The Chhattisgarh government has announced that it has shortlisted 36 startups that it seems promising, under its ambitious initiative launched last year to foster entrepreneurship and promote innovation.
Out of the total 3,858 ideas submitted, 36 concepts were selected by the screening committee formed under the Commerce and Industry department.
Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh — Raman Singh felicitated the startups selected under the first phase of the ‘Start-up Chhattisgarh Grand Challenge’ during an event organised here by Commerce and Industry department. Addressing the crowd, he said,
Youths need to be fearless to bring their ideas into commercial products. This initiative (‘Start-up Chhattisgarh’) can provide wings to a lot of young talented people for becoming tomorrow’s entrepreneurial leaders.
He further added that his government was committed to make ‘Start-up Chhattisgarh’ a grand success and would extend full support to develop the ecosystem for start-ups. He also added that the Chhattisgarh government is committed to promote new ideas to become established ventures by developing a conductive Startup ecosystem.
Chief Minister also inaugurated “36 inc.”, the only incubator in the state sanctioned under Atal Innovation Mission. The incubator has been set up under Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPS), and will currently operate from Udyog Bhawan here.
Under the ’36 inc’, the incubatees will be mentored and provided support by the incubator in developing their business plan, building a prototype, market testing of the product/service and funding.
‘Start up Chhattisgarh’ was launched last year with an aim to create an ecosystem that is conducive for growth of startups. Under the first phase of the programme, boot camps were conducted in all the 27 districts of the state to collect ideas for incubation.