Atal Innovation Mission launches women centric challenges under ANIC program

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Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog launched the Women centric challenges under the 2nd edition of Atal New India Challenge (ANIC) on 9 November. 

Important facts

• Women centric challenges address the major issues faced by women from all walks of life.

• These include promoting women's hygiene through innovation, innovations to improve women's safety, professional networking opportunities for women, innovations that improve the lives of working mothers and make the lives of rural women easier.

• It aims to seek, select, support and nurture technology-based innovations that solve regional challenges of national importance and social relevance through a grant-based arrangement of up to Rs 1 crore.

• ANIC's women centric challenges address the major issues faced by women from all walks of life.

• These include promoting women's hygiene through innovation, innovations to improve women's safety, professional networking opportunities for women, innovations that improve the lives of working mothers and make the lives of rural women easier.

• NITI Aayog currently runs the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP), which was launched in 2018, to help women become entrepreneurs, scale up their innovations and create sustainable, long-term strategies for their businesses.

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

• This is an important initiative taken by the Government of India to promote the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country.

Objective of AIM

• Developing new programs and policies to promote innovation in various sectors of the economy

• Providing forums and opportunities for collaboration for various stakeholders

• To create an umbrella structure to create awareness and monitor the innovation ecosystem of the country.