Purvi Shukla

A Journalist, Foodie, Traveller, Photographer. Purvi is an avid learner of Business and SME Sector. She can be reached on purvi.shukla@smepost.com

Artisans too being made part of Khadi success story: MSME MoS Giriraj Singh

Promoted aggressively by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, Khadi is set to touch dizzying heights. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) , the nodal agency for promoting Khadi expects to cross its sales target of Rs 5,000 crore by the end of the current fiscal. A Long Way To Go KVIC …

Venture Capitals: The backbone of SMEs & Start-ups

If you are thinking to start a business or you are a successful businessman and want to take your business to a next level, your first priority should be tapping the venture capital funding. India has seen a great success in the startup ecosystem and ‘investors’ play a very crucial role in bringi…

Two more startups qualified for Startup India tax breaks

Two more startups have qualified for tax breaks as part of the Startup India programme, taking the total to 19. But even that is a very small figure considering over 800 start ups have applied under the scheme so far. The duo was picked at the third inter-ministerial board meeting on August 5 tha…

All parties except AIADMK supporting GST; voting remains

August 3, 2016: As the debate on GST Bill continues in Rajya Sabha with voting likely to be held late into the night, all parties supported it except for AIADMK. Today in the Rajya Sabha session on GST, main opposition Congress and most other parties, except AIADMK, expressed support, with certai…

IITian’s NearGroup app connecting neighbourhoods

In today’s world we have gone digital where our social boundaries have blurred. It has become difficult for us to identify that who is living in our neighbourhood. Hence in the time of any emergency we are not able to count on our neighbours. This evolving gap among the neighbours gave IIT Madras…