Newsinc24 Team Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has launched Student Start-ups and Innovation Policy (SSIP) 2.0 which is aimed at financially supporting school students in innovation. He announced the policy, while inaugurating the two-day International Conference on Academic Institutions at Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. This policy has a provision of setting up active innovation and incubation centres across all universities in the state. It intends to cover 50 lakh students across One thousand higher education institutes and 10 thousand schools of innovation and entrepreneurship.
SSIP 2.0 is being launched with a vision of sustainable development and inclusive growth towards the realisation of Aatmanirbhar Gujarat. It will provides support for “any person up to the age of 35 years, who is, a school student of foundational, preparatory, middle, secondary level (upto Class 12), a diploma, vocational, undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral student or an alumna, alumnus or any dropout from school, institute, university. In the SSIP 2.0 the overall financial support for the period of five years has been increased by two and a half times from Rs 200 to Rs 500 crore. The state will allocate Rs 300 crore and Rs 200 crore will be raised through matching contributions and external sources.
