CM launches start-up cohort of startup Manipur

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh today launched the Start-up Cohort of Startup Manipur and XR for Start-up Roadshow today in Imphal.

The XR Startup program aims to accelerate India’s contribution towards building the foundation of the metaverse and nurturing the development of Extended Reality (XR) technologies.

Speaking as the chief guest of the function, the Chief Minister thanked all concerned including Sikkim Manipal University, NITI Aayog, Manipur Technical University for bringing the world to the tiny state of Manipur through Meta, and added that involvement of Meta means the whole world is looking.

The Chief Minister further explained the significance of the StartUp Manipur and emphasized that the people cannot depend only on the Government for employment, and that such schemes like the StartUp are providing employment to the youths of the State. He added that we are not only providing employment through such schemes but we have also started exporting products of the State including black rice, pineapples, etc. to the outside world.

He also said that every Central Ministry has been cooperative and supportive to the State and that he is expecting further more, because Manipur is marching ahead, he added.

He said we could have had incubation centres earlier, but we don’t have the infrastructure and functioning of Manipur Technical University was also delayed due to certain issues.

The Chief Minister also stressed that we have the potential and resources, especially human resource, but we are not exploring, utilizing it properly.

Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog, Dr Chintan Vaishnav said what we have learnt from the Atal Innovation Mission is that for every rupee we have invested in the innovation mission, for the eco-system, we have received about Rs.17 in return. There are bases to create entrepreneurship in places that are appropriate to the place, to the skill, to the capabilities, to the aspiration of the people, he added.

He also said that India has about 77,000 registered start-ups, and one start-up on average creates 11 jobs, which is about seven and a half lakh jobs in total.

The launch of the “Start-up Cohort of Startup Manipur and XR for Start-up Roadshow” was organized by the Start-Up Incubation Center-Manipur Technical University and Atal Incubation Centre- Sikkim Manipal University Technology Business Incubation Foundation supported by the Planning Department, Government of Manipur.

Additional Chief Secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam, MTU, Vice Chancellor Dr. Bhabeswar Tongbram, Vice-Chancellor, SMU, Dr. (Veteran Lt. Gen) Rajan S Grewal, MEITY Start-up HUB (MHS) Government of India CEO Jeet Vijay, Public Policy Director META Sunil Abraham among others attended the function.

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