Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog today launched the Women centric challenges under the 2nd edition of Atal New India Challenge

Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog today launched the Women centric challenges under the 2nd edition of Atal New India Challenge (ANIC). The Women centric challenges address the major issues faced by women from all spheres of life.
These include driving women hygiene through innovation, innovations to improve women’s safety, professional networking opportunities for women, innovations that make working mothers’ life better, and easing the life of Rural Women.
Addressing the gathering, CEO NITI Aayog Parmeswaran Iyer said that these challenges are thought provoking and can lead to major innovations and solutions. He said that NITI Aayog and AIM focus on women empowerment.
The Aayog highlighted that ANIC aims to seek, select, support and nurture technology-based innovations that solve sectoral challenges of national importance and societal relevance through a grant-based mechanism of up to one crore rupees.