Our Vision:

To empower the youth of Manipur to become job creators by fostering entrepreneurship and a culture of innovation through the most enabling ecosystem to support and nurture Startups to make Manipur emerge as one of the top Startup destinations in the North East.

Our Mission:

  1. To encourage and inspire the youth of Manipur to actively consider entrepreneurship as a career choice thereby producing an entrepreneur in every family
  2. To support and strengthen business incubators & accelerators in the State for creating enabling environment and supporting eco-system that facilitates about 40% women startups in next five years.
  3. To strengthen the startup culture in the State by fostering greater social acceptance and recognition of promising start-ups, through strategic investment, policy interventions and such other programmes.
  4. To encourage setting up new business incubators in the State, also in collaboration with private sector.
  5. To continuously provide enabling mechanisms to startups, through training and skill development, capacity building, networking, access to knowledge & support services, etc.
  6. To implement a supportive regulatory framework that enables hassle-free and time bound statutory clearances for all start-ups.
  7. To provide appropriate infrastructural support required to enable start-ups to set up and grow rapidly.
  8. To create a platform for accessing multiple avenues that provide financial support to start-ups in Manipur, like venture funds, grants, bank loans, fiscal incentives, etc.
  1. To strengthen the start-up culture in the State by fostering greater social acceptance and recognition of promising start-ups, through strategic investment, policy interventions and such other programmes.
  2. Encourage and inspire the youth of Manipur to actively consider entrepreneurship as a career choice by including appropriate learning modules, developing relevant entrepreneurship development programs in vocational institutions, and supporting outreach programs, interactions with entrepreneurs, e-cells and entrepreneurship development centres across educational institutions in the State.
  3. To support and strengthen existing business incubators & accelerators in the State.
  4. To encourage setting up new business incubators in the State in collaboration with private sector.
  5. To continuously provide enabling mechanisms to start-ups, through training and skill development, capacity building, networking, access to knowledge & support services, etc.
  6. To implement a supportive regulatory framework that enables hassle-free and time bound statutory clearances for all start-ups.
  7. To provide appropriate infrastructural support required to enable start-ups to set up and grow rapidly.
  8. To create a platform for accessing multiple avenues that provide financial support to start-ups in Manipur, like grants, bank loans, fiscal incentives, etc.
  9. To create enabling environment and supporting eco-system that facilitates 1000 start-ups in next five years.
  10. Growth of start-ups would be largely sector-agnostic, it would be appropriate to give added focus to areas particularly suitable for Manipur :-
    • Entrepreneurship initiatives that enable sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development across the whole State.
    • Entrepreneurship development activities that leverage the natural resources, human skills and other strength areas of the State.
    • Innovative ideas, new business domains and sectors that have high future growth potential would be encouraged.
    • Particular encouragement to sectors and capabilities that can catalyze growth across multiple industries, or can have a multiplier effect.

Planning Department is the Nodal Department for implementation of Startup Scheme in the state and administrative secretary (Planning) will be the nodal officer assisted by Director (Planning).

Startup Cell consist of:

  1. Director (Planning)
  2. Director, MSME-DI Imphal, GOI or Assistant Director (MSME-DI. Imphal) as his representative
  3. One representative from Directorate of Trade Commerce &Inds Deptt.
  4. One representative from Department of information and Technology
  5. Shri Jagat Thoudam Consultant StartUP Cell Planning
  6. Managing Director of the IT partner firm (presently M/S Globizs Web Solution Pvt Ltd)
  7. Joint Director (concerned), Planning Department
  8. Dr R K Tombisana Singh, ARO (Planning)
  9. Shri H Homendra Singh, / ARO