Context
The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in partnership with the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has launched the Swachhata Start-Up Challenge under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0.
What is the Swachhata Start-Up Challenge?
- Swachhata Start-Up Challenge aims to provide an impetus to innovative start-ups to come forward and drive catalytic transformation in the sanitation and waste management sector.
- Swachhata Start-Up Challenge aims to promote an enabling environment for enterprise development under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0).
- Swachhata Start-Up Challenge aims to capitalize on the start-up movement by providing opportunities for entrepreneurship to young innovators to create socially impactful and market-ready business solutions.
- Eligibility: The challenge is open to-
- Start-ups registered in India.
- French actors collaborating with an Indian start-up (as a joint venture).
- Thematic Areas: The challenge is open across four thematic areas viz.
- Social inclusion
- Zero dump (solid waste management)
- Plastic waste management
- Transparency through digital enablement
Awards and Prizes given under Swachhata Start-Up Challenge
- Top 10 startups to receive ?25 lakhs along with one year of dedicated incubation support from French Tech, the French government’s initiative to promote start-ups.
- Eligible startups will get additional incentives which include up to ? 50 Lakhs follow-on investment from Villgro, the implementation partner of the Challenge and up to 100,000 USD worth of credits and technology support from technology partner Amazon Web Services, to each winner.
Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0
- SBM-U 2.0 was launched on 1st October 2021 to achieve the vision of ‘Garbage Free Cities Over the next five years.
- It focuses on source segregation of garbage, reduction in single-use plastic and air pollution, by effectively managing waste from construction and demolition activities and bioremediation of all legacy dump sites.
- Under this mission, all wastewater will be treated properly before it is discharged into water bodies, and the government is trying to make maximum reuse a priority.
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