The Chhattisgarh Government is in the process of setting up an IT & ITeS BPO Center in Rajnandgaon district, officials informed.
The facility is being set up by District e-Governance Society.
A total of 800 seats had been allocated in Chhattisgarh out of 1100 under India BPO Promotion Scheme so far.
The Chhattisgarh Government is also setting up an Incubator for promotion of livelihood activities In Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), agriculture and allied sectors with market linkage in Rajnandgaon district, officials informed.
Notably, Chhattisgarh has started adapting the best policy practices from the fastest growing entrepreneurial eco-systems, like in Singapore and the Silicon Valley, to accelerate entrepreneurial growth to provide a major push to the 'Startup Chhattisgarh' programme, officials informed.
It is now aggressively inviting new entrepreneurs, investors and startup leaders from across the globe to become part of the startup ecosystem.
The Government also has plans to establish state-of-the-art innovation/research infrastructure at the universities and colleges in emerging fields such as biotechnology and Internet of Things (IoT), Agriculture and Food Processing so that innovators can build new products.
It also has plans to establish district specific knowledge banks to bring all the entrepreneurial opportunities in food processing, manufacturing and value addition etc under one roof.
Notably, Chhattisgarh launched its first ever ‘Mission’ to aggressively promote Start-ups in the State with the launch of ‘Start-up Chhattisgarh’ at Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management & Technology in Raipur in November last year.
After launch of Start-Up India by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January, 2016, States were to prepare their action plan and were asked to start implementing the same.
In line with the Startup India Action plan, the State Government launched 'Start-up Chhattisgarh Action Plan 2016' for promoting Start-ups in Chhattisgarh and announced that 'boot camps' would cover all 27 districts of the State.
The State Government has provisioned Rs 3 crore in the budget of fiscal year 2017-18 for Start-up Chhattisgarh programme.
The ‘Start-up Chhattisgarh’ programme has been initiated to spread awareness regarding entrepreneurship and to educate and empower the aspiring entrepreneurs in setting up enterprise.
Under this programme, selected ideas are being provided conceptual financial, and technical support for entrepreneurial welfare.
Youngsters are showing keen interest in Start-up Chhattisgarh scheme by actively participating in the seminars cum boot camps being organized in various districts, officials informed.