NEW DELHI: Commerce and business minister Piyush Goyal on Monday prompt that India may have its personal Silicon Valley and proposed a new township devoted to startups, the place an ecosystem might be created for entrepreneurs, incubators and different stakeholders to foster the concepts and implement them.
“We should be aspiring to go beyond. We should be aspiring to have our own Silicon Valley… I know Bengaluru is the Silicon Valley of India.But it’s time now we also started thinking in terms of may be tying up with NICDIC and creating a whole new township dedicated to entrepreneurs, startups, innovators, and disruptors, people will have ideas,” Goyal stated at an occasion to launch of Bharat Startup Knowledge Access Registry (BHASKAR) portal.
The National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) is implementing the National Industrial Corridor programme, serving to create infrastructure to develop new industrial cities.
“Can we create a society, or a whole 200 or 100 or 500 acre area…and see whether we can create some such ecosystem where whether it is incubators…whether it’s somebody coming from a very far off place with an idea who does not where and whom to connect with can use land up there ….like once upon a time people used to come to Mumbai,” the minister stated.
He additionally introduced the establishing of a non-profit or part firm, like Invest India, to convey all initiatives and our bodies associated to startups underneath this entity.
“With over 1.4 lakh DPIIT-recognised startups as of August 2024, India has established itself as one of the largest and most vibrant startup ecosystems globally. However, this tremendous growth has also led to the fragmentation of resources and stakeholders. BHASKAR aims to challenge incubators, policymakers, and other key startup ecosystem stakeholders under one roof for ease of accessibility and traceability,” an official assertion stated.
“We should be aspiring to go beyond. We should be aspiring to have our own Silicon Valley… I know Bengaluru is the Silicon Valley of India.But it’s time now we also started thinking in terms of may be tying up with NICDIC and creating a whole new township dedicated to entrepreneurs, startups, innovators, and disruptors, people will have ideas,” Goyal stated at an occasion to launch of Bharat Startup Knowledge Access Registry (BHASKAR) portal.
The National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) is implementing the National Industrial Corridor programme, serving to create infrastructure to develop new industrial cities.
“Can we create a society, or a whole 200 or 100 or 500 acre area…and see whether we can create some such ecosystem where whether it is incubators…whether it’s somebody coming from a very far off place with an idea who does not where and whom to connect with can use land up there ….like once upon a time people used to come to Mumbai,” the minister stated.
He additionally introduced the establishing of a non-profit or part firm, like Invest India, to convey all initiatives and our bodies associated to startups underneath this entity.
“With over 1.4 lakh DPIIT-recognised startups as of August 2024, India has established itself as one of the largest and most vibrant startup ecosystems globally. However, this tremendous growth has also led to the fragmentation of resources and stakeholders. BHASKAR aims to challenge incubators, policymakers, and other key startup ecosystem stakeholders under one roof for ease of accessibility and traceability,” an official assertion stated.
