Lok Sabha Question No. 3582 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-17
Subject: Atal Innovation Mission
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: Diya Kumari, Kuruva Gorantla Madhav

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3582 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17.03.2021

## ATAL INNOVATION MISSION

## 3582. MS. DIYA KUMARI: SHRI KURUVA GORANTLA MADHAV:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of schools selected in Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh under Atal Innovation Mission;
- (b) the number of schools that received grants for setting up Atal Tinkering Labs under the said Mission;
- (c) the details of procedure of selection and the timeframe of the grant made available to the selected schools;
- (d) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  bring  Rajsamand  (Rajasthan)  and  Anantpur (Andhra Pradesh) district under the said scheme; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a) Atal  Innovation Mission ('AIM') is Government of India's endeavour to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Its objective is to serve as a platform for promotion of world-class Innovation Hubs, Grand Challenges, Start-up businesses and other  self-employment  activities,  particularly  in  technology  driven  areas.  AIM  has been  launched  to  create  an  innovation  and  entrepreneurial  ecosystem  in  India  by establishing  new  incubation  centres,  scaling  up  established  incubation  centres  and setting up Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) in schools.
- (b) Till date, a total of 7138 schools have received the ATL Grant-In-Aid. The state-wise list is attached at 'Annexure A' .
- (c) Atal Innovation Mission is setting up Atal Tinkering Labs in schools selected through an  application  and  selection  process,  followed  by  compliance  and  due  diligence process. After the completion of necessary compliance and due diligence process, the ATL grant-in-aid is sanctioned to the school, subject to budgetary allocation.

| Number of schools selected in Rajasthan      | -   |   723 |
|----------------------------------------------|-----|-------|
| Number of schools selected in Andhra Pradesh | -   |  1040 |

(d) & (e) The number ATLs in schools in the abovementioned districts are:

| District (State)          |   No. of schools selected |   No. of schools funded |
|---------------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------|
| Rajsamand (Rajasthan)     |                         9 |                       4 |
| Anantpur (Andhra Pradesh) |                        50 |                      26 |

## Number of funded ATL schools in each State/UTs

| State/UT                   |   No. of Schools |
|----------------------------|------------------|
| Andaman And Nicobar Island |               10 |
| Andhra Pradesh             |              570 |
| Arunachal Pradesh          |               30 |
| Assam                      |              280 |
| Bihar                      |               82 |
| Chandigarh                 |               18 |
| Chhattisgarh               |              304 |
| Dadra And Nagar Haveli     |                3 |
| Delhi                      |              192 |
| Goa                        |               17 |
| Gujarat                    |              501 |
| Haryana                    |              291 |
| Himachal Pradesh           |               96 |
| Jammu And Kashmir          |               70 |
| Jharkhand                  |               92 |
| Karnataka                  |              577 |
| Kerala                     |              326 |
| Madhya Pradesh             |              424 |
| Maharashtra                |              792 |
| Manipur                    |               71 |
| Meghalaya                  |               12 |
| Mizoram                    |               22 |
| Nagaland                   |               23 |
| Odisha                     |              258 |
| Puducherry                 |               17 |
| Punjab                     |              168 |
| Rajasthan                  |              329 |
| Sikkim                     |               25 |
| Tamil Nadu                 |              495 |
| Telangana                  |              230 |
| Tripura                    |               14 |
| Uttar Pradesh              |              608 |
| Uttarakhand                |               59 |
| West Bengal                |              132 |
| Grand Total                |             7138 |