NITI Ayog launched Atal New India Challenge to support innovators

NITI Ayog launched Atal New India Challenge to support innovators

With the objective to promote innovations and entrepreneurship, Niti Aayog has launched Atal New India Challenge under the Atal Innovation Mission(AIM). The main focus is to solve the problems in the identified focus area, which would improve the quality of lives of citizens along with generating employment.

The AIM has started this initiative in collaboration with five ministries, Railway Board, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

Under Atal New India Challenge, AIM would invite innovators to design products using pioneering technologies across 17 identified focus areas. These areas are critical to India’s growth such as housing, hygiene, health, energy, and water.

Focus areas for Atal New India Challenge:-

  • Climate-smart agriculture
  • Fog vision system for road and rail
  • Prevention of Rail failure using emerging technologies
  • Predictive maintenance of Rolling Stock
  • Alternate fuel based transportation
  • Smart Mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • Safe transport
  • Instant Portable Water Quality Testing
  • Affordable Desalination / Recycling Technology
  • Waste management recycling/reuse
  • Garbage composition devices
  • Quality of compost
  • Decentralized composting
  • Mixing blades for composting
  • Waste in public spaces
  • Dissuading public littering

Important Features  of Atal New India Challenge:

  1. The applicant who displays the potential to manufacture a market-ready product will be granted up to 10 crores.
  2. Various support to the winning applicant in terms of technical support, proper mentorships on marketing strategy by incubators.
  3. To enable access resources for piloting, testing, and market creation.
  4. A great opportunity open to all the innovators, startups, MSMEs and R & D institutions.

For more information and to register yourself, visit: http://aim.gov.in/atal-new-India-challenge.php
The last date of Application is 30th August 2018.
Need any help regarding this, visit our website: https://startuplauncher.org/

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