Education Ministry: IITs Overshadows Innovation Rankings

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras secured first place in the Education Ministry's Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020. IIT Mumbai and IIT Delhi bagged the second and third places respectively.

The innovation results were released by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore secured the fourth place, while IIT Kharagpur was at fifth in the Institutes of National Importance and central universities category.

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Emphasizing the need for India's higher education system to play the role of an enabler and force-multiplier to drive Indian innovation and start-up ecosystem, the Vice President said "Innovation must become the heartbeat of education. Quest for excellence must become the norm, adding, "The new National Education Policy (NEP) has a sharp focus on this aspect, he said.

ARIIA is implemented by AICTE and Ministry's Innovation Cell, Government of India. The ranking aims to promote innovation among Indian educational institutions, colleges and universities. A total of 674 institutions took part in the rankings.

ARIIA 2020 has six prize categories this year which include a special category for women- only higher education institutions. The other five categories are centrally funded institutions, state-funded universities, state-funded autonomous institutions, private/deemed universities, private institutions. Coimbatore's Avinashlingam Institute of Home Science and Higher education for women followed by Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, New Delhi have been ranked one and two respectively in the women's only category.