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Date : 28 Jan 2022
Swachhata Start-Up Challenge
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- Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India,in partnership with Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) launched the Swachhata Start-Up Challenge to provide an impetus to innovative start-ups to come forward and drive catalytic transformation in the sanitation and waste management sector.
About the Initiatives taken to revolutionize India’s waste management sector
- In line with initiatives for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Make in India’, the Challenge seeks to promote an enabling environment for enterprise development under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0).
- With the appetite for risk and spirit of innovation at its core, the start-up space holds immense potential to revolutionize India’s waste management sector.
- This is also aligned to the vision of SBM-U 2.0 launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister on 1st October 2021, which is focused on encouraging the adoption of locally innovated, implementable solutions and business models in sanitation and waste management.
- The Swachhata Start-Up Challenge launched aims to capitalise on the start-up movement by providing opportunities for entrepreneurship to young innovators to create socially impactful and market ready business solutions.
- The Challenge, which is open to start-ups registered in India and French actors collaborating with an Indian start-up (as a joint venture), invites solutions across four thematic areas viz.
(i) social inclusion,
(ii) zero dump (solid waste management),
(iii) plastic waste management and
(iv) transparency through digital enablement.
Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0
(ii) zero dump (solid waste management),
(iii) plastic waste management and
(iv) transparency through digital enablement.
- Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0, launched on 1st October 2021, aims to achieve the vision of ‘Garbage Free Cities’ over the next five years through remediation of legacy dumpsites, construction and demolition waste and plastic waste management.
- Additionally, sustainable sanitation through faecal sludge and used water management will be a key focus under SBM-U 2.0
