Modi to make key announcements on Startup India in Dec.: Sinha

The Minister of State for Finance was delivering the keynote C. K. Prahalad Memorial Lecture at the TiECon Delhi 2015.

October 18, 2015 02:40 am | Updated November 16, 2021 04:17 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

B.Line:Jayant Sinha MOS ,Finance addressing at the TiEcon Delhi 2015 event ,in New Delhi ,on 17.1015. Pic : Kamal Narang 

B.Line:Jayant Sinha MOS ,Finance addressing at the TiEcon Delhi 2015 event ,in New Delhi ,on 17.1015. Pic : Kamal Narang 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make a series of ‘very important’ announcements to promote startups in the country in December, said Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha here on Saturday.

In his Independence Day speech, Mr. Modi had announced a new campaign ‘Startup India; Stand up India’ to promote bank financing for startups and offer incentives to boost entrepreneurship and job creation in the country.

“... in early to mid-December, the Prime Minister is going to make a series of very important announcements on Startup India where we will bring together the work that we are doing and make some important announcements about how we are going to take forward India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem,” Mr. Sinha said.

Promising that the announcements are going to be ‘very exciting’, the minister said the government was committed to promote startups and entrepreneurship.

“We have already done, I think, more in the last 15 months than the previous government did in 10 years,” Mr. Sinha said.

He was delivering the keynote C. K. Prahalad Memorial Lecture at the TiECon Delhi 2015. Mr. Prahalad was a renowned management guru.

Mr. Sinha said the announcements to be made by the Prime Minister would ensure that India as a country with respect to startups and entrepreneurs ‘is going to be the best in the world.’

The government, he said, was working very hard to make it very easy to do business for entrepreneurs and startups, and also to ensure the financing is available.

Another area where the government has put a lot of stress is to foster innovation in research centres and in the universities through the network of innovation laboratories. In the Budget, there were a number of important steps to encourage startups, including setting up of India Aspiration Fund and Atal Innovation Mission.

“We have tried to streamline and make doing business in India much easier,” Mr. Sinha added.

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