Who among the following has recently launched Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) in New Delhi?

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Who: Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
What: launches Atal Community Innovation Centre
When: published on 31st July 2019

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas &Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today launched Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) in New Delhi, to encourage the spirit of innovation at the community level. This initiative aims to encourage the spirit of innovation through solution-driven design thinking to serve society.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Pradhan said, Atal Innovation Mission has a key role to perform in order to achieve the target of five trillion dollar economy by 2025. He urged the NITI Aayog to open innovation Centres in all Gram Panchayats of the country to promote local innovation.Sh Pradhan said innovation is part of every Indian’s daily affairs and thereis need to support and promote them.He said that traditional and conventional knowledge available in the country needs to be supported and brought into the mainstream, through innovative mechanism.

Laudingthe effortsof NITI Aayog in coming up with the idea of ACICs, the Minister said that they will make available cutting-edge innovation platforms across all corners of our country, with a focus on Aspirational Districts, Tier 2 and 3 cities and to North-east and J&K which will give a fillip to the skill development and employment opportunities in these areas. ACIC’s grassroot-level approach shall focus on a community oriented problem solving through small ideas with a big impact. ACICs will become a conduit for CSR funding by private and public sector firms in addition to direct funding through Atal Innovation Mission(AIM).

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https://www.khabarindia.in/dharmendra-pradhan-launches-atal-community-innovation-centre/