Goyal suggests setting up township for startups

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday suggested setting up a township dedicated to entrepreneurs and startups, aiming to replicate success of American Silicon Valley. He also asked startups to participate in official delegation visits to different countries as it gives a good exposure to m.
 

"We should be aspiring to go beyond. We should be aspiring to have our Silicon Valley. I know Bengaluru is Silicon Valley of India. But I think it's time we also start thinking in terms of maybe tying up with NICDC and creating a whole new township dedicated to entrepreneurs, startups, innovators, and disruptors...," he said.

National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) is implementing National Industrial Corridor Development Programme, which is an ambitious infrastructure programme aiming to develop new industrial cities as smart cities. y are developing 20 such townships in different parts of country, including Bihar , Gujarat , and Andhra Presh. minister was dressing startup players during launch of Bharat Startup Knowledge Access Registry (BHASKAR) Portal in national capital.

"Can we create a society, or a whole 200 (or) 100 (or) 500-acre area land... see wher we can create some ecosystem... wher its somebody coming from a very far-off place with an idea, who does not know where and whom to connect with can land up re (in township) like once upon a time people used to come to Mumbai," Goyal said.
minister encouraged young entrepreneurs to look internationally and become world players as tremendous opportunities are re.