Question 1

Is Startup India registration free, and who is eligible?

Accepted Answer

Startups certified by the Department of Industries as the policy's nodal agency, and registered with a recognised incubation centre, are eligible for Bihar Start-Up Policy incentives. Threshold: Certification by the Department of Industries as nodal agency, plus registration with a recognised incubation centre; achievement of the appropriate business stage for stage-specific benefits. Statute: Bihar Start-Up Policy, 2022 (2022-2027) Key incentives as published: Seed Grant up to ₹10 lakh per start-up as a 10-year interest-free loan (validation/prototyping/market research stage); Success Fee of 2% of capital raised from state-registered Angel Investors; government-borne domestic patent filing costs plus reimbursement of awarded foreign patent filing fees; free company-valuation services at the commercialisation stage; additional support of +5% for women-led start-ups, +5% for SC/ST founders, +15% for differently-abled entrepreneurs, with 22% of total start-up funding reserved for SC/ST categories. Contact published: startup-bihar@gov.in / 18003456214.

Question 2

Startup incentives — Haryana

Accepted Answer

Haryana runs a dedicated State Startup Policy with the Department of Industries and Commerce as nodal agency; the incentive schedule is published on the Government of India's Startup India portal state-policy page. Threshold: Startups and incubators recognised under the policy; separate tracks for startups, incubators, investors and institutions, with women-founded startups receiving an enhanced lease-rental rate. Fee basis: reimbursement- and grant-based incentives rather than a fee; the principal published rupee figures for startups, incubators, institutions and investors are listed in slabs Slabs: Startups - lease rental subsidy: 30% of lease rental reimbursed (45% for women-founded startups) for 1 year, capped at — INR 500000; Startups - patent cost reimbursement: 100% of eligible expenses, national patents capped per patent at — INR 300000; Startups - patent cost reimbursement: international patents capped per patent at — INR 1000000; Startups - patent cost reimbursement: five-year cumulative cap — INR 2500000; Startups - seed funding, up to, per startup — INR 1000000; Startups - cloud storage reimbursement: 75% of expenses for 5 years, annual cap per startup — INR 250000; Startups - acceleration programme assistance, annual cap per financial year — INR 250000; Incubators - capital subsidy: 50% of capital investment, government institutes capped at — INR 20000000; Incubators - capital subsidy: 50% of capital investment, private institutes capped at — INR 10000000; Incubators - lease rent reimbursement: 50% for 3 years, annual cap per incubator — INR 500000; Institutions - setting up an incubation centre in a government university, assistance per incubator — INR 5000000; Investors - state Fund of Funds corpus over 5 years — INR 1000000000 Statute: Haryana State Startup Policy 2022 Upgraded from unavailable. Also published on the same page and not reduced to slabs above: SGST reimbursement of 50% of net SGST for 7 years capped at 100% of fixed capital investment; 100% reimbursement of stamp duty and registration fees for incubators; electricity duty exemption of 100% for 12 years in category D blocks, 10 years in C and 7 years in B; mentoring assistance of Rs 2.5 lakh per incubator within an annual state cap of Rs 25 lakh; up to Rs 50 lakh per fair/exhibition for a maximum of 12 events a year; an IT Startups Warehouse and a Mobile App Development Centre at Rs 4 crore capital each with recurring support; and Rs 20 lakh per startup competition. investharyana.in was NOT used as a source - it is a non-gov.in domain and last session returned only a client-side JS shell.

Question 3

Startup incentives — Arunachal Pradesh

Accepted Answer

Confirmed directly on the state's own official startup portal: a tiered Seed Fund Scheme plus non-fiscal benefits for DPIIT/state-recognised startups. Threshold: Applicable to DPIIT/state-recognised startups meeting the policy's eligibility criteria Fee basis: Seed Fund Scheme grants by stage, read directly from the official portal's Schemes & Benefits page Slabs: Idea Support (Stage 1) — Grand Challenge top 10 winners — INR 500000; Idea Support (Stage 1) — Grand Challenge next 40 — INR 400000; Innovation Fund (Stage 2) — Proof of Concept — INR 1000000; Innovation Fund (Stage 2) — Research & Development — INR 500000; Innovation Fund (Stage 2) — Indian patent registration — INR 10000; Innovation Fund (Stage 2) — International patent — INR 100000; Innovation Fund (Stage 2) — Quality certification — INR 500000; Innovation Fund (Stage 2) — Rental subsidy (domicile incentive) — INR 100000; Innovation Fund (Stage 2) — Women/differently-abled employee hiring — INR 40000; Infrastructure Fund (Stage 3) — Scale-up grant — INR 2500000; Infrastructure Fund (Stage 3) — Digital upscaling — INR 1000000 Statute: Arunachal Pradesh Startup Policy (Seed Fund Scheme); Arunachal Pradesh State Industrial and Investment Policy, 2020 / Industrial Development and Investment Policy, 2025 Non-fiscal benefits also listed on the same page: purchase preference in state procurement, relaxed public-procurement requirements, GeM Startup Runway access, trial-order opportunities, and self-certification/compliance support.

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