DPIIT working on credit guarantee, seed funds schemes to support startups in India

14 Sep 2020 Evaluate

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is working on two schemes -- credit guarantee and seed funds -- to support startups in the country. Both the schemes would require the approval of the finance ministry and then the DPIIT would seek the nod of the Union Cabinet for these two schemes. DPIIT Secretary Guruprasad Mohapatra said that an inter-ministerial consultation process is on to work out the contours of the two schemes. He also said there would be a corpus in the credit guarantee scheme which would be given to banks and they will leverage that to lend to startups.

Mohapatra said this scheme would give banks a comfort to lend and it is for credit not for venture capital. On the seed fund scheme, he said that most startups actually face problems in raising finance or funds in the ideation to the proof of concept stage. Some states like Gujarat and Kerala already have schemes like seed funds, but they are small. He also said ‘the central government ministries also have, but we want to put a pan India scheme.’

Talking about the next edition of the ranking of states and union territories (UTs) on their startup ecosystem, the secretary said that the department has already started the process for that. He added that the department is encouraging states to develop their startup policy to promote budding entrepreneurs.

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