Bhubaneswar, June 27 (KNN) While interacting with the startups, the State Minister for MSME, Energy and Home Captain Dibya Shankar Mishra reiterated that development of the startup ecosystem in Odisha remains the top priority of the government and that the next phase of the program shall be expanded to districts by the establishment of Start-up development cells.

Moreover, he added that the all possible support required and necessary will be given to start-ups to scale up their ventures.

Additional Chief Secretary, MSME L.N. Gupta said that in the last years there have been an expansion of about 433 startups which have been registered with the Startup Odisha and out of these 138 are women-led startups.

He further said that 84 Grants gave have been awarded to the recognized startups and incubators. Besides, 12 incubators and 13 Nobel Agencies are working to assist the startups recognized with the startup Odisha.

On the request of the startups, it was decided to organize a ‘Start-up Job Mela’ to connect start-ups as recruiters and talent available from different technical institutions after the request was made by start-ups. (KNN/Lavannya)