Why in News ?

The Atal Rankings of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020 has been released.

What is ARIIA?

• It is an initiative of Ministry of Education (key player among others) to systematically rank all major higher educational institutions and universities in India.
• ARIIA is an initiative of the Ministry of HRD, implemented by AICTE and Ministry’s Innovation Cell, Government of India
• The other six categories (earlier five) are centrally funded institutions, state-funded universities, state-funded autonomous institutions, private/deemed universities, private institutions and women only higher educational institutions.
• The major indicators for ARIIA
  1. Budget, Expenses to Support & Revenue Generated (20 Marks)
  2. Infrastructures & Facilities to Support Innovations and Start-ups (10 Marks)
  3. Awareness Activities for Promoting Idea Generation and Innovation (20 Marks)
  4. Promotion and Supporting Entrepreneurship Development (20 Marks)
  5. Intellectual Property (IP) Generation, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation (14 Marks)
  6. Innovative Learning Methods & Courses (10 Marks)
  7. Innovations in Governance of the Institution (6 Marks)

Atal Ranking Highlights

• IIT-Madras has emerged as the best institute under the institute of national importance category.
• Best institutes in self-finance category In Self-finance institutes, SR Engineering College, Telangana.
• Avinashlingam Institute of Home Science and Higher education best women only institute Taminadu
• College of Engineering, Pune under Government and Government Aided Colleges.
• Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar under Private or Self-Financed Universities.
• Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai got the top position under Government and Government Aided Universities.

Source : PIB

Topic : Prelims, GS III :- Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources