NITI Aayog launched the country’s first vernacular innovation programme (VIP) which will enable innovators and entrepreneurs in India to have access to the ecosystem in 22 scheduled languages.
Context
NITI Aayog launched the country’s first vernacular innovation programme (VIP) which will enable innovators and entrepreneurs in India to have access to the ecosystem in 22 scheduled languages.
Key-points
- The initiative under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), aimed at empowerment of innovators and entrepreneurs.
- It will build the necessary capacity for the VIP for which a vernacular task force (VTF) will be trained in each of the 22 scheduled languages.
- Each task force will comprise vernacular language teachers, subject experts, technical writers and the leadership of regional Atal incubation centres (AICs).
- This programme may well place India globally as the first nation where an innovation ecosystem catering to 22 languages and English is being developed.
- The programme will get rolling with a collaboration involving the design department of IIT Delhi to coach the VTF in design thinking and entrepreneurship and the adaptation of these subjects in the 22 languages and cultures.
- Furthermore, industry mentors have joined hands to lend design thinking expertise, and CSR sponsors have agreed to support the programme.
- On completing the training of the task force over the period of December 2021 to April 2022, the ecosystem will be opened to vernacular innovators.
NITI Aayog
- National Institution for Transforming India, better known as NITI Aayog, was formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet on 1 January 2015.
- NITI Aayog was constituted to replace the Planning Commission, which had been instituted in 1950.
- Today, it is the premier policy think tank of the Government of India, providing directional and policy inputs.
- Apart from designing strategic and long-term policies and programmes for the Government of India, NITI Aayog also provides relevant technical advice to the Centre, States, and Union Territories.
- The Governing Council of NITI Aayog is chaired by the Hon'ble Prime Minister and comprises Chief Ministers of all the States and Union Territories with legislatures and Lt Governors of other Union Territories.
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