Atal Innovation Mission opens applications for 500 new ATLs in J&K under Frontier Region Program

• Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), flagship initiative of NITI Aayog, has opened applications for 500 new Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) across the UT of Jammu & Kashmir under its Frontier Region Program (FRP).
• Implemented in convergence with the School Education Department, Government of J&K and the University of Kashmir — a first-of-its-kind tri-partite institutional model for a frontier UT.
• Relevance: links GS-II (governance, federalism, J&K) and GS-III (S&T, innovation ecosystem, school-level R&D).