Am writing, will publish once done!

NITI Aayog-Atal Tinkering Labs – Ranking and Progress (2016-2018)
S.No.	State	Spell – I,II,III             (2016-2017)	Rank (2016-2017)	2017- 2018   Spell 1	Rank	2017-2018   Spell 2	Rank	Overall Centres	Over All Rank
1	Andhra Pradesh	33	11	131	6	269	1	433	2
2	Andaman and Nicobar Island				33	19	23	19	31
3	Arunachal Pradesh	8	28	6	26	19	24	33	24
4	Assam	27	16	29	18	169	9	225	13
5	Bihar	31	13	27	17	32	21	90	19
6	Chandigarh	17	20		23	8	32	25	27
7	Chhattisgarh	30	15	56	13	153	10	239	12
8	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	0		2	34			2	34
9	Delhi	55	4	45	10	125	13	225	13
10	Goa	10	23	1	29	9	31	20	30
11	Gujarat	49	7	71	8	130	12	250	10
12	Haryana	33	12	62	11	91	15	186	15
13	Himachal Pradesh	14	21	15	21	47	18	76	20
14	Jammu and Kashmir	11	22	24	20	15	26	50	22
15	Jharkhand	10	24	35	19	64	17	109	17
16	Karnataka	46	8	131	4	133	11	310	6
17	Kerala	41	9	172	1	222	3	435	1
18	Madhya Pradesh	50	6	103	7	219	4	372	5
19	Maharashtra	77	3	116	2	196	5	389	4
20	Manipur	9	25	7	24	35	20	51	21
21	Meghalaya	8	28	3	27	11	29	22	28
22	Mizoram	4	31	7	28	15	27	26	26
23	Nagaland	3	32	6	30	10	30	19	31
24	Odisha	17	19	90	9	171	8	278	8
25	Puducherry	5	30	2	32	14	28	21	29
26	Punjab	37	10	41	14	79	16	157	16
27	Rajasthan	23	17	69	12	172	7	264	9
28	Sikkim	9	26		30	19	25	28	25
29	Tamil Nadu	81	2	90	5	224	2	395	3
30	Telangana	31	14	29	16	179	6	239	12
31	Tripura	9	27	7	25	2	33	18	33
32	Uttar Pradesh	88	1	98	3	95	14	281	7
33	Uttarakhand	21	18	7	22	22	22	50	23
34	West Bengal	51	5	17	15	41	19	109	17

Dr Solomon, University of California, Berkeley writes:

Dear Indian Students,

It was fun working with you earlier this year. Here is another challenge for this summer with real seriousness surrounding Prototying a Smart Village in India. This was a personal request from the Hon. Chief Minister of Andhra and will provide you with much visiablity of your hard work.  We have over 12 firms partnering with us to make this project a success they include: Trianz, Google, IBM, Cisco, Tyco, Paradigm Mtuity, Qualcomm, Sahaj, EVx, Ericsson, Tech Mahindra, Potential.com

Please go through the attached summary and email Mr. David Maracine in case you are interested, dmaracine@university.edu. Also copy Manav Subodh at UC Berkeley who is the Project Director administering this challenge, manav.subodh@berkeley.edu. Dr. Valli is the Director of the Open Innovation Center at Andhra Univesity will be our host once again, please contact her for logistical questions , smartvillagechallenge@gmail.com  as we get closer to the June 20, 2016, the date of your presentations.

Please do not write to me or contact me as I will be travelling in the summer and will not be in a position to respond to your emails.

Letter of Invitation from UC Berkeley – Smart Village Challenge to Deans (1)

Blessings,

 Solomon Darwin

Executive Director

Center for Corporate Innovation

UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business

Office 510-643-4133  Cell 510-316-8286

AU and UC Berkeley Open Innovation Challenge: Building Smart Cities. Andhra University, Vizag, India

MIT (Boston) 02-11-2015

An Expression of Interest was entered among Andhra University, AP Innovation Society and MIT spin off FAB Lab to set up SUPER FAB LAB in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam – first of its its kind of Super Fab Lab in South India – to promote design incubation among young students and innovators.

MIT is ranked as best institution for engineering and technology in the world. It is a great moment for AP government to bring MIT spin off to the State of Andhra Pradesh.

Excited to have this lab in Andhra University very soon 🙂

For more details download the USA Tour Report Prepared by AP Innovation Society. Courtesy: AP IT & EC web site

A few photos of the trip can also be found here: