Army Institute of Technology, Pune to host MHRD-AICTE Regional Mentoring Session
Pune, July 24, 2019: Army Institute of Technology, Pune, under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and AICTE is hosting the Regional Mentoring Session for Proof of Concept (PoC) for innovative ideas, and the orientation session on Institution’s Innovation Council 2.0 and Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020 on Friday, 26th July 2019 at the institute campus.
The Chief Guest for the event is Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD. Mr Sanjay Inamdar, Chairman, AICTE Start-up Committee will also grace the Inauguration ceremony. More than 150 student teams will participate in POC regional mentoring sessions and about 100 faculties from different Institutes are expected to participate in IIC2.0 & ARIIA 2020 orientation session from Maharashtra and Goa region. The orientation sessions will be taken by Shri Dipan Sahu, IIC National Coordinator along with Pankaj Pandey, IIC Zonal coordinator for South- West India and Mr. Sarim Moin, Innovation Officer, MHRD. The mentoring session for students will be conducted by the team from Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) led by Dr. Satya Ranjan Acharya.
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has setup MHRD’s Innovation Cell (MIC) at All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi to undertake policy and program initiatives towards building and streamlining innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). Among the various programs that have been initiated by MHRD’s Innovation Cell and AICTE, salient ones are Smart India Hackathon, National Student Start-up Policy, Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievement (ARIIA) and Setting up Institutions Innovation Councils (IICs) in HEIs.
Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Govt. of India to systematically rank all major Higher Educational Institutions and Universities in India on indicators related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” amongst students and faculties IIC 2.0 edition is an improvised version with better features of incentive and rating mechanism and flexible calendar of activities. It is an enabling platform for IICs in network to leverage the opportunity through collaboration, convergence and connection.
