India to establish 50,000 Atal Tinkering Labs in next 5 years to boost innovation

About 50, 000 Atal Tinkering Labs will be created in the coming five years to foster scientific thinking in students. Besides this, the government is planning to set up five national training centres with global expertise.

A total of 50,000 Atal Tinkering Labs to be established in the country in the next five years with the idea of cultivating a scientific temper in young minds. While presenting Budget 2025 Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the Atal tinkering labs will help in providing the scientific temper in youths.

Along with it, five national centres for training would also be set up with the expertise of global experts. The tinkering labs will help in research in the STEM field where students can practise oin new ideas and approaches.

The Indian government will also launch the Bhartiya Bhasha Pushtak scheme with the objective of providing a digital form of indigenous language books that will remain helpful for schools and higher education.

The finance minister also emphasised the importance of infrastructure in educational institutes that will be created in five IITs. Atal Innovation Mission is a flagship program of the Indian government, which aims at building and nurturing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. The mission has been constituted through NITI Aayog. ATL is a workspace where young minds can shape their ideas through hands-on learning and innovation.

The objectives of the AIM are to create and promote an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country via interventions at school, university, research institutions, MSME and industry levels.