Lok Sabha Question No. 3632 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-08
Subject: Atal Innovation Mission
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: George Baker, ANIL SHIROLE, PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3632 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.08.2018

## ATAL INNOVATION MISSION

## 3632. SHRI GEORGE BAKER:

SHRI ANIL SHIROLE:

SHRI PRABHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA:

Will the Minister of Planning be pleased to state:

- (a) the salient features of the Atal Innovation Mission
- (b) the details of the funds sanctioned, allocated and utilized under this mission since its inception across the country, State/UT-wise
- (c) the details of the targets set and achievments made under this mission so far;
- (d) whether the Government has seen steady improvement since its inception across the country; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor along with the action taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

ANSWER (a) to (e):

## Salient Features of Atal Innovation Mission

Atal  Innovation  Mission  (AIM)  is  Government  of  India's  flagship  initiative  to  promote  a  culture  of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. AIM's objective is to develop new programmes and policies for  fostering  innovation  in  different  sectors  of  the  economy,  provide  platform  and  collaboration opportunities  for  different  stakeholders,  create  awareness  and  create  an  umbrella  structure  to  oversee innovation ecosystem of the country.

## Objective

Atal Innovation Mission's (AIM) objective is to serve as a platform for promotion and facilitation of  Innovation  Hubs,  Innovation  Challenges,  Start-up  businesses  and  other  self-employment  activities, particularly in technology driven areas.

## The Atal Innovation Mission has two core functions:

-  Entrepreneurship promotion wherein innovators would be supported and mentored to become successful entrepreneurs through Startup mentoring;
-  Innovation promotion: to provide a platform where innovative ideas are generated and nurtured for deployment;

AIM's current flagship schemes include establishing Atal Tinkering Labs and Atal Incubation Centers, providing  scaling  up  support  to  Established  Incubation  Centers,  and  finding  ultra-low  cost  solution  to India's  most  intractable  problems  through  Atal  New  India  Challenges  in  partnership  with  5  Union Government  ministries.  Additionally,  other  programs  to  support  innovation  in  the  country  are  being designed.

## (1) Atal Tinkering Labs:

ATL is a work space where young minds can give shape to their ideas through hands on do-it-yourself mode; and learn innovation skills. Young children will get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand the concepts of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. ATL would contain educational and  learning  'do  it  yourself'  kits  and  equipment  on  -  science,  electronics,  robotics,  open  source microcontroller boards, sensors and 3D printers and computers. Other desirable facilities include meeting rooms and video conferencing facility.

In order to foster inventiveness among students, ATL can conduct different activities ranging from regional and national level competitions, exhibitions, workshops on problem solving, designing and fabrication of products, lecture series etc. at periodic intervals.

## Financial Support

AIM will provide grant-in-aid of Rs. 20 Lakh to each school that includes a one-time establishment cost of Rs. 10 lakh and operational expenses of Rs. 10 lakh for a maximum period of 5 years to each ATL. The financial details and targets are placed in Annexure 1.

Till date, AIM has selected 5441 schools  for setting up of ATLs in their institution. Out of these, 3000 were selected in June-2018 and are yet to complete their compliance stage for getting the funds; 1877 schools have  already  been  given  Grant-in-aid  to  setup  ATL  and  the  rest  are  in  the  process  of  documentary compliance and verification. The total amount disbursed towards this programme is Rs. 225.24 Cr. Statewise grant disbursement details are given below:

| State                      |   Number of Schools |   Rs. In Crores |
|----------------------------|---------------------|-----------------|
| Andaman and Nicobar Island |                   3 |            0.36 |
| Andhra Pradesh             |                 144 |           17.28 |
| Arunachal Pradesh          |                  12 |            1.44 |
| Assam                      |                  46 |            5.52 |
| Bihar                      |                  39 |            4.68 |
| Chandigarh                 |                  11 |            1.32 |
| Chhattisgarh               |                  73 |            8.76 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli     |                   2 |            0.24 |
| Delhi                      |                  83 |            9.96 |
| Goa                        |                  11 |            1.32 |
| Gujarat                    |                 100 |           12    |
| Haryana                    |                  79 |            9.48 |
| Himachal Pradesh           |                  22 |            2.64 |
| Jammu and Kashmir          |                  27 |            3.24 |
| Jharkhand                  |                  35 |            4.2  |
| Karnataka                  |                 145 |           17.4  |
| Kerala                     |                 160 |           19.2  |
| Madhya Pradesh             |                  98 |           11.76 |
| Maharashtra                |                 165 |           19.8  |
| Manipur                    |                  15 |            1.8  |
| Meghalaya                  |                   8 |            0.96 |
| Mizoram                    |                   9 |            1.08 |
| Nagaland                   |                   9 |            1.08 |
| Odisha                     |                  66 |            7.92 |

| Puducherry    |    5 |   0.60 |
|---------------|------|--------|
| Punjab        |   57 |   6.84 |
| Rajasthan     |   63 |   7.56 |
| Sikkim        |    9 |   1.08 |
| Tamil Nadu    |  119 |  14.28 |
| Telangana     |   47 |   5.64 |
| Tripura       |    8 |   0.96 |
| Uttar Pradesh |  133 |  15.96 |
| Uttarakhand   |   19 |   2.28 |
| West Bengal   |   55 |   6.6  |
| Grand Total   | 1877 | 225.24 |

## (2) Atal Incubation Centre:

The objective of establishing AICs would be to create incubation facilities across various parts of India with suitable  physical  infrastructure  in  terms  of  capital  equipment  and  operating  facilities,  coupled  with  the availability of sectoral experts for mentoring the start-ups, business planning support, access to seed capital, industry partners, trainings and other relevant components required for encouraging innovative start-ups. Moreover, AICs would be established in subject specific areas such as manufacturing, transport, energy, health, education, agriculture, water and sanitation etc.

## Eligibility

Entities  such  as  such  as  higher  educational  institutions,  R&D  institutes,  corporate  sector,  alternative investment funds registered with SEBI, business accelerators, group of individuals, and individuals are eligible to apply.

## Financial Support

AIM will provide a grant-in-aid of upto Rs. 10 crore for a maximum period of 5 years to cover the capital and operational expenditures to establish the AIC.

## (3) Scale-up Support to Established Incubation Centres

AIM envisages to augment capacity of the Established Incubation Centres in the country. It will provide financial scale-up support to enable Established Incubation Centres.  The scheme would radically transform the  start-up  ecosystem  in  the  country  by  upgrading  the  Established  Incubation  Centres  to  world-class standards.

## Eligibility

-  EIC must have been in operations for a minimum of three years as of 1st August 2017.
-  EIC should be registered in India as public, private or public-private partnership.

## Financial Support

AIM will provide a grant-in-aid of up to Rs. 10 crore in two or more annual instalments

## Present status of AIM Supported Incubation Centre:

AIM has shortlisted 101 applicants for its AIC and EIC programmes. Out of these, 18 incubators have already been given Grant-in-aid to establish and scale-up incubation centres, and the rest will be provided the Grant-in-aid upon successful completion of their documentary compliance and due diligence as per AIC

/  EIC Guidelines. The total amount disbursed towards this programme is Rs.49.99 Cr. State-wise grant disbursement details are given below:

| State          |   No. of Incubators |   Rs. In Cr. |
|----------------|---------------------|--------------|
| Andhra Pradesh |                   1 |         1.69 |
| Chattisgarh    |                   1 |         3.86 |
| Delhi          |                   2 |         3.98 |
| Goa            |                   1 |         1.82 |
| Gujarat        |                   1 |         3.06 |
| Karnataka      |                   2 |         5    |
| Kerala         |                   1 |         2.5  |
| Madhya Pradesh |                   1 |         1.19 |
| Maharashtra    |                   1 |         1.1  |
| Rajasthan      |                   1 |         1.58 |
| Uttar Pradesh  |                   2 |         3.69 |
| Tamil Nadu     |                   2 |        10.73 |
| Telangana      |                   2 |         9.78 |
| Grand Total    |                  18 |        49.99 |

## Details of AIM financials are as follows

| Sl. No.   | Financial Year   |   Budget Estimates |   Revised Estimates | Actual Expenditure   |
|-----------|------------------|--------------------|---------------------|----------------------|
| 1.        | 2016-17          |              154   |              128.15 | 76.33                |
| 2.        | 2017-18          |              115.5 |              150    | 138.16               |
| 3.        | 2018-19          |              200   |              200    | 88.96                |
|           | TOTAL            |              469.5 |              478.15 | 303.45*              |

-  Rs.225.24Cr has been the disbursed amount for Atal Tinkering Labs
-  Rs.49.99Cr  has  been  disbursed  towards  setting  up  Atal  Incubation  Centres  and  providing  scale-up support to Established Incubation Centres.

## Details of the targets set and achievements made under AIM so far

| Sl No.   | Name of the Initiative                 | 2016-17   | 2016-17        | 2017-18   | 2017-18        | 2018-19   | 2018-19                           |
|----------|----------------------------------------|-----------|----------------|-----------|----------------|-----------|-----------------------------------|
|          |                                        | Targets   | Achieve- ments | Targets   | Achieve- ments | Targets   | Achieve- ments (as on 30.07.2018) |
| 1.       | AIM Initiatives (Ongoing Commitments)  |           |                |           |                |           |                                   |
| (a)      | Established Incubation Centres (EICs ) | 06        | 06             | --        | --             | --        | --                                |
| (b)      | Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs)             | 457       | 331            | --        | 788            | --        | 758                               |
| (c)      | Atal Incubation Centres (AICs)         | --        | --             | 14        | 10             | --        | 02                                |
| (d)      | Atal Grand Challenges (AGCs)           | 02        | --             | 02        | --             | 02        | --                                |

## Overall impact of initiatives undertaken by AIM:

Atal Innovation Mission has been instrumental in driving a tinkering and innovation mindset across the country after successfully setting up of ATLs, AICs and EICs throughout the length and breadth of the country. While the process of setting up of the remaining centres is on-going, the country is witnessing some amazing innovations flourishing from grassroot levels.

AIM has nationwide tinkering marathon to identify the innovations coming through its ATL programme. There have been nationwide 100 remarkable innovations identified for final review of the entries received from schools where ATLs have been functioning in full-swing. Out of these 100, schools with top 30 innovations were called and lauded for their achievement at NITI Aayog in April, 2018.

Further, a broad-level research to study the impact of AIM's programmes will be conducted once the programmes are full-fledged and at least 2 year has passed after establishment and on ground operations of ATLs and AICs/EICs after setup in the country.

## Annexure 1

## Rupees in Crores