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AIC-RMP

(AIC) Atal Incubation Centre- Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini (RMP) Foundation has been set up in alignment with Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog to nurture, handhold and support New Age Entrepreneurs for New Age India. The focus is on job creation through entrepreneurship in the domains of Agriculture, Education & ICT. It also aims to create & support sustainable business models at grassroot level including social enterprises.

Vision

To inspire, nurture and handhold New Age Entrepreneurs for New India by steering the power of innovation and entrepreneurship.


Mission

  • To assist, mentor & support startups or budding organizations focused on solving people’s problems.
  • To motivate youngsters and entrepreneurs to innovate, to build and run successful working (business) models and to use information communication technology to support and strengthen self help groups, cooperatives, agriculture sector, education sector and social sector.
  • To build a credible and sustainable world class social impact incubator.

Preferred Sectors

Agriculture

Social Impact

Information, Communication & Technology

Objectives

  • To conduct ideation to enterprise workshops at colleges, Universities as well as common training centres to promote entrepreneurship and innovation, across the country but with a specific focus on Maharashtra.
  • To organize regular interactions, formal and informal meets, expositions for aspiring as well as working entrepreneurs, startups, innovators to help them connect with academia, corporates, industry, funding agencies as well as relevant government and non-government officials.
  • To organize regular training and capacity building workshops for startup teams to help them understand and solve their business and ecosystem challenges.
  • To encourage and enroll senior business leaders, renowned academicians, functional and subject matter experts to mentor startups & guide during initial business challenges, to use their network to provide these startups with initial business opportunities.
  • To run sector specific accelerator programme with support from industry leaders.
  • To run academic courses, short duration workshops, training programmes and bootcamps related to startups, entrepreneurship and innovation.

About RMP

Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini (RMP) is a unique leadership development academy working since 1982. It nurtures, imparts training and builds capacity of elected representatives, social workers as well as people running institutions, organizations and startups. Additionally, RMP focuses on conducting on-the-spot studies, surveys, research and various public awakening activities.

 
It is one of its kind of such institution in the entire South-East Asia. United Nations Economic and Social Council had recognized RMP as an NGO in special consultative status in the year 2006.

Atal Innovation Mission- NITI Aayog

The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is a flagship initiative set up by the NITI Aayog to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the length and breadth of the country, based on a detailed study and deliberations on innovation and entrepreneurial needs of India in the years ahead. AIM is also envisaged as an umbrella innovation organization that would play an instrumental role in alignment of innovation policies between central, state and sectoral innovation schemes incentivizing the establishment and promotion of an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship.