ATAL COMMUNITY INNOVATION CENTRE

About: 

• This initiative has been launched under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), a flagship initiative of NITI Aayog. 
  
  
• The purpose of this new initiative is to make innovation ecosystem socially inclusive as well as to ensure equitable distribution of infrastructure for innovation across the country. 
  
  
• The Atal Community Innovation Centre has been launched to focus on the 484 backward districts where the innovation infrastructure is very weak. 
  
  
• The new program has been specifically designed for underserved, unserved regions of Tier 1 or Metro cities, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, Smart Cities, Aspirational districts, North-East, Jammu and Kashmir as well as the rural and tribal regions of India.