World Trade Center Bhubaneswar in association with Start-up Odisha initiated a series of workshops in order to enable and engage the start-ups by enhancing their market penetration capacities. After a highly impactful session in this series on Government e-marketplace the second and subsequent session was organized on Start-up India Process Orientation.

 
Mr. Vishnu Nagaraj, Start-up Evangelist addressed the start-ups on the process of registration with Start-up India. He made a detailed presentation highlighting the entire process as well as explained the benefits of DPIIT recognition. He deliberated on how under the Start-up India initiative eligible companies can get recognised as Start-ups by DPIIT and access a host of tax benefits, easier compliance, IPR fast-tracking etc. He demonstrated on the concept of pitch desk and note of innovation and briefed about the seed fund schemes recently launched by Government of India.

Mr Sudhanshu Pradhan, GeM Business Facilitator-Odisha also took the session further where he made a presentation explaining the fundamentals of GeM he explained in detail about the 10 start-up subsectors, tender identification and participation process.

Ms. Nimeshika Natarajan, Assistant Director, World Trade Center Bhubaneswar earlier in her welcome address spoke about the importance of the subject and urged the start-ups to get themselves registered with the digital portals for the benefit of their businesses and attain the deserved outreach for their innovation.

 A lively question answer session added much value to the program.