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Nation National Startup Day
NATIONAL STARTUP DAY - 16 JANUARY
STARTUP-UNICORNS ARE BECOMING
THE PILLARS OF NEW INDIA
Pune based Mayur Patil, while studying ndia always has the instinct to innovate and solve
in college in 2011-12, experimented to problems with new ideas. In period before 2014, due to
increase the mileage of his motorcycle. Ithe absence of right ecosystem and clear policies the
In the year 2017-18, he developed an new and innovative solutions to the problems could not be
energy efficient technology and tried it realised. When the leadership changed in 2014, Startup
in the bus, which succeeded in reducing India was launched on January 16, 2016 to boost innovation
40% carbon emissions and 10% fuel and create a strong startup ecosystem in the country. The
consumption. He received patent for progress of the Startup India program has been spectacular
his technology and started a startup in a short span of 7 years. Taking the mantra of 'Innovation
for India' and 'Innovation from India', Indian startups are not
and factory with a grant of Rs 90 lakh only leading the world but are also becoming the pillars of
under the Atal New India Challenge New India.
(ANIC) initiative. Due to the capabilities Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the celebration
of the youth of our country, the Startup of National Startup Day on January 16 with an aim to take the
India programme, and the policies of message of growing strength of startups and enriching work
the present government that now such culture to every part of the country. This year the country is
startups are being started in big cities as celebrating the second National Startup Day. When the
well as in Tier-2, Tier-3 cities... new government was formed in 2014 under the leadership
of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there were less than 500
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