State government startup schemes

Every major Indian state runs its own startup policy, and the support on offer — seed grants, interest subvention, patent-cost reimbursement, rent subsidy — is frequently more accessible than central schemes because the applicant pool is smaller. The catch is that almost all of them require your registered office, and sometimes your operations, to be in that state.

State schemes also change with policy cycles in a way central schemes do not: a state startup policy typically runs a fixed multi-year term and is then revised, so an entry that was accurate last year may describe a lapsed policy. Each entry here links to the official state portal, which is the position of record.