Atal New India Challenge is an initiative by Atal Innovation Mission aimed at supporting innovators to create products/solutions based on advanced technologies in areas of national importance and social relevance through a grant-based mechanism. The vision of the Atal New India Challenge is two-fold:
(a) help create products from existing technologies relevant for national and social causes (productization);
(b) help new deep-tech products find markets and early customers (commercialization) in the context of India.
Who can apply
MSMEs
Startups
R&D organisations
Academicians, Innovators
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GUIDELINE
1. ANIC Phase 1 Results Announcement
2. ANIC Phase 1 Results
3. ANIC 1.0 Selection Summary

ATAL NEW INDIA CHALLENGE
One of Atal Innovation Mission’s primary goals is to incentivize innovation in areas critical to India’s growth, such as health, housing, hygiene, energy and water. Researchers have long talked of the ‘Valleys of Death’ at the early stage and commercialization stage in taking innovations to market. The Atal New India Challenge aims to address the second Commercialization Valley of Death, in which innovators are unable to access resources for piloting, testing, and market creation.
The Atal New India Challenge is an open call to design and demonstrate market-ready products based on cutting edge technologies in identified focus areas. Applicants showing capability, intent, and promise to be able to productize technologies will be awarded grants of upto 1 crore, strictly on a milestone basis.
Focus areas for Atal New India Challenge
In the current round of Atal New India Challenge, applicants seeking commercialization of products and technologies in the one of the following focus areas are invited to submit their proposal:
Climate-smart agriculture
Fog vision system for road and rail
Systems to predict, identify, and recognize rail failure using technologies
Predictive Maintenance of Rolling Stock
Alternate fuel based transportation
Smart Mobility
Electric Mobility
Safe transport
Instant Portable Water Quality Testing
Sustaining drinking water sources
Digital Water Management
Providing potable water to water quality affected areas
Data analytics for water governance
Mini Desalination plants in coastal areas
Grey water management
Affordable Desalination/Recycling Technology
Waste management recycling and reuse
Garbage composition devices
Quality of compost
Decentralized composting
Mixing blades for composting
Waste in public spaces
Dissuading public littering
Cleaning of Sewers and Septic Tanks
For any queries please mail at : anic-aim@gov.in
Climate-smart agriculture

Deploy products, technologies and processes (supply chains) to promote and commercialize climate-resilient agricultural practices, species, and processes
Fog vision system for road and rail

Increase deployment of technologies to reduce accidents in low visibility conditions - vehicle-attached, or improvements in street lighting infrastructure, or improved reflectors for higher pedestrian visibility, etc.
Systems to predict, identify, and recognize rail failure using technologies

Advanced technology solutions to predict and prevent rail failures viz. automated track monitoring systems, rail track health, signalling and switching technologies etc.
Alternate fuel based transportation

Deployment of technologies/products in transportation, using alternate source of power to reduce carbon emissions - including systems to integrate with existing transportation infrastructure
Smart Mobility

Use of alternate transportation mechanisms for newly urbanizing regions / smart cities
Electric Mobility

Technologies / innovations to increase share of electric vehicles in all modes of transportation
Safe transport

technologies / innovations to reduce accidents and fatalities, with special focus on two-wheelers / pedestrians
Instant Portable Water Quality Testing

Develop systems, products, technologies, or protocols to identify nature and/or concentration of biological/chemical contaminants in any given water sample
Affordable Desalination/Recycling Technology

Affordable Recycling technology - Deploy technologies or products to recycle water at household and community levels.
Waste management recycling and reuse

Deployment of technologies for waste management, e.g. solid, e-waste etc.
Garbage composition devices

Portable / handheld scanner / device that can distinguish the composition of garbage collected from households as wet or dry
Quality of compost

Portable / handheld device that can quickly determine the quality of compost (also whether the compost heap meets FCO standards)
Decentralized composting

Economical, efficient, modular, aesthetic, environment friendly and occupying minimum space arrangements / equipment / plants for decentralized composting which may be aerobic / anaerobic / vermi
Mixing blades for composting

Efficient mixing blades for small scale / household composting material
Waste in public spaces

Efficient, simple and economical methods of sweeping and sucking the littered waste in public places including narrow streets
Dissuading public littering

Efficient, simple and economical methods of identifying persons littering, raising alarm so as to dissuade the public from littering
Predictive Maintenance of Rolling Stock

Solutions to monitor the health and safety of key components of the coaches, freight cars, locomotives which includes bearing and wheels to reduce catastrophic failures leading to improved safety and operating cost.
Sustaining drinking water sources
Ensuring drinking water sustainability is of paramount importance. Sustaining the sources depends the following major aspects: (i) Source strengthening/sustainability (ii) Regular operation and maintenance and (iii) Replacing the aged infrastructure.
Suggestions are invited to
- Achieve source strengthening through innovative, measures and/or traditional water harvesting wisdom.
- Reduce the operation and maintenance cost of water supply schemes with special focus on decreasing power consumption
- Replace/repair the aging infrastructure through unique, cost effective, new/innovative technologies/methods.
Digital Water Management
IT and Mobile phones have enabled easier access to various services. How to use these technologies to solve day-to-day managerial issues to (i) assist to make district water budgets and District/Block level water managers to know on day-to-day basis, the habitation-wise quantity and quality water supplied and (ii) make every household a water smart household by informing them about the quantity and quality of water available from their nearest source to plan their daily family water budget. Ideas can be mix of technologies, management solutions, awareness games etc.
Providing potable water to water quality affected areas

A large number of habitations face ground water quality issues. The most common contaminants are arsenic, fluoride, nitrates, iron, salinity etc. In some cases, traces of heavy metals have also been reported in groundwater. Treatment processes are generally complex, involves higher cost and requires power. Please suggest technologies those have (i) cost effective & efficient (ii) lower power consumption (iii) low cost - long life membrane (iv) Affordable & scalable and (v) in-built reject management to provide potable drinking water to habitations affected with
- Arsenic
- Fluoride
- Nitrates
- Iron
- Salinity
- Heavy metals
Data analytics for water governance
Various Stake-holder Ministries of Government of India have huge individual data bases on water supply; water availability; groundwater; measures taken up for recharge; rain water harvesting; household-wise drinking water source access data; enrollment in schools etc. However, they are in individual silos. At district level, these data can be aggregated and analyzed to understand how each one of them affect/interact with one-another. The question is
Using big data analytics techniques, how to generate quality information at District/State levels, using above databases, that would aid in policy formulation for effective water education & governance and management?
Mini Desalination plants in coastal areas
Low cost, environmental friendly, low power technologies available for setting up and operating mini desalination plants for coastal habitations.
Grey water management

Many States are providing higher per-capita water supply service levels in rural areas. This is leading to generation of significant grey water in rural areas and needs to be managed usefully. Suggestions are invited for innovative, low cost and simple technologies to manage the grey water in rural areas.
Cleaning of Sewers and Septic Tanks
Smart and efficient cleaning techniques, with the objective of eliminating need for human entry.