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Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS)

Insights, Center for ICT for Development, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Policy Update

The Government of India's Startup India Seed Fund Initiative aims to build a robust startup ecosystem that nurtures innovation and provides opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs. Launched by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) on April 19, 2021, the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) has an outlay of INR 945 Crore to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry, and commercialization.

IMPRI Desk
May 26, 2024

Journey to Global Sustainability: WEF’s Giving to Amplify Earth Action Initiative

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Policy Update

The World Economic Forum, renowned for its commitment to shaping global agendas, launched the Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA) initiative as a response to the pressing need for coordinated efforts in the realm of environmental sustainability. This initiative, which acknowledges that environmental issues transcend national borders, strives to utilize collective giving in addressing the major environmental crises the world is currently facing.

IMPRI Desk
May 25, 2024

The Future of Healthcare: Cost-Effective and Patient-Centered

Insights, Center for Work and Welfare

In the current model, there is no incentive for healthcare providers to keep an insured individual healthy; they get some business only if the latter falls ill.

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
May 22, 2024

India and Iran Ink Decade-Long Chabahar Port Management Agreement

Insights, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies

Amb Anil Trigunayat For India the first ever contract for managing the foreign port is a significant development even as several Indian companies have been engaged in developing ports in Oman, Myanmar and Israel and elsewhere. And this 10 year-term…

IMPRI Desk, IMPRI and Anil Trigunayat
May 22, 2024

Leadership Crisis in Iran: The Aftermath of President Raisi’s Death

Insights, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies

The untimely death of President Ebrahim Raisi has caused a leadership vacuum, as he was mostly slated to succeed the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamanei, who is 85 and is said to be ailing.

IMPRI Desk and Anil Trigunayat
May 21, 2024

Migration, Gender, and Urban Inequality

Insights, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being

Gender studies and women's studies, as a discipline, have made efforts as a theoretical and conceptual rethinking of the linear rlationship between migraton, urbanisation and development.

IMPRI Desk and Vibhuti Patel
May 21, 2024

Xi Jinping’s Europe Visit Bolsters India’s Strategic Position

Insights, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, International Relations and Strategic Studies

The context of Xi's visit is burgeoning European desire to consolidate a European geopolitical salience

When China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping recently toured Europe, he concluded assorted agreements with France, the more refined of the European Union’s twin hearts, Serbia, a candidate member of the EU, and Hungary, the EU’s perpetual bad boy, often friendlier with Moscow than with Brussels. It was seen as a triumph of Chinese diplomacy, designed to reinforce Europe’s resistance to American pressure to choke off the burgeoning Chinese lead in high-tech and otherwise isolate Beijing.

IMPRI Desk, IMPRI and TK Arun
May 18, 2024