Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, had selected Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham as the lead nodal agency to implement the Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) Sarthi cluster program for the district of Coimbatore in August 2024. Since then, the Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, has implemented this community outreach program by organizing school fairs, mini-hackathons, project exhibitions, cybersecurity awareness sessions, workshops, teacher training programs, patent awareness, guidance for compliance, and school visits for the benefit of 67 schools with ATLs in Coimbatore district. AIM’s ATL Sarthi initiative aims to provide a self-sustainable cluster model for the enablement and monitoring of 10,000 ATLs set up at schools in 700+ districts all over India, with the support of universities, colleges, industry, startups, and NGOs.
Schools mentored and visited in Academic Year (AY) 2025-2026 include Yuvabharathi, PSGR Krishnammal, Rathinam International Public School, etc. As part of Anokha 2026 techfest, a school fair & project exhibition was conducted for ATLs in the district with excellent participation and good prize money. Another activity wherein Amrita’s IIC led the coordination was Mega Tinkering Day (MTD) 2025 in several schools in the Coimbatore district. MTD event entered both the India Book of Records and Asia Book of Records for the maximum number of students participating in a tinkering activity in a single day with a participation of 4.73 lakh school students pan-India.
On 13 October 2026, ATL Sarthi Coimbatore cluster nodal officer, Dr. Prashant R. Nair, Deputy Registrar @ AMRITA, presented the report for AY 2025-26 to Mr. Hrishikesh MP, Consultant, AIM at NITI Aayog, New Delhi. Dr. Prashant R. Nair and Mr. Ramaguru Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor – Cybersecurity serve as the President and Convener respectively of the IIC of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus. Recently, Amrita’s IIC has been awarded the prestigious 4-STAR Rating in the Annual Performance for AY 2024–2025 from the AICTE and the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC).
