Lok Sabha Question No. 40 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-04
Subject: States Start-up Ranking
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT FOR PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY AND INTERNAL TRADE

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 40.

TO BE ANSWERED ON MONDAY, THE 4 TH  FEBRUARY, 2019.

## STATES START-UP RANKING

## 40. SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI:

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

## वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्री

- (a) whether the Government has announced States start-up ranking recently;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  reasons  therefor  along  with  the  likely  benefits thereof; and
- (c) the  details  of  the  number  of  Start-ups  started  so  far  since  the  roll  out  of  start-up yojana, State-wise?

## ANSWER

## वाणिज् य एवं उद्योग मंत्रालय में राज् यमंत्री श्ी सी.आर. चौधरी) THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (SHRI C.R. CHAUDHARY)

- (a): Yes Madam,  Department  for Promotion of Industry and Internal  Trade had announced States Startup ranking on 20 th December, 2018.
- (b): The 'State Startup Ranking Framework' was spread across 7 areas of interventions with a total of 38 action points. The areas of interventions included Startup policy and implementation, incubation support, seed funding support, venture funding support, simplified regulations, ease of public procurement and awareness and outreach. The framework also provided the guidelines to support implementation of action points. The evaluation of States/UTs was based on supporting documents submitted by the State Government and feedback from Startup ecosystem components. A total of 27 States and 3 UTs participated in the exercise and the results are as follows:
-  Best Performer: Gujarat
-  Top Performers: Karantaka, Kerala, Odisha, Rajasthan
-  Leaders: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya  Pradesh, Telangana
-  Aspiring Leaders: Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
-  Emerging States: Assam, Delhi, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand
-  Beginners: Chandigarh, Manipur,  Mizoram,  Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tripura

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade launched the States Startup Ranking Framework with the key objective to encourage States and Union Territories  to  take  proactive  steps  towards  strengthening  the  enabling  Startup ecosystems within their jurisdictions.

The likely benefits of State Startup Ranking are as follows:

-  Facilitate States to identify, learn and replicate good practices
-  Help  bring  to  fore  progress  made  by  States  for  promoting  Startup ecosystem
-  Foster competitiveness & propel the States/ UTs to work proactively
- (c): As  on  27.01.2019  total  15,632  Startups  have  been  recognized  by  Department  for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. The State wise breakup of these startups are as below:

| S. No.   | State                       |   Recognized Startups |
|----------|-----------------------------|-----------------------|
| 1        | Maharashtra                 |                  2973 |
| 2        | Karnataka                   |                  2261 |
| 3        | Delhi                       |                  2094 |
| 4        | Uttar Pradesh               |                  1294 |
| 5        | Telangana                   |                   889 |
| 6        | Haryana                     |                   820 |
| 7        | Tamil Nadu                  |                   813 |
| 8        | Gujarat                     |                   811 |
| 9        | Kerala                      |                   603 |
| 10       | West Bengal                 |                   479 |
| 11       | Madhya Pradesh              |                   428 |
| 12       | Rajasthan                   |                   416 |
| 13       | Orissa                      |                   291 |
| 14       | Andhra Pradesh              |                   288 |
| 15       | Bihar                       |                   199 |
| 16       | Chhattisgarh                |                   197 |
| 17       | Jharkhand                   |                   131 |
| 18       | Uttarakhand                 |                   124 |
| 19       | Assam                       |                   118 |
| 20       | Punjab                      |                   114 |
| 21       | Jammu and Kashmir           |                    71 |
| 22       | Goa                         |                    69 |
| 23       | Chandigarh                  |                    61 |
| 24       | Himachal Pradesh            |                    28 |
| 25       | Pondicherry                 |                    19 |
| 26       | Manipur                     |                    12 |
| 27       | Nagaland                    |                     7 |
| 28       | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |                     4 |
| 29       | Arunachal Pradesh           |                     4 |
| 30       | Tripura                     |                     4 |
| 31       | Dadra and Nagar Haveli      |                     3 |
| 32       | Daman and Diu               |                     2 |
| 33       | Meghalaya                   |                     2 |
| 34       | Mizoram                     |                     2 |
| 35       | Sikkim                      |                     1 |
| Total    | Total                       |                 15632 |

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