IIT-M aces innovations ranking, 7 IITs in top 10

NEW DELHI: IIT Madras, Bombay and Delhi have emerged as the top three institutes of national importance in the ‘Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020’.
The rankings were released on Tuesday. The Institute of Chemical Technology, Maharashtra; Panjab University, Chandigarh; and Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Haryana bagged the top three slots in the government and government-aided universities category. Seven IITs figure among the top 10 institutes. Around 674 institutions had participated in the ARIIA Rankings this year compared with 496 Institutions last year.
The rankings were released by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu in the presence of Ramesh Pokhriyal, Union minister for education and Sanjay Dhotre, junior minister of education.
The ARIIA was instituted in 2019 by the ministry of education to rank educational institutions and universities primarily on innovationrelated indicators. The six parameters include programmes and activities on IPR, innovation, start-up and entrepreneurship, pre incubation and incubation infrastructure, annual budget spent on promoting and supporting innovation and entrepreneurship activities, courses on innovation, IPR and entrepreneurship development, intellectual property, technology transfer and commercialisation and successful start-ups and funding innovation and start-ups.
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