The Government of India is encouraging the schools to provide exposure to science and technology to students so that they can be exposed to futuristic technology platforms. Government has set up the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) at NITI Aayog. The objective of establishing AIM is to create scientific temper and cultivate the spirit of curiosity and innovation among young minds. In Schools, AIM facilitates to set up a network of Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL). The vision of Atal Tinkering Lab initiative is to ‘Cultivate 1 Million children in India as Neoteric Innovators’. The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing, rapid calculations, measurements etc.
A total of 8878 schools have been selected and 3020 schools have been given the ATL grant in aid for the establishment of ATL. As on date, 44 schools across the state of Bihar have made ATLs operational.
