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PM Modi unveils historic Startup Action Plan

The PM unveiled the historic Startup Action Plan.It was on the occasion of India’s 69th Independence Day that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Startup India initiative.

It is focused on to restrict role of States in policy domain and to get rid of “license raj” and hindrances like in land permissions, foreign investment proposal, environmental clearances. It was organized by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).

A startup is an entity that is headquartered in India which was opened less than five years ago and have an annual turnover less than ₹25 crore(US$3.7 million).

Highlights of the action Plan:

1.Compliance regime based on self certification :

  • Startups shall be allowed to self-certify compliance with labour and environment laws .

  • No inspection will be conducted for three years.

  • In case of environment laws, startups under ‘white’ category would be able to self certify compliance.

2.Startup India hub :

  • Will be single-point of contact and hand-holding.

3.Simplifying the startup process :

  •  A startup will be to able to set up by just filling up a short form through a mobile app and online portal that will be launched in April.

4.Patent protection :

  •  The government will make IPR procedure transparent for stratups.

  • Patent applications of the startups shall be fast tracked for examination and disposal.

  • 80% in patent registration fee.

5.Panel of facilitators to provide legal support and assist in filing of patent application:

  • Facilitators shall provide assistance for startups in filing and disposal of patent applications related to patents, trademarks and design under relevant Acts.

  • Government shall bear the entire fees of the facilitators for any number of patents, trademarks or designs that a startup may file.

6.Relaxed norms of public procurement for startups:

  • Startups (in the manufacturing sector) shall be exempted from the criteria of prior ‘experience/turnover’ without any relaxation in quality standards or technical parameters.

7.Faster exits for startups :

  • To make it easier for startups to exit, provision for fast-tracking closure of businesses have been included in ‘The insolvency and Bankrupcy Bill 2015’.

  • Startups with simple debt structures may be wound up within a period of 90 days from making of an application for winding up on a fast-track basis.

8.Funds of funds with a corpus of Rs 10,000 crore:

  •  To provide funding support for development and growth of innovation driven enterprises, Government will set up a fund with an initial corpus of Rs 2,500 crore and a total corpus of Rs 10,000 crore over a period of 4 years.

 9.Credit Guarantee Fund :

  •   To catalyse entrepreneurship through credit to innovators across all sections of society, credit guarantee mechanism through National Credit Guarantee Trust Company/SIDBI shall be rolled out with a budgetary corpus of Rs 500 cr per year for the next four years.

10.Exemption from Capital Gains Tax:

  •  Exemptions shall be given in case capital gains are invested in the fund of funds recognised by the government. In addition, existing capital gain tax exemption for investment in newly formed MSMEs by individuals shall be extended to all startups. (Generally, long-term capital gains are charged to tax @ 20% (plus surcharge and cess as applicable)

11.Tax exemption for startups:

To promote growth of startups, profit of startups, set up after April 1,2016, shall be exempted from income-tax for a period of three years.

12.Tax exemption on investments above Fair Market Value :

  •  In line with the exemption available to venture capital funds to invest in startups above fair market value (FMV), investments made by incubators above FMV shall also be exempted.

13.Startup fests :

  • For showcasing innovation and providing a collaboration platform

14.Entrepreneurship promotion via

  • Establishment of sector specific incubators

  • Establishment of 500 tinkering labs with 3D printers in universities

  • Pre-incubation training to potential entrepreneurs

  • Strengthening of existing incubation facilities

  • Seed funding to high growth startups

15.Innovation promotion via:

  • Atal Innovation Mission

  • Institution of innovation awards (three per state/UT) and three national level

  • Providing support to State Innovation councils for awareness creation and organising state level workshops/conferences

  • Launch of Grand Innovation Challenge Awards for finding low cost solution to India’s pressing and intractable problems

16.Setting up of 35 new incubators in institutions :

  • Funding support of 40% (subject to a maximum of Rs 10 crore) shall be provided by central government for establishment of new incubators in existing institutions for which 40% funding by the respective state government and 20% funding by the private sector has been committed.

17.Setting up of 7 new research parks modeled on the research park at IIT Madras:

  •  Government shall set up seven new research parks – six in IITs, one in IISc with an initial investment of Rs 100 crore each.

  • These parks shall enable companies with a research focus to set up base and leverage the expertise of academic/research institution. 

18.Promote entrepreneurship in biotechnology:

  • Five new bio clusters, 50 new bio incubators, 150 technology transfer offices and 20 bio connect offices will be established.

19.Innovation focused programmes for students :

  • Innovation core program shall be initiated to target school kids with an outreach to 10 lakh innovations from five lakh schools.

  • A Grand Challenge Program (National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations) to support and award Rs 10 lakhs to 20 student innovations from Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centres.

  • Uchhattar Avishkar Yojana has earmarked Rs 250 crore per annum towards fostering ‘very high quality’ research amongst IIT students.

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