States’ Start-up Ranking 2018 announced, Gujarat ranked Best Performer

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New Delhi : The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) announced results of the first ever States’ Start-up Ranking 2018 at an event in New Delhi on December 20, 2018. Gujarat has been franked as the Best Performer while Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, and Rajasthan have been ranked as Top Performer.

Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Telangana have been rated as Leaders while Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal haven rated as Aspiring Leaders. Assam, Delhi, Goa, J&K, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Uttarakhand have been ranked as Emerging States. Chandigarh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim, and Tripura have been franked as Beginners. Fifty-one officers from States and Union Territories have been identified as “Champions”, who have made significant contributions  towards developing their State’s Start-up ecosystem.

The DIPP began this exercise from January, 2016. The States have been identified as leaders across various categories such as Start-up policy leaders, incubation hubs, seeding innovation, scaling innovation, regulatory change champions, procurement leaders, communication champions, North-Eastern leader, and hill state leader.

The key objective of the exercise was to encourage States and Union Territories to take proactive steps towards strengthening the Start-upeco systems in their states. The methodology has been aimed at creating a healthy competition among States to further learn, share and adopt good practices.The entire exercise was conducted for capacity development and to further the spirit of cooperative federalism.

A total of 27 States and 3 Union Territories participated in the exercise. Evaluation committee comprising independent experts from the Start-up ecosystem assessed the responses across various parameters. Many parameters involved getting feedback from beneficiaries. More than 40,000 calls were made in 9 different languages to connect with beneficiaries to get a real pulse at the implementation levels. A comprehensive National Report on the States’ Start-up Ranking 2018 was also released at the event.

Secretary DIPP, Ramesh Abhishek, speaking on this occasion, said that start-ups are very important for the country as they create jobs and India resides in its states and start-ups with their innovative ideas will be able to solve social, agricultural and service sector problems of the country, according to a PIB release.