The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs(MoHUA) in partnership with the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement (AFD) has launched the Swachhata Start-Up Challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 To provide an impetus to innovative start-ups to come forward and drive catalytic transformation in the sanitation and waste management sector.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 To promote an enabling environment for enterprise development under <\/span>Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u2013 To capitalize on the start-up movement by providing opportunities for entrepreneurship to young innovators to create socially impactful and market-ready business solutions<\/span>.<\/b><\/p>\n Eligibility: <\/b>The challenge is open to a) start-ups registered in India and b) French actors collaborating with an Indian start-up (as a joint venture).<\/span><\/p>\n Thematic Areas:<\/b> The challenge is open across four thematic areas viz. (i) social inclusion, (ii) zero dump (solid waste management), (iii) plastic waste management and (iv) transparency through digital enablement.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Top 10 startups to receive \u20b925 lakhs along with one year of dedicated incubation support from French Tech, the French government\u2019s initiative to promote start-ups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Eligible startups will get additional incentives which include up to \u20b9 50 Lakhs follow-on investment from Villgro, the implementation partner of the Challenge and up to 100,000 USD <\/span>worth of credits and technology support from technology partner Amazon Web Services, to each winner.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u2018<\/b>MoHUA-AFD Launch Swachhata Start-Up Challenge to Nurture the Evolving Ecosystem of Indian Waste Management Sector<\/b>\u2019 <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB <\/b>on<\/span> 27th January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs(MoHUA) in partnership with the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement (AFD) has launched the Swachhata Start-Up Challenge. What is the Swachhata Start-Up Challenge? Aim: \u2013 To provide an impetus to innovative start-ups to come forward and… Continue reading MoHUA-AFD Launch Swachhata Start-Up Challenge to Nurture the Evolving Ecosystem of Indian Waste Management Sector<\/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":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-164905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164905","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=164905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Swachhata Start-Up Challenge?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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