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Number of startups recognized by DPIIT touches 50k mark: Commerce Ministry New Delhi, Jun 3 (KNN) Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Thursday said that the number of startups recognized by DPIIT has touched 50,000 marks of which 10,000 startups were added in just 180 days.

Startup India is a flagship initiative of the Government of India launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16 January, 2016. The initiative is intended to catalyse startup culture and build a strong and inclusive ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship in India. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) acts as the nodal Department for the Startup initiative.

As on June 3, 2021, 50,000 startups across have been recognized as startups by DPIIT, of which 19,896 have been recognized since April 1, 2020, an official statement said.

With the launch of the Startup India initiative, recognized startups have now spread across 623 districts. Each State and UT has at least one startup. 30 states and UTs have announced specific startup policies to support startups. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat have the greatest number of startups, it added.

The statement further said that it took only 180 days to add the last 10,000 startups, as compared to 808 days for the first 10,000 at the beginning of the initiative. 743 startups were recognized in 2016-2017, in the first year of the initiative, which has now increased exponentially to over 16,000 startups being recognized in the year 2020-2021.

Entrepreneurs now have options, to avail benefits across a range of laws, regulations, fiscal and infrastructural support, leading to a surge in startup ecosystem growth, the statement said.

The recognized startups have contributed significantly to job creation, with 5,49,842 jobs reported by 48,093 startups with an average number of 11 employees per startup. About 1. 7 lakh jobs were created by recognized startups in the 2020-2021 period alone, it said.

The sectors that had the maximum registered startups were ‘Food Processing’, ‘Product Development’, ‘Application Development’, ‘IT Consulting’ and ‘Business Support Services’. The leadership teams of 45 per cent startups have a women entrepreneur, a trend which will inspire more women entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into startups.

Startup India at DPIIT has played a pivotal role in strengthening the key pillars identified for our startup economy. Funding opportunities to startups have been enhanced through the Fund of Funds Scheme with an overlay of INR 10,000 and the recently launched Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) with an outlay of Rs 945 crores.