New ecosystem for startups in MH? Well, what about the 'startup govt' first?

Mumbai, February 03: In a bid to boost the startup ecosystem in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday launched a scheme aimed at providing financial assistance to innovative startups to file for IT patents. As per a statement, around 125-150 startups will be supported in the first phase of the scheme with the financial help of Rs 2 lakh to Rs 10 lakh, along with financial assistance up to Rs 2 lakh for quality testing and certification for the startup's ideas.

 

"Our goal is to make the state number one in various skill development schemes and startups. A number of schemes have been undertaken for this purpose and new schemes will be added in the future as well. It has been proposed to set up an international standard Center for Skill Development in Mumbai and courses in ITIs are being updated in a timely manner," Malik said.

 

 

Well what's new to say? In a sync to Centre's Start up initiative, the Maharashtra government led by the then Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had already assured small businesses and venture investors that he would take necessary steps to make Mumbai and Maharashtra the capital for startups. Catering to the lable, he then had channelised the immense energy, giving nation of more than a billion people embracing technology.

 

Today, the state government's data reveals that there have been 82 per cent increase in the Maharashtra startups and that the Centre and the state has played an important role in its development. While we can say that the state government today is in it's startup phase (first three years of any startup is considered a startup anyway), what social

and financial ecosystem is it building for itself?

 

"There are highly intelligent youths in urban and rural areas of Maharashtra and the Skills Development Department should take up the task of crafting these diamonds," Thackeray was quoted in the statement. Skills Development Minister Nawab Malik meanwhile pointed out that the state was ranked second in the India Innovation Index released by the NITI AYOG recently. Isn't this all the gift of the previous ruling government?

 

Fadnavis had come up with an idea for startups somebody never had earlier come up with. But the same was not supported by the so called powerful ecosystem then. And now, again the same so called powerful ecosystem comes up with a similar idea taking credits for the development already happened? Blue, but it's true! That's what we have been experiencing in MH politics!

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