The parents and students have no choice, they used to choose the schools where their friends are studying. KHDA always focuses on the quality of the education. So, incentivising good quality and ensuring transparency are the two key components of KHDA. From 2006 – the second period of renaissance to 2017, we have 194 private schools, 17 different curriculums, 200 different nationalities, around 3,00,000 of students studying in different schools of Dubai.”

She said, “In 2006 we used talk about the fixed fee of schools but now we are talking about discounts, founder fee, packages, so the market has changed a lot. Earlier, the schools were located in specific areas but now the schools are in different parts of Dubai, the New Dubai, the Old Dubai and the areas where people are living.”

She referred 2017 as new period of renaissance and said, “After 2006, 2017 will be the new period of renaissance for education sector in Dubai. The new education landscape will be full of innovative ideas; it will be about following new practices in the market. We will emphasise more on happiness.”

Telling about the new models of schools in Dubai, Balooshi added, “Earlier, students of Dubai used to go to schools in different countries where the best teaching-learning practices and the unique curriculum is followed. But now, such schools are next to your house. This one model of schools followed in Dubai’s education landscape.”

“The next types of schools we are talking about are the ones which will address the future needs of the market. These schools will focus on human side of every student, their happiness and the skills required in different industries,” she added

According to her, World Education Summit is the platform to showcase the transformation of Dubai’s education space and also the huge opportunities available here such as the new areas of learning, new curriculum, happiness in the classrooms, so there lot of options for schools to thrive and grow in this city.

About expansion in future, she said, “Another thing we are focussing on is that to succeed in the future, we need to collaborate, we need to work together. Explaining about the collaboration, she gave the examples of trees having very deep roots and at the same time roots of one tree are connected with their neighbouring trees which help to withstand in any natural disaster.”

She explained about “What Works” adding, “It actually is a platform where leaders from different backgrounds and school curricula discuss and borrow ideas from each other.”

She said, “For us to thrive in the future we have to collaborate, it can’t be done by oneself.”

Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas in Haryana to be upgraded as Higher Secondary Schools

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Akash
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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has issued the order to upgrade the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) in the state into higher secondary schools.

According to an official release, the chief minister has issued the order while presiding over the seventh meeting of General Council of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) of Haryana School Shiksha Priyojna Parishad.

He directed the officials to provide all the facilities and infrastructure necessary for the upgrade.

“He directed that science stream should also be introduced in KGBVs once they are upgraded upto the 12th standard,” the release said.

Introduced in 2004 under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, KGBVs are upper primary residential schools for the girls belonging to SC, ST, OBC categories besides other minority and disadvantaged sections of society.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has approved 36 KGBVs for 36 Educational Backward Blocks in Haryana. Out of these, 31 are functional in residential mode of which eight KGBVs had been upgraded to Secondary level under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), the release said.

Centre gives nod for India’s first National Rail and Transportation University at Vadodara

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Akash
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The Union Cabinet has approved to set up the first ever National Rail and Transport University (NRTU) in Vadodara.

The university, an initiative of Ministry of Railways, will be established as a Deemed to Be University under de novo category as per the UGC [Institutions Deemed to be Universities] Regulations, 2016, a statement by union government said.

The initiative will help the ministry to skill its human resources and build capability. According to the statement from the Central Government, it will be a catalyst for transformation of rail and transport sector towards New India, said the statement.

The university is likely to launch its first programme in July 2018 as the Government is working towards completing all approvals by April 2018.

Under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, the Ministry of Railways will create a not-for-profit company to manage the proposed university. Along with providing financial and infrastructural support to the university, the company will also appoint Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor of the university. Board of Management, comprising professionals and academics, shall be independent of the Managing Company with full autonomy to perform its academic and administrative responsibilities.

The proposed university will function at National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) at Vadodara, Gujarat. Academy’s existing infrastructure and land will be utilised, and suitably modified and modernized for the purpose of the university. The university is expected to have 3000 full time students. The funding of the new University/Institute is to entirely come from Ministry of Railways.

“This university will set Indian Railways on the path of modernisation and help India become a global leader in transport sector by enhancing productivity and promoting ‘Make in India’,” the statement said.

“It will support ‘Startup India’ and ‘Skill India’ by channeling technology and delivering knowhow, and foster entrepreneurship, generating large scale employment opportunities. This will lead to transformation of railway and transportation sector and enable faster movement of people and goods. Through global partnerships and accessing cutting edge technologies, India will emerge as a global centre of expertise,” added the statement.

Government of Maharashtra to open 100 international schools

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Akash
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The Government of Maharashtra has decided to open 100 international schools to provide quality education to students.

School Education Minister Vinod Tawde has announced it in the State Assembly session in Nagpur. The announcement has been made on the same day; the government adopted the amendment in the Maharashtra Self Financed Schools Act. The amendment will allow private companies and the corporate sector to open schools on no-profit-no-loss basis.

Tawde said, “Even today, private players have made inroads in school education. We have only simplified the process.” He assured that the interest of students, including fee regulation, would be protected, and state language Marathi would be promoted in these schools.

According to the State Government, the decision of opening the 100 international schools by the government will help the children who cannot afford similar education in private schools.

Khan Academy: Personalised Learning Resources for all Ages

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Akash
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Khan Academy through its personalised learning solutions empowers learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom, says Sandeep Bapna, Managing Director, Khan Academy India, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

Please give details about Khan Academy.

Sandeep Bapna, Managing Director, Khan Academy India
Sandeep Bapna, Managing Director, Khan Academy India

Khan Academy is a non-profit organisation with a mission to provide free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. The platform is available online (www.khanacademy.org), as well as on Android and iOS apps. Khan Academy’s iOS and Android apps contain interactive practice exercises and video lessons in subjects such as mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history, economics, finance, grammar, preschool learning, among others.

What kind of practices does Khan Academy follow to help learners study at their own pace?

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos and a personalised learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside the classroom. We lay strong emphasis on personalisation of Khan Academy experience to learners. This happens in the following ways:

  • Our math and physics content is already mapped to Indian curriculum. Since Khan Academy’s content is built with skills as a foundation with well-defined learning goals, it can be used by students of all boards. We already see students from CBSE, ICSE, state and international boards using academy’s content to learn.
  • At the time of registration on Khan Academy’s online platform, one can choose subjects which create a personalised dashboard for students. You can see your subjects and assigned homework in one place.
  • A student can now take brief diagnostic quizzes/tests when starting a new topic such as complex numbers in class 11th. These tests identify areas of improvement of a student and recommend lessons for exactly what one needs to learn.

How is the platform empowering parents and teachers to understand the needs of their children and students respectively and help them in boosting their learning?

Khan Academy works for teachers, students and parents. If you are a teacher or a parent, you have access to additional tools and dashboards on our site, which is optimised for mobile usage. The app and website work together seamlessly. For example, a user signed up as a teacher can assign practice exercises on the site and her students can finish them on the app. As students complete assignments, teachers get completion reports. These reports are not only real-time and simple to use, but also are powerful in helping a teacher to assess their students’ performance. The reports make it possible for a teacher to identify the most challenging problems for their class and the learning gaps/needs of individual students.

On what parameters, Khan Academy recruits developers, teachers, designers, strategists, scientists, and content specialists, to ensure world-class content to learners ensures the selection?

Khan Academy started with our founder tutoring his cousins. Several things stood out from those early days that have become core to how we build content on Khan Academy. Typically, Khan Academy content is simple, free of jargon and yet deep. Practice exercises are constructed in several ways such as multiple choice questions, free response questions and interactive graphics to help a student understand a concept deeply.

Please list the government organisations, renowned educational institutions and corporate, Khan Academy has partnered with to expand its global reach.

We are supported by Tata Trusts and Central Square Foundation in India. Khan Academy India has also been working with various state governments.

Khan Academy has partnered with the Government of Karnataka to make available educational content, including videos, exercises, articles and teacher tools, in Kannada (language). Under the partnership, Department of State Education Research & Training (DSERT, Karnataka) will create educational content in Kannada that includes 5,500+ videos and 20,000+ exercises in Math and Science, as well as dashboards, which already help millions of students and teachers around the world. These resources would be mapped to the state curriculum. We have also partnered with the Government of Rajasthan to bring personalised learning to state schools starting from this current academic year. About 2,500 students in 57 classrooms are using Khan Academy resources once a week to practice and strengthen math skills.

Shridhar University Offering Skill Oriented Courses

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digitalLEARNING Network
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shridhar university

Majority of Shridhar University students come from rural area and they look up for employment rather than startup. Since most of our students want job oriented training, we are laying emphasis on that aspect, says Brig Kartar Singh (Retd), Vice Chancellor of Shridhar University, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What interventions the Shridhar University is taking for ‘skilling’ and enhancing ’employability’ of the students?

It is a well-established fact that employment today is directly proportional to knowledge, skill and attitude popularly known as KSA. While a student is put through the prescribed “knowledge” capsule through the prescribed syllabus, he is not given any particular skills as formal input. We, at Shridhar University, conduct “Skill” capsule to include:

  • Soft Skill including communication skills.
  • Social Skills.
  • General knowledge and environmental skills.

As far as “attitude” is concerned it is developed through actual conduct and formal lectures by senior specialists and psychologists.

What are the initiatives Shridhar University has undertaken in the Student Startup domain?

Majority of our students come from rural area and they look up for employment rather than startup. However, we do realise that as a higher educational Institute we should look into this aspect. As we are finding that most of our students want job-oriented training we are laying emphasis on that aspect presently. In case, the need arises, we will take initiatives towards Startup.

Many countries have started introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI), Coding etc. in the curriculum. What initiatives is the Shridhar University undertaking to make students competent with the emerging technological trend?

Shridhar University is a technology and livelihood-oriented university. As far as technology is concerned we are having collaboration with Computer Aided Designs (CAD) as also we teach cloud computing techniques. However, we have not yet reached the state of AI, and virtual reality level. We do cater for practical, livelihood related and daily useable technology needs as part of our teaching. We teach web designing, CAD and software programmers related to daily and domestic use.

Internship plays a vital role in enhancing the employability of students. Highlight the initiatives Shridhar University has undertaken to facilitate internship for students to provide them hands-on experience within a corporate working environment?

This is our strongest core strength. We conduct internship with industry for a full semester. These internships are conducted with popular names which also help in giving us offer letter during the internship.

Types of Internships Conducted:

Agriculture Students: These students get a RAWE (Rural Agriculture Work Experience) with Krishi Vikas Kendra and rural agriculture based companies in our own States. They see the students working for full semester (nearly six months). Depending upon their performance they give offer letter. Our first B.Sc (Agriculture) has got 100 per cent employment.

Diploma Courses: Our Diploma and post-Diploma courses do a PDPT Training with Government and semi-Government coal fields and during this training they are offered job based on three-month training with the company. Our Diploma – Mining students find nearly 100 percent employment in the coal industry immediately after passing out.

Hotel Management Courses: We do internship, pre-placement training and finally placement training with UEI Global an international brand in hospitality management. Majority of our students find job as per their capability and choice with the help of internship training.

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“Shridhar University is a technology and livelihood-oriented university. As far as technology is concerned we are having collaboration with CAD and also teach cloud computing techniques”

 

Atal Innovation Mission: Envisaging Innovation Among Youth

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digitalLEARNING Network
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R Ramanna

The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is a flagship initiative of the Prime Minister of India, set up by NITI Aayog to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the length and breadth of the country, says R Ramanan, Mission Director – ATAL Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Government of India, in an interview with Rajbala of Elets News Network (ENN).

Technological innovations play an important role in fostering productivity gains and economic growth. What sort of innovation model do we need to adopt for inclusive growth in the country?

Technology is evolving rapidly in multiple areas including software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Mobility, Inter of Things, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Cloud services, Bitech etc. More importantly they are fusing together to create new application and also creating new disruptive and innovative emerging business models. This is enabling the leveraging of technology to new services, new entrepreneurial ventures in the rural and deprived sections of society by not only empowering them to pursue new livelihoods, improve productivity, but also to access markets that were conventionally thought beyond their reach. For instance, cloud services can enable people in villages and hilly districts to access the country or even global markets for their farm produce or export of their handicrafts and thus can change their economic status as well as integration into society. There is a huge opportunity therefore in leveraging technology for inclusive growth both from an economic perspective as well as from a social impact perspective.

Atal Innovation Mission has two core functions- Entrepreneurship promotion and Innovation promotion. Please describe in brief

The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is a flagship initiative of the PM of India, set up by NITI Aayog to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the length and breadth of the country.

AIM is also envisaged as an umbrella innovation organisation that would play an instrumental role in alignment of innovation policies between central, state and sectoral innovation schemes, incentivising establishment of an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship at various levels higher secondary schools, science, engineering and higher academic institutions, and SME industry / corporate levels.

To foster curiosity, creativity and imaginations in young minds, Atal Tinkering Laboratories were established by AIM. What are the features of ATL?

At the school level, AIM is setting up Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) in schools across all 700+ districts across the country. These ATLs are dedicated innovation workspaces of 1,000-1,500 square feet where latest technologies like 3D Printers, Robotics, Internet of Things (IOT), Miniaturised electronics do it yourself kits are installed using a grant of Rs 20 Lakhs from the government so that students from Grade VI to Grade XII can tinker with these technologies and learn to create innovative solutions using these technologies, thereby creating a problem solving, innovative mind set within thousands of students across the country. To date, 941 schools have already been selected for ATL. Additionally it is expected that over 2000 schools would have been selected for ATL Grants before the end of this financial year.

Every school would have an ATL In charge appointed by the school as well as mentors associated to mentor the ATL students. Over 600+ ATL in charges have received training through AIM and its partners. AICTE is partnering with AIM to ensure that the closest universities to a school can also mentor ATL students.

Atal Innovation Tinkering challenges are regularly held in the school as well as by AIM every month to ensure students active involvement in creating innovative solutions to solve problems in their community and in the country.

Recently the ATAL Tinkering Marathon was held in which an estimated 30000+ students have participated and 650+ of the best innovation entries have been submitted in which the Top 100 innovation entries are being showcased in the Atal Tinkering Summit to be held in New Delhi in early 2018, and the Top 30 of these innovations will receive special recognition.

What is the vision?

The vision is to have every school have access to at least one or more Atal Tinkering Labs in each district of the country, as well as to scale the same up with the help of state education ministries across the length and breadth of the country. Also Government / Govt Aided schools, and Girls schools, North East and Hilly District schools get a special preference in the consideration of ATL selections.

The Atal Tinkering Labs has created much enthusiasm and energy in the schools and students and a Balanced Score Card based approach has been designed to monitor and measure the outcomes of the same.

What are the plans to scale-up support and re-enable to establish incubation centres under AIM?

At the university, SME and Corporate industry levels, AIM is setting up world-class Atal Incubators (AICs) that would trigger and enable successful growth of sustainable startups in every sector /state of the country, thereby promoting entrepreneurs and job creators in the country addressing both commercial and social entrepreneurship opportunities in India and applicable globally. AIM is also providing scale up support to existing incubators for scaling up their operations.

AIM is providing a grant of up to Rs 10 crores to successful applicants for setting up Greenfield incubators or scaling up existing ones. The idea is that every one of the 110 named smart cities and the top 5-10 educational / industrial institutions of every State should aspire to have a world class incubator that will provide the youth / startup communities in the universities / industries opportunity to create new startups.

Till date 19 Atal Incubators have been selected. Before the end of 2017-2018 we would have 50+ Atal
Incubators selected. Women led incubators and entrepreneurial startups are strongly encouraged by
AIM.

Again here, scale up with the help of other ministries / states / sectors / public sector organizations would be crucial to create thousands of job creators in India.

How can we strengthen entrepreneurship and create more skilling opportunities in the country?

To promote specific product innovations with social / economic impact, AIM will be launching Atal Vikas Challenges / Atal Grand Challenges in specific areas / sectors of national importance such as Affordable Housing, Rural Microfinance Fintech innovations, Universal drinking water, Swaach Bharat / Swaasth Bharat using Robotics / IOT technologies, Renewal and Clean Energy, Universal Drinking water, Augmented and Virtual reality based distance Education, Battery Technologies etc..

The successful applicants will get a grant of up to Rs 1 crore for Atal Vikas Challenges and up to Rs 30 crores for Atal Grand Challenges.

AIM is also partnering with corporates and other institutions to launch such challenges to stimulate new
product / service development in various sectors. For example the recently held AIM-Yes Bank
Transformation series 2017 Smart Agri Nation challenge had 27000 students from B Schools of India
participating in the same with high quality presentations on the same.

Share the initiatives and schemes introduced under Atal Innovation Mission?

In addition to the above mentioned schemes, to enable a supporting ecosystem of innovation, AIM is setting up one of the largest Mentoring networks in India called Mentor India from the professional and industry community who can help mentor students at Atal Tinkering Labs and AIC Incubators / startups.

Over 4,000+ mentors have already registered and they will be allocated to various ATLs / AICs.

Also a number of corporate / MNC organizations have volunteered to adopt ATLs/AICs in their vicinities to ensure close mentoring and success of these initiatives.

We will be launching new initiatives like mobile Atal Tinkering Labs, ATL Community Tinkering Labs to enable access to these labs to greater number of students and schools in rural areas during the coming year.

Blurb: “The vision is to have every school have access to at least one or more Atal Tinkering Labs in each district of the country, as well as to scale the same up with the help of state education ministries across the length and breadth of the country.”

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