New Delhi: The government should support small and medium businesses and the informal sector to create jobs instead of unleashing taxmen on them, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has said. In a video released by the Congress on October 6, Gandhi said the central issu…
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EDII to roll out start-up classes in buses under ‘World on Wheels’ project
Ahmedabad: In a bid to take digital literacy and knowledge of entrepreneurship to rural communities, the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Bhat, Gandhinagar, has begun the ‘World on Wheels’ project. Currently to be launched with five buses, each of…
Centre to support innovators in all stages to nurture budding entrepreneurs
The Central government has broadbased the ‘Start up India, Stand up India’ initiative to encourage innovative ideas by people of various cross-sections, irrespective of their educational background, Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said. Inaugurating …
Need to strengthen loan restructuring mechanism: Meghwal
New Delhi: The loan restructuring mechanism should be bolstered if the government were to get a firm grip on bad loans, said Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal. “We need to strengthen the loan restructuring mechanism… it will, along with various other measures taken by bo…
Govt plans to set up 7 new research parks to bolster R&D for start-ups
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the “Startup India, Stand Up India” in January 2016. The initiative had a slew of measures aimed at simplifying compliance, exempting profits from start-ups for the first three years, and rolling out an action plan for boosting innovation and entr…
Innovate we must. Failure is not an option
The great Robert Noyce once said, “At the heart of what is possible is innovation and imagination”. Since I came back to India, I have been even more fascinated by the statement and how aptly it summed up the situation in the country. For centuries India has been a land of promise and potential, …
Stand-up India: Key to developing entrepreneurs from underprivileged sections of society is mentoring
Indian startups have captured global attention, attracted venture capital and achieved notable success in recent years. Such an effort if replicated at scale for underprivileged sections of society can have a catalytical impact on job generation in the country. While new entrepreneurship requires…
The rise of WomePreneurship in India
WomePreneurship has been on the rise worldwide. Approximately 37% of businesses in the formal sectors globally are owned by women. Not to be left behind, Indian women entrepreneurs are catching up as well. According to the recently released sixth economic census, women comprise 13.76% (8.05 milli…
Startup India’s flaws are beginning to tell
Around this time last year, the Narendra Modi government launched the Startup India, Stand Up India campaign. It announced a slew of measures—simplifying regulations, offering some handholding, a few tax breaks, and a fund-of-funds—to rev up the start-up engine and enable entrepreneurship, techno…
Year in Review: 8 moments in 2016 that changed India’s start-up ecosystem
As we stand at the cusp of 2017, it’s time to gather one’s thoughts regarding the year that passed us by. For startups in India, 2016 proved to be the year for consolidation and transition, where entrepreneurial mindset metamorphosed from a gold rush-like mentality into an ecosystem where p…