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Detailed explanation-1: -Atal Innovation Mission launches women centric challenges under ANIC programme. New Delhi: Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), set up under NITI Aayog, on Wednesday launched women-centric challenges under phase-II of the second edition of the Atal New India Challenge (ANIC).

Detailed explanation-2: -AIM’s objective is to develop new programmes and policies for fostering innovation in different sectors of the economy, provide platforms and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders, and create an umbrella structure to oversee the innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem of the country.

Detailed explanation-3: -Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog is Government of India’s flagship initiative to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country and was setup in 2016.

Detailed explanation-4: -Here are the achievements of the Atal Mission: Of the 102 shortlisted incubated startups across 23 states, 47 secured funding. Over 600 startups have started operations through the mission’s support. The mission has organised 350 training programs and 900 events to support entrepreneurship and innovation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chintan Vaishnav. Dr. Chintan Vaishnav is a socio-technologist, an engineer trained to design and build large-scale systems that possess both human as well as technological complexities.