Startup India challenges and programmes
Open innovation calls, grand challenges and recognition-linked programmes seeking solutions from startups.
GUIDANCE CENTRE
Open calls, procurement routes and consultations on one side; the law, the standards and the free lookups on the other. The first track deliberately reaches beyond MCA, because a company incorporated here goes on to sell, build and apply across departments, so every card names the ministry that owns it.
A 65-second registration walkthrough: the name check, incorporation, and the filing calendar that starts the moment a company exists.
A walkthrough of this portal — two minutes, narrated by the person who built it. The route a citizen takes: the front door, the company register and the fee split, a name refused under rule 8A before any money is paid, what a late company owes at Rs 100 a day, and the two assistants doing different jobs — Guided Assistance pointing at a control without ever typing into it, and the intake agent reading a Hinglish sentence into the registration form. Every screen is the running service and every figure on it was computed by the live engines during the recording. Nothing in it was filed.
How it works — the longer cut, for anyone who wants the machinery: the filing review that raises an SRN and files nothing, the agent calling compute_exposure and being refused a figure of its own, the trace every answer writes about itself, why this model was chosen on tool-call reliability rather than price, and the MCP surface where no tool accepts a CIN, a DIN or a PAN.
The WhatsApp channel, answering — the thread on /whatsapp taking real questions and returning figures computed by the same engines /compliance uses, with the provenance line under each reply stating whether account data was touched and how many model calls it took. It reads zero, because legal content never touches a model. No WhatsApp sender number is connected, so nothing in this film shows a phone messaging the service — the router, the webhook and the reply logic run; the number is a provisioning step that has not been completed.
Both were generated with AI assistance for this prototype and reviewed against the same rule set the calculators run — the figures in them are the engine's figures, not a narrator's. Neither is an MCA publication.
Open innovation calls, grand challenges and recognition-linked programmes seeking solutions from startups.
Defence and aerospace problem statements opened to startups and MSMEs, with funding support.
A route for recognised startups to sell innovative products to government buyers without prior turnover history.
Live central tenders and bid documents across ministries and public sector undertakings.
Public consultations, policy drafts open for comment, and citizen innovation tasks.
Projects seeking CSR funding, and the route for implementing agencies to list themselves.
Grant-backed calls for biotech and health innovation from early stage to scale-up.
Eligibility-matched discovery across central and state schemes, grants and subsidies.
Compute access, foundation-model support, dataset and application challenges under the national AI programme.
Open datasets and models for building and evaluating Indian AI systems.
Advisories and governance frameworks that shape what an AI product must disclose and document in India.
Problem statements on farm mechanisation, advisory, post-harvest handling and market linkage.
Grant-backed incubation for agri-startups through recognised agri-business incubators.
Farmer registry, crop survey and geo-referenced land data being built as public digital infrastructure.
Refinance, rural innovation and producer-organisation support relevant to agri ventures.