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Atal Innovation Mission (Atal Incubation Centres, Atal Community Innovation Centres, Atal Tinkering Labs)

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Status

Status not published

As of 14 August 2026 the AIM website states: 'Dear Applicants, please note that the application portal for ATL, AIC and ACIC are not currently open.' AIM runs periodic Expression of Interest calls; no open call was listed at the time of verification.

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Amount
Not published

AIM funds institutions (incubators, community innovation centres, school tinkering labs) rather than making direct grants to individual startups; startups benefit indirectly through the 72 Atal Incubation Centres. Per-centre grant ceilings are set in each Expression of Interest. No amount is published on the AIM homepage and the programme pages were not reachable at the time of verification, so amounts are recorded as null.

Funder

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Government of India

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — As of 14 August 2026 the AIM website states: 'Dear Applicants, please note that the application portal for ATL, AIC and ACIC are not currently open.' AIM runs periodic Expression of Interest calls; no open call was listed at the time of verification.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

AIM's direct beneficiaries are host institutions (universities, institutions, corporates, NGOs) that set up Atal Incubation Centres, Atal Community Innovation Centres or Atal Tinkering Labs. Startups access support through the 72 operating AICs, which report 3,500+ startups supported and 32,000+ jobs created. DPIIT recognition is not a stated prerequisite, though individual AICs may require it for onward central schemes such as SISFS.

How to apply

  1. Monitor aim.gov.in for the next Expression of Interest for AIC / ACIC / ATL. — link
  2. Institutions apply through the AIM application portal when a call opens.
  3. Individual startups seeking support should instead approach an existing Atal Incubation Centre directly.

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · DPIIT recognition for Indian startups, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://aim.gov.in/

"Dear Applicants, please note that the application portal for ATL, AIC and ACIC are not currently open."

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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