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• Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Suresh Prabhu launched three tools – States and Union Territory Startup Ranking Framework, Compendium of Good Practices for Promoting Startups in India and the Startup India Kit – for ranking States and Union Territories (UTs) on startup ecosystem. Main objective of this tool is to encourage States and UTs to take proactive steps for strengthening the Startup ecosystems at the local level.
• Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Science & Technology, has formulated a mechanism in CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) to facilitate regular interface with small-scale industry for transfer of technologies from CSIR laboratories. An announcement regarding this was made during a meeting with members of Laghu Udyog Bharati, an all-India organisation of small scale industries.
• At 25th meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council held in New Delhi on January 18, 2018, it was recomme.........
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