Initiatives

Around 37 consulting firms have been assigned work for preparing action plans for the 88 cities proposed to be developed as Smart Cities. The remaining 10 cities in north-eastern states and Union Territories will do so by this week end. While KPMG will prepare the action plan for New Delhi Municipal ...

T-Hub is India’s largest incubation centre for Startups, initiated by government of Telangana. It is positioned in International Institute of Information Technonolgy in its Hyderabad campus. Apart from IIIT Hyderabad, ISB and NASLAR are partners in this T-Hub incubation initiative. It is a big step toward boosting new entrepreneurs to ...

Kalbelia, a folk dancer who entertains tourists for a living, had vowed to cut half of his moustache if people in his village did not build toilets by the first anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His pledge, in a land where a man’s ...

Tamil Nadu government is providing some subsidies to upgrade MSME sector as well as to garner more employment in the said sector. Below is given a list of subsidies that you can avail now if you are an entrepreneur in Tamil Nadu. Subsidies for Micro Manufacturing Enterprises- TN government is ...

Andhra Pradesh State has announced a new solar power policy to avoid the power crisis by utilizing solar power in the state. The state is poised for rapid industrial growth driven by infrastructure investments and has also been selected by Ministry of Power as one of the pilot states for ...

Tamil Nadu government’s favorable business environment and schemes help entrepreneurs to set up their business in the state. One such scheme is Mahila Udyam Scheme which aims to provide soft loan assistance to women entrepreneurs to set up business or industrial entity in small scale sector as well as undertaking ...

Entrepreneur Support Scheme ESS has been helping entrepreneurs and MSMEs since 2012 in order to make Kerala an entrepreneur’s hub. The same amount of focus has been also given to MSMEs to create a large amount of employment opportunities. The scheme provides following assistance and support to each successful applicant: Financial ...

Tamil Nadu has emerged as one of the leading states for starting up business in India. An annual Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) survey conducted by India SME Forum in June 2014 reveals that Tamil Nadu is the most preferred destination for start-ups, as the state has a highly entrepreneur ...

Kerala Government in last four years, has launched various schemes specially to stop migration of its young population to Gulf countries. The state government is providing assistance to a number of industries among them food processing industry and Information Technology are the focus areas of this government. In line with ...

The government of India has set a target to increase the share of processed food in Indian food basket – 25% by 2025. The Vision 2015 of the Central Government aims to invest 1, 10,000 Cr in the food processing sector. In line with that Kerala government has setup ‘State ...