With a vision to cultivate one million child innovators in India, Atal Innovation Mission by NITI Aayog and Government of India, envisaged a novel program – establishment of Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools across the country. The Government of India aims to create an eco-system in the country that promotes the development and use of technology to find feasible solutions to problems. Taking the Prime Minister of India’s vision to enable children to innovate and do things on their own in India and to move India forward, more than 13 thousand schools have applied for ATLs.

The objective of this program is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds; and to inculcate skills such as design mind set, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc. This is in sync with the global scenario where Future Work Skills are increasingly being considered as an important skill set for creating new avenues, providing solutions to global problems and leading the global economy towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution*.