• Noted socio-technologist, Dr Chintan Vaishnav has been appointed the mission director of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), the government’s flagship initiative under NITI Aayog. 
• Vaishnav will take over from Ramanathan Ramanan later this month. 
• Ramanan has been leading AIM as its first mission director since June 2017. 
• Vaishnav is currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US. He holds a PhD in technology, management, and policy from MIT.

Atal Innovation Mission

• AIM’s mission is to create and promote a vibrant ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country.
• Over the past four years, since its inception, AIM’s various initiatives have achieved notable successes. So far, AIM has established 72,59 Atal Tinkering Labs in schools across 650 districts, providing over 3.5 million students access to emerging technologies.