NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission launched the second edition of the Atal New India Challenge (ANIC 2.0).

Atal New India Challenge (ANIC)

• Atal New India Challenge aims to seek, select, support and nurture technology-based innovations that solve sectoral challenges of national importance and societal relevance.

The vision of ANIC is two-fold:

i) Help create products from existing technologies that solve problems of national importance and societal relevance (productisation).

ii) Help new solutions find markets and early customers (commercialisation) in the context of India.

• One of the primary goals of the ANIC programme is to incentivise innovations in areas critical to India’s development and growth – education, health, water and sanitation, agriculture, food processing, housing, energy, mobility, space application, etc.

• Researchers have long talked of the “valleys of death” at the early stage and at the commercialisation stage in taking innovations to the market.  

• The Atal New India Challenge aims to address this by supporting innovators scale over the risks associated with access to resources for testing, piloting and market creation. 

• ANIC solicits innovations in the prototype stage and supports the selected start-ups through to the commercialisation stage over a course of 12–18 months with a funding of up to Rs 1 crore along with other associated support from the AIM’s innovation ecosystem.

The second edition of ANIC concentrates on 18 challenges from seven sectors: 

i) E-mobility 

ii) Road Transportation 

iii) Space Technology and Applications

iv) Medical Devices and Equipment 

v) Sanitation Technology and Equipment

vi) Waste Management

vii) Agriculture.

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