{"id":127206,"date":"2021-08-19T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=127206"},"modified":"2021-08-20T18:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:59:48","slug":"defence-minister-to-launch-defence-india-startup-challenge-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/defence-minister-to-launch-defence-india-startup-challenge-5-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister to launch Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1746937\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Defence Minister will launch Defence India Startup Challenge(DISC 5.0).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Defence India Startup Challenge:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Defence India Startup Challenge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been launched by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/idex-dio-defence-minister-approves-budgetary-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), Defence Innovation Organisation(DIO)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with support from the Ministry of Defence and<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/atal-innovation-mission-successfully-completes-atl-tinkerpreneur-bootcamp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Atal Innovation Mission<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To support Startups\/MSMEs\/Innovators to create prototypes and\/or commercialize products\/solutions in the area of National Defence and Security.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>DISC 5.0:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The fifth edition of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DISC will have more challenges than the first four DISC editions taken together.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><b>About SPARK:\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>SPARK<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or Support for Prototype &amp; Research Kickstart (in Defence) is the scheme for funding startups selected through the DISC challenges.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Applicants showing capability, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">intent and promise to be able to produce functional prototypes or to productize existing technologies will be awarded up to Rs. 1.5 crores in the form of grant\/equity\/debt\/other relevant structures.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? The Defence Minister will launch Defence India Startup Challenge(DISC 5.0). About Defence India Startup Challenge: Defence India Startup Challenge has been launched by the Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), Defence Innovation Organisation(DIO) with support from the Ministry of Defence and Atal Innovation Mission. Aim: To support Startups\/MSMEs\/Innovators to create&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/defence-minister-to-launch-defence-india-startup-challenge-5-0\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defence Minister to launch Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[9177,685,8782],"class_list":["post-127206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-defence-india-startup-challenge","tag-defence-sector","tag-government-policies-and-interventions","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701341212},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}