Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements  2020. 

Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements  2020.

Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper II: Governance

Context: The Vice-President of India virtually announced Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements  2020.

More on the news: 

  • The ranking called upon researchers and scientists to pay greater attention to agriculture and come up with innovations to address the problems faced by farmers.
  • This year, a special category for higher educational institutions for women has been introduced to encourage women and bring gender parity in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship.
  • A National Research Foundation (NRF) will be set up for invigorating innovation and research under the recently released Nation Education Policy (NEP).

About ARIIA:

  • Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.
  • It aims to systematically rank all major higher educational institutions and universities in India on indicators related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” amongst students and faculties.
  • Major Indicators for consideration
    • Budget & Funding Support.
    • Infrastructure & Facilities.
    • Awareness, Promotions & support for Idea Generation & Innovation.
    • Promotion & Support for Entrepreneurship Development.
    • Innovative Learning Methods & Courses.
    • Intellectual Property Generation, Technology Transfer & Commercialization.
    • Innovation in Governance of the Institution.
  • Significance:
    • To inspire Indian institutions to reorient their mind-set and build ecosystems to encourage high quality research, innovation and entrepreneurship.
    • To focus on the quality (more than quantity) of innovations and will try to measure the real impact created by these innovations nationally and internationally.
    • To set tone and direction for institutions for future development for making them globally competitive and in the forefront of innovation.
MHRD’s Innovation Cell:
  • It is an attempt to make Innovation an integral part of the Higher Education System.
  • It will ensure that various activities and hackathons pertaining to Innovation and entrepreneurship are taken forward at Higher Educational Institute level in a very systematic way.

The 2020 ranking:

  • This year, ARIIA announcement included classification of the institutes into two broad categories and six sub categories.
  • Among these, IIT Madras bagged the top position under the category of Institutes of National Importance, Central Universities, and Centrally Funded Technical Institutes.

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