The Results of the first edition of National Startup Awards has released by Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal on 6thOctober, 2020 at 3:30 PM, at the National Media Centre, New Delhi.
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The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has conceived the first ever National Startup Awards.
It aims to recognize outstanding Startups and ecosystem enablers that are building innovative products or solutions and scalable enterprises, with high potential of employment generation or wealth creation, demonstrating measurable social impact.
The first edition of the Awards invited applications across 12 sectors which were further sub-classified into a total of 35 categories.
These 12 sectors are Agriculture, Education, Enterprise Technology, Energy, Finance, Food, Health, Industry 4.0, Space, Security, Tourism and Urban Services.
The winning Startups will get cash prizes of Rs 5 lakh each.
