Aspire - A Scheme for Promotion of Innovation, Rural Industries and Entrepreneurship

Brief

ASPIRE- was launched to set up a network of technology centers and to set up incubation centers to accelerate entrepreneurship and to promote start-ups for innovation in the agriculture industry with the following objectives:

To generate employment opportunities by facilitating formal, scalable micro- enterprise creation.

To skill, up-skill, re-skill unemployed, existing self-employed/ wage earners in new technologies.

To provide skilled human capital to nearby industrial clusters and promote innovations for strengthening the competitiveness in the MSME sector

Eligibility

• Any agency/institution of Government of India, State government or existing training centers under Ministries/Departments of Government of India/State Government, Industry Associations, Academic Institutions.
• Any not-for-profit private institutions with experience in successfully executing incubation and/or skill development programs may be eligible to set up an LBI.

• Any agency/institution of Government of India, State government or existing training centers under Ministries/Departments of Government of India/State Government, Industry Associations, Academic Institutions.
• Any not-for-profit private institutions with experience in successfully executing incubation and/or skill development programs may be eligible to set up an LBI.

Online / portal

Official application / information link: https://aspire.msme.gov.in/ASPIRE/AFHome.aspx

Source listing: https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/government-schemes.html