<p class="title">The setting up of one Innovation Centre each, in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, has been approved under the NITI Aayog Atal Innovation Mission, said Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The orders to begin the set up would soon be passed by the Centre she added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She was speaking at the Mallikatte complex in Mangaluru on Friday after inaugurating the incubation centre there. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The Defence Minister said that the incubation centres would be set up in Mangaluru's NITK and Nitte deemed universities. </p>.<p class="bodytext">"Tinkering labs have been sanctioned for 55 schools in three coastal districts of Karnataka already. We intend to set up innovation centres in two colleges in each district," Nirmala said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">She informed that the objective of tinkering labs in schools was to nurture innovation among students from an early age.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"At the college level they get a stage to express their inventiveness. Thereafter, those who hold promise will get opportunities and infrastructure to work at the innovation centre," she added. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides, incubation centres will assist start-ups with finance and infrastructure she added. </p>
<p class="title">The setting up of one Innovation Centre each, in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, has been approved under the NITI Aayog Atal Innovation Mission, said Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The orders to begin the set up would soon be passed by the Centre she added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She was speaking at the Mallikatte complex in Mangaluru on Friday after inaugurating the incubation centre there. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The Defence Minister said that the incubation centres would be set up in Mangaluru's NITK and Nitte deemed universities. </p>.<p class="bodytext">"Tinkering labs have been sanctioned for 55 schools in three coastal districts of Karnataka already. We intend to set up innovation centres in two colleges in each district," Nirmala said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">She informed that the objective of tinkering labs in schools was to nurture innovation among students from an early age.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"At the college level they get a stage to express their inventiveness. Thereafter, those who hold promise will get opportunities and infrastructure to work at the innovation centre," she added. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides, incubation centres will assist start-ups with finance and infrastructure she added. </p>
