Atal Innovation Mission teams up with other ministries and partners

NITI Aayog’s flagship Atal Innovation Mission, (AIM) is on full swing to keep the entrepreneurial spirit high across the country by teaming up with other Ministeries and partners to support Startups with COVID-19 innovative Solutions and to further fight Covid- 19 pandemic as the Covid-19 pandemic and economic shutdowns are dealing a severe blow on world economy.

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The Mission coordinated and concluded a series of virtual COVID-19 Demo-Days- an initiative to identify promising start-ups with potential Covid-19 innovations to further help them deploy and scale-up their solutions nationwide.

The initiative was launched in partnership with other government bodies including Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Department of Biotechnology (DBT); Department of Science and Technology (DST), Startup India, AGNIi, and other Ministries under the direction of Principal Scientific Adviser to GoI.

Over 1,000 COVID-19 related start-ups from a diverse set of categories including curative, preventive and assistive solutions were put through two rounds of evaluation, from which more than 70 start-ups were shortlisted for the Virtual COVID-19 Demo Days. These start-ups will receive support in the form of funding, access to manufacturing abilities, supply chain and logistics and finding the right vendors and mentors.

A total of nine DemoDays for Medical Devices, PPE, Sanitization, Technology solutions etc were held and led by Mission Director AIM, NITI Aayog R. Ramanan.

The joint initiative is expected to provide a much-needed fillip to the India’s mobilization efforts relating to all COVID-19 related products / services / solutions and give the start-up ecosystem an effective platform to contribute during the current scenario.