AICTE To Adopt Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs), Mentor School Students

On the occasion of Dr. BR Ambedkar Jayanti, the AICTE and the AIM announced a strategic collaboration to empower Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) established at schools across the country.

The All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) will adopt Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) established under NITI Ayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), an official statement said. On the occasion of Dr. BR Ambedkar Jayanti, the AICTE and the AIM announced a strategic collaboration to empower Atal Tinkering Labs established at schools across the country. AICTE’s Institution’s Innovation Councils (IICs) will be connected with Atal Tinkering Labs under this initiative. “The partnership offers to begin with to connect around 7200+ Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) established in schools with 2500+ Institution’s Innovation Councils (IICs) functioning in higher educational institutions spread across all the states and UTs,” the NITI Ayog said. “AICTE and AIM have developed a strategic partnership over the last couple of years. The adoption of ATLs and their students by AICTE IICs in proximity to the ATLs will greatly enhance the spurring of relevant knowledge and innovative thinking in the ATL school students leveraging the various innovation related training and innovation workshop initiatives from IICs,” R Ramanan, Mission Director Atal Innovation Mission, said.