Tuesday, November 5

DIPP Announces Its 7-Pillar Framework To Rank States on Startup Development

With its goal to encourage states to take proactive steps to encourage startup ecosystem, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has launched the awaited ranking framework, that includes 7 pillars with 38 pointers to rank states/UT based on measures they have taken to promote and nurture entrepreneurship.

The online dashboard for State/UT Startup Ranking 2018 was launched by Minister of commerce and Industry, Sri Suresh Prabhu.

 

The Framework

DIPP aims to promote competitiveness amongst the Indian states and Union Territories to act proactively when it comes to startup and entrepreneurs. According to the report that DIPP released today, there are a total of 6,875 recognized startups and 82 startups have been given tax exemption.

DIPP has also assigned 7 pillars for the evaluation of the performance a State/UT’s Startup ecosystem, which are:

 

Objectives of the State Startup Ranking Framework

  • Help bring to fore progress made by the States/UTs for promoting Startup Ecosystem.
  • Foster competitiveness and propel the States/UTs to work pro-actively
  • Facilitates States/UTs to identify, learn and replicate good practices.

Amongst the various states, Maharashtra topped the list with highest number of recognised startups followed by Karnataka and Delhi for second and third place respectively. Only 18 states have implemented the startup policy ever since it was announced, out of which the following nine cover over 82% of the total DIPP recognised startups- Delhi, Haryana, UP, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

The DIPP will be releasing the State Startup Index by June 2018 and until then the states have been ranked on the basis of 7 pillars stated above.

“We understand that in this entrepreneurial success journey states must be involved and encouraged. That’s what we aim to do with this States Ranking Framework. We are aligning our strategies to tap the infinite potential of young entrepreneurial minds. We are helping them in the journey from idea to business and business to success,” Suresh Prabhu said in his opening speech.

The index also provides a compendium of good practices, mapping 95 best practices across the 18 participating states and union territories, which are seed funding, angel and VC funding, simplified regulations, public procurement etc.

 

DIPP is undertaking several initiatives to improve the ease of doing business and startup ecosystem in states. While it ranks union territories and states based on Ease of Doing business, the Startup India Ranking will further help states to improve their startup ecosystems in their states.

 

With the State Startup Ranking framework, the States will get involved with the startup ecosystem and entrepreneurial activities on a bigger scale, and it will be interesting to see what methods these states will adopt to get on top of the list.