The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is a flagship initiative set up by

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Correct — B, NITI Aayog. The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is the Government of India's flagship platform to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, and it was set up under NITI Aayog (announced in Budget 2015-16, operational from 2016). Its programmes include Atal Tinkering Labs in schools, Atal Incubation Centres, Atal New India Challenges and Atal Community Innovation Centres.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) MHRD (now the Ministry of Education) runs the school and higher-education system; the Atal Innovation Mission is administered by NITI Aayog, not MHRD.  (c) This ministry handles the welfare of Scheduled Castes, OBCs, the disabled and other marginalised groups — unrelated to AIM.  (d) The tempting choice, since 'innovation' sounds scientific — but the Ministry of Science & Technology runs DST/DBT/CSIR bodies, whereas AIM sits specifically under NITI Aayog.

Concept: NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), the policy think-tank that replaced the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015, houses the Atal Innovation Mission as its umbrella initiative for innovation and entrepreneurship. AIM works across the pipeline — schools (Atal Tinkering Labs), start-ups (Atal Incubation Centres) and industry challenges — and is named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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