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, …
Tag: Start-Up India
Odisha signs MoU with Startup India Hub & InvestIndia to promote Startup Odisha
The startup culture in India has been rapidly shaping into a phenomenon, and with PM Modi propelling the movement with the launch of the Startup India initiative; there is a significant push for the cause by state governments across the country. Odisha government has now joined the movement, deve…
Govt to launch networking platform for start-ups in April
New Delhi: Come April, start-ups will have a Linkedin-like platform to discover and interact with investors, mentors, incubators and other service providers in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The new platform—an upgrade of Start-up India Hub launched in March last year—will intelligently connect s…
Start-up India: Policies abound but limited impact on ground
Propelled by the perceived success of the Digital India and Skill India initiatives, the Narendra Modi government had announced its ambitious Startup India programme in January 2016. Mooted with the objective of creating a conducive ecosystem for emerging businesses in India, an assessment of its…
GST: Why TCS on e-tailers doesn’t make sense
Amidst fierce rivalries, lobbying about a “level playing field”, arguments on the dumping of foreign capital, and the Indian versus multinational debate, it was fun to watch the chiefs of India’s top three e-tailing companies come together for another level-playing field talk. A…
Entrepreneurship courses got a boost from Start-up India: IIMA’s Amit Karna
Start-ups have mushroomed throughout the country, and so have short-term entrepreneurship courses that promise to hone people’s entrepreneurial skills. Professor Amit Karna, chairperson of Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, comm…
Year after Startup India was launched; tax relief for start-ups fails to begin as states go slow
Less than a third of the 36 states and union territories heeded (until the second week of January) the central government’s request to relax inspection of start-ups under certain labour laws in initial years, even around a year after the Start-Up India programme was launched. Despite an aggressiv…
स्वरोजगार को बढ़ाने में स्टार्टअप इंडिया का अहम् योगदान, सबके लिए बनाये नए अवसर: DIPP सेक्रेटरी रमेश अभिषेक
देश के विकास में आज स्टार्टअपस एक अहम भूमिका निभा रहे हैं और स्वरोजगार की भावना को बल दे रहे हैं। स्वरोजगार को बढ़ाने के लिए एक नए युग की शुरुआत करते हुए साल 2016 में सरकार द्वारा कई पहलों को शुरु किया गया था। जिसमें वाणिज्य मंत्रालय के अधीन औद्योगिक नीति एवं संवर्धन विभाग (डिपार्टमेंट […]…
Start-Up India is open for all|DIPP Secretary Ramesh Abhishek
The start-up revolution has taken over the country. Started on January 16, 2016 as an initiative to push the spirit of ‘self-employment’, the leg up of Start-Up India has been phenomenal. The journey has witnessed a humongous share from Department of Industrial policy and Promotion (DIPP), under …
Using AIF regulations to start-up India
On 16 January 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched “Startup India”, a scheme targeted at building a strong ecosystem to nurture innovation and start-ups in the country. A year on, it is a good time to assess how it has performed. Broadly speaking, the scheme consisted of four types of incen…