NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission today signed a Statement of Intent with SAP, a tech company, to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.
As part of the agreement, SAP will adopt 100 Atal Tinkering Laboratories for five years to nurture science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning among secondary school children across the country.
The program aims to enable students to learn advanced technology topics relevant to digital transformation.
Acknowledging the importance of such collaborations, CEO of NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant said, India’s growth for the next few decades will depend on the innovations coming out of these tinkering labs.
Till date, Atal Innovation Mission has already announced selection of 2441 schools across India to establish Atal Tinkering Labs. More than 50 thousand school students have been engaged in such labs last year.
The goal is to expand their reach to every district and set up over 30,000 labs across the country over the next three years.
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