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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