Lok Sabha Question No. 1851 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-03
Subject: Turnover for Start-ups
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: L.S. Tejasvi Surya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

## DEPARTMENT FOR PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY AND INTERNAL TRADE LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1851.

TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE 3 RD  JULY, 2019.

## TURNOVER FOR START-UPS

## 1851.  SHRI L.S. TEJASVI SURYA:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY be pleased to state:

## वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्री

- (a) whether the Government will increase the maximum turnover for a firm to be considered as a start-up from its current figure of Rs. 25 crore and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether  the  Government  plans  to  increase  or  reduce  the  percentage  of apprenticeship in start-ups from its current  range of 2.5% to 10% of the total workforce and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the  list  of  facilitators  in  Karnataka  and  benefited  start-ups  till  date  from  the Start-ups Intellectual Property Protection Scheme; and
- (d) the number of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and the funds disbursed under the Fund of Funds for Start-ups from AIFs, State-wise till date?

## ANSWER

## वाणिज् य एवं उद्योग मंत्री (श्री पीयूष गोयल) THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (SHRI  PIYUSH GOYAL)

- (a): Department  for  Promotion  of  Industry  and  Internal  Trade  (DPIIT)  vide  its notification  number  G.S.R.  127(E)  dated  19 th February  2019  has  increased the maximum turnover for a firm to be considered as a start-up to Rs. 100 crore from earlier criteria of maximum turnover of Rs. 25 crore.
- (b): The  Apprentices  Act,  1961  makes  it  obligatory  for  employers  to  engage apprentices in 'designated trades' and 'optional trades' for all employers who have a workforce of 40 employees or above (sum of total regular and contract employees),  across  the  manufacturing,  services,  trading  sectors,  etc.    For establishments  having  workforce  of  6  to  40  employees,  engagement  of apprentices is optional.  However, establishments with 5 employees or less are  not  permitted  to  engage  apprentices.  The  Apprentices  Act,  1961  does have  any  provision  for  'Start-ups'.    As  per  sub  rule  (3)  of  Rule  7-B  the Apprenticeship Rules, 1992, each establishment shall engage apprentices in a  band  of  2.5%  to  10%  of  the  total  strength  of  the  establishment  including contractual staff.

The  Government  has  no  plan  to  increase  or  reduce  the  percentage  of apprenticeship in establishments, at present.

- (c): The list of facilitators in Patents and Trademarks from Karnataka, registered with Intellectual Property office under Start-ups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) scheme as on 31 st May 2019 is at Annexure I (a) and (b). As on 31 st May 2019, more than 900 applications for Patents and more than 1900  applications  for  Trademarks  have  been  filed  by  startups  through facilitators under the SIPP scheme.
- (d): Government of India has established Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) with corpus of Rs. 10,000 crore, to meet the funding needs of startups. DPIIT is the  monitoring  agency  and  Small  Industries  Development  Bank  of  India (SIDBI)  is  the  operating  agency  for  FFS.  As  on  June  24,  2019,  SIDBI  has committed  Rs  3123.20  crore  to  49  SEBI  registered  Alternative  Investment Funds (AIFs). These funds have raised a corpus fund of Rs. 27,478 crore. Rs 483.46 crore have been drawn from Fund of Funds for Startups. Further, the AIFs have invested a total of Rs. 1,625.73 crore into 247 startups. State/UTwise details of funds invested by the AIFs are at Annexure II.

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## ANNEXURE I(a)

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (C)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1851 FOR ANSWER ON 3.7.2019

List  of  Patent  facilitators  in  Karnataka  from  Start-ups  Intellectual  Property  Protection Scheme

| Name of Patent Facilitator    |   Patent Agent No. | Area of specialization (as declared by the facilitator)                                                                                    |
|-------------------------------|--------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ANUGU VIJAYA BHASKAR REDDY    |               2420 | Dairy Technology, Food Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Consumer Appliances                                                             |
| Basavarajappa NT              |               2509 | Electrical Engineering                                                                                                                     |
| BIRENDRA KUMAR                |               1102 | Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Telecommunications, Semiconductor, Computer Networks, Electromechanical, Intellectual Property rights |
| DR. P K Ashwini Kumar         |                331 | -                                                                                                                                          |
| Kalyan Chakravarthy Kankanala |                700 | Biosciences                                                                                                                                |
| Namratha P. Shenoi            |               2256 | Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Phamraceuticals Chemistry and Related Multidisciplinary Subjects                                              |
| Ritika Manchanda              |               2184 | Mechanical, Electrical, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Biomedical Sciences, Food Technology, and related fields.                          |
| S. Afsar                      |               1073 | Electronics                                                                                                                                |
| Abhay Porwal                  |               2631 | Electrical Engineering, CSE                                                                                                                |
| Anita Sharma                  |               1475 | Computer Science                                                                                                                           |
| Gaurav Jain                   |               2562 | Electronics, Teleco., Software, IT                                                                                                         |
| M. Suresh Gupta               |               1302 | Pharmaceuticals                                                                                                                            |
| Srikanth Chilukuru            |               2682 | Chemical / Pharma                                                                                                                          |
| Syed Murtuza                  |               2633 | Computer Science / Electronics                                                                                                             |
| Vinita Radhakrishnan          |               1157 | Biosciences, Food Industry, Pharmaceuticals                                                                                                |

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## ANNEXURE I (b) ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (C)  OF  LOK  SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1851 FOR ANSWER ON 3.7.2019 List  of  Trademark  facilitators  in  Karnataka  from  Start-ups  Intellectual  Property

Protection Scheme

| Name                       | TMRagent Registration No. / Advocate   | Area of specialization (as declared by facilitator)   |
|----------------------------|----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
| Anugu Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy | TMA/ 1000                              | Trademarks                                            |
| Birendra Kumar             | D/2012/11                              | Trade Marks                                           |
| D. Prasanna Bhagwan        | KAR/942/14                             | Trade Marks                                           |
| Rama K                     | 17796                                  | Not provided                                          |
| Shrikant V Kumbar          | KAR/1008/14                            | Not provided                                          |
| Shrivani Shrivastav        | TMA/1050                               | Not provided                                          |
| Suhasini S.                | KAR/2085/13                            | Not provided                                          |
| Syed Murtuza               | TMA/1053                               | Not provided                                          |
| Vishwambara R              | KAR/977/14                             | Trade Marks                                           |
| Babitha Tharappan          | TMR Agent 32027                        | Trade Marks                                           |
| Santosh Vikram Singh       | KAR/2017/09                            | Trade Marks                                           |
| Afsar S. Patcha            | Adv. Reg. No. KAR/1168/2012            | Not Provided                                          |
| Maram Suresh Gupta         | Adv. Reg. no. 3052/2009                | Not Provided                                          |
| Zaheda Mulla               | AMR/13571                              | Not Provided                                          |
| Deepa E. S.                | KAR/1536/18                            | Not Provided                                          |
| Anita Sharma               | KAR/1658/2012                          | Not Provided                                          |

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## ANNEXURE II

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (d    OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1851 FOR ANSWER ON 3.7.2019

## State-wise distribution of investment made by AIFs under Fund of Funds for start-ups

| State          |   No of Startups Invested in |   Investment made by AIFs (in crore) |
|----------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Karnataka      |                           75 |                               499.85 |
| Maharashtra    |                           68 |                               440.38 |
| Delhi          |                           46 |                               252.94 |
| Haryana        |                           12 |                               120.54 |
| Tamil Nadu     |                           11 |                               113.34 |
| West Bengal    |                            4 |                                48.75 |
| Uttar Pradesh  |                            5 |                                47.61 |
| Rajasthan      |                            5 |                                40.28 |
| Telangana      |                            6 |                                28.22 |
| Punjab         |                            1 |                                14.5  |
| Kerala         |                            8 |                                10.87 |
| Madhya Pradesh |                            4 |                                 5.1  |
| Gujarat        |                            1 |                                 3.14 |
| Uttarakhand    |                            1 |                                 0.22 |
| Total          |                          247 |                              1625.73 |

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