Ministry of Development of North-East Region
Startups in the North Eastern Region
Posted On:
13 FEB 2025 2:01PM by PIB Delhi
The Government, with an intent to build a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation, startups and encouraging investments in the startup ecosystem of the country launched the Startup India initiative on 16th January 2016. The State-wise number of entities in the NER which have been recognized as startups by DPIIT as on 31st December 2024 are provided below:
|
State/UT
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Number of entities which have recognized as startups by DPIIT
|
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Arunachal Pradesh
|
47
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Assam
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1487
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Manipur
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179
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Meghalaya
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62
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Mizoram
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41
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Nagaland
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85
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Sikkim
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12
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Tripura
|
141
|
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Total
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2054
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In addition to the above, North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd., a NBFC under the administrative control of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region through the North East Enterprise Development Scheme (NEEDS) scheme has been supporting first-generation entrepreneurs for developing start-up ecosystem of North East Region of India.
This information was given by the Minister of State of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region Dr. Sukanta Majumdar in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
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