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Showing all verified Central and State programs operating in Tamil Nadu supporting the science, technology & digital innovation sector.
Direct monthly basic income transfers of ₹1,000 reach eligible women household heads across Tamil Nadu through the landmark Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam. To promote educational persistence among girls from government schools, the Pudhumai Penn scheme delivers monthly stipends throughout their undergraduate studies. These programs are administered by the Special Programme Implementation Department and the Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Department.
All eligibility criteria, benefit amounts, and application portals listed here are sourced directly from official .gov.in / .nic.in portals and verified under Eligo's 180-day re-verification SLA.
Tamil Nadu Government program: Competitive innovation grant for software developers, bio-engineers, and researchers developing indigenous AI & healthcare solutions.
Tamil Nadu Government program: Seed funding for young engineers building low-cost agricultural spray drones, soil sampling rovers, and automated sorting machines.
Advanced industry-led skilling centres established with global automotive, healthcare, and logistics leaders to train technicians on modern EV assembly lines and robotic surgery.
Provides DGCA-certified drone pilot licensing and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operation training for agricultural spraying and mapping.
Tamil Nadu Government program: Financial assistance for electronic hardware MSMEs to procure testing equipment, SMD placement stations, and circuit analyzers.
Tamil Nadu Government program: Monthly sustenance allowance and prototype seed capital for tech startups registered under the state startup innovation policy.
Provides financial assistance to university and college students to conduct innovative scientific and technological research projects.
Tamil Nadu Government program: Free distribution of 4G-enabled tablets and smartphones to undergraduate, postgraduate, and diploma students across the state.
Provides seed grants and lab commercialization support for cutting-edge deep tech and emerging technology hardware/software startups.
Transforms village panchayats into digitally empowered hubs with high-speed fiber connectivity, e-Sevai kiosks, and public digital literacy.
₹37,000 to ₹42,000 monthly fellowship plus contingency for full-time Ph.D. scholars in thrust technical domains available across districts in All India.
₹12,400 monthly scholarship for GATE, CEED, and GPAT qualified students admitted to M.Tech/M.Pharm programs available across districts in All India.
Central health scheme offering financial grants up to Rs. 10 Crore for establishing Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Ayush tertiary hospitals and funding community health interventions for anemia and geriatric care.
Apex national research body providing catalytic funding and strategic direction for scientific research, innovation, and university labs across India.
Apex scientific funding body with Rs. 50,000 crore outlay providing core research grants, high-end instrumentation, and international collaborative funding across universities and tier-2/3 colleges.
Ministry of Earth Sciences umbrella scheme allocating ₹2,135 crore to deliver accurate weather, monsoon, and cyclone forecasts.
Standardization, nutritional labeling, and public distribution of traditional Ayurvedic healthy recipes and fortified foods.
National integrated digital network connecting 12,500+ Ayush wellness centres, hospitals, and registered practitioners available across districts in All India.
DPIIT-aligned fund-of-funds where BIRAC commits up to ₹3 Crore per startup alongside vetted Venture Capital funds to accelerate growth-stage biotech scale-ups.
National digital healthcare innovation competition deploying AI, tele-diagnostics, and IoT solutions to bridge healthcare delivery gaps in rural and primary health centres.
BIRAC proof-of-concept funding granting up to ₹50 Lakh for biotechnology innovations in climate-resilient crops, bio-fertilizers, pest management, and Agri-tech.
BIRAC ignition grant targeted at biopharmaceutical innovators creating monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, and cell therapies.
Flagship grant-in-aid of up to ₹50 Lakh provided by BIRAC to individual researchers and early-stage biotech startups to establish proof-of-concept in biopharmaceuticals and drug discovery.
BIRAC innovation grant supporting novel enzymatic processes, synthetic biology, microbial fermentation, and biofuels to decarbonize industrial manufacturing.
BIRAC grant supporting development of point-of-care diagnostics, wearable medical sensors, and affordable biomedical hardware tailored to Indian healthcare settings.
Government-industry cost-sharing partnership providing financial support up to ₹10 Crore to Indian biotech companies for high-risk industrial biomanufacturing scale-up.
BIRAC industry funding scheme supporting cutting-edge pre-clinical toxicology, pharmacokinetic assays, and novel drug molecule discovery.
BIRAC angel investor network initiative mobilizing private high-net-worth angel capital into early-stage biotech, medtech, and agritech startups.
BIRAC infrastructure funding scheme establishing world-class bio-incubation centers with shared laboratories, bioreactors, and analytical clean rooms across India.
Joint strategic platform by BIRAC, ICMR, and CDSCO providing end-to-end regulatory navigation, pre-clinical testing guidance, and clinical trial clearances for indigenous medtech innovators.
National Biopharma Mission targeted program funding indigenous CAR-T cell therapies, gene editing vectors, and monoclonal antibodies for cancer and rare diseases.
NBM infrastructure and grant support to design, prototype, and pilot-test high-end medical equipment (MRI, ultrasound, cath labs, hemodialysis machines) indigenously.
NBM capital subsidy initiative setting up contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) and shared bioprocess pilot plants for startups.
Flagship industry-academia partnership mission co-funded by World Bank and BIRAC supporting clinical development of novel and affordable vaccines for endemic diseases.
BIRAC academic grant supporting university researchers to discover novel biotechnology leads and validate proof-of-concept for commercial potential.
BIRAC collaborative funding mechanism where an industrial enterprise validates and scales up an academic laboratory discovery through joint contract research.
Decentralized BIRAC capacity scheme establishing regional entrepreneurship knowledge cells (BREC, BRIC) to train aspiring founders in tier-2/3 biotech ecosystems.
The first public-private partnership initiative in biotech providing grant funding up to ₹1 Crore for early-stage validation and proof-of-concept in MSMEs.
BIRAC soft loan and grant initiative helping biotech small businesses take validated technologies through multi-centric field trials and pilot plant validation.
Equity/quasi-equity seed capital up to ₹30 Lakh provided through approved BioNEST incubators to early-stage biotech startups facing commercialization capital gaps.
BIRAC social innovation grant awarding up to ₹50 Lakh for affordable healthcare, menstrual hygiene, water decontamination, and rural sanitation technologies.
BIRAC initiative empowering innovators to engineer affordable prosthetics, hearing implants, braille reading devices, and mobility aids for persons with disabilities.
BIRAC targeted social innovation challenge funding affordable fortified foods, micronutrient delivery, and non-invasive malnutrition screening devices.
BIRAC national recognition award and accelerator grant celebrating meritorious women entrepreneurs in biotechnology, medical devices, and diagnostics.
BIRAC youth fellowship fostering culture of entrepreneurship among undergraduate and postgraduate students in universities through dedicated research stipends.
BIRAC student prototyping grant providing up to ₹7.5 Lakh to interdisciplinary teams of doctoral and master's scholars to convert academic hypotheses into validated prototypes.
Department of Atomic Energy grants supporting university faculty and national lab scientists in nuclear sciences, radio-isotopes, and advanced materials.
Mega telecom infrastructure initiative providing high-speed optical fibre broadband highway (100 Mbps to 1 Gbps) across all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats and 6 lakh villages in India.
Equity-free grant of up to ₹50 Lakh for 18 months for biotech innovators and early-stage life science startups available across districts in All India.
BIRAC flagship grant providing up to ₹50 Lakhs early-stage ignition grant-in-aid to biotech researchers, entrepreneurs, and startups.
Department of Atomic Energy research grant supporting academic research in nuclear sciences, engineering, and medical isotopes.
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing national supercomputing training providing hands-on access to India's PARAM supercomputers and MPI/OpenMP parallel coding.
National fellowship by C-DAC providing doctoral and postdoctoral scholars dedicated continuous access to high-end multi-GPU nodes to train large AI models.
National Supercomputing Mission program allocating millions of free supercomputing core-hours on PARAM systems to academic researchers and doctoral scholars.
NSM initiative providing subsidized supercomputer compute clusters and GPU nodes to deeptech startups and engineering MSMEs to run complex simulations.
C-DAC flagship 6-month full-time postgraduate program in software engineering, offering tuition waivers and placement assistance for top qualifiers in the CCAT exam.
C-DAC advanced diploma course in computer vision, natural language processing, generative AI, and reinforcement learning with merit scholarships.
C-DAC postgraduate diploma specializing in machine learning, Apache Spark, Python for data science, and deep neural networks with merit scholarships.
C-DAC post-graduate course training engineers in medical sensor calibration, healthcare IoT, biosignal acquisition (ECG, EEG), and CDSCO/FDA compliance.
C-DAC specialized post-graduate diploma preparing engineers for automotive, IoT, and industrial embedded programming using ARM Cortex and embedded Linux.
C-DAC specialized diploma program in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), satellite remote sensing, spatial database management, and drone photogrammetry.
C-DAC postgraduate program in network security, ethical hacking, digital forensics, and cloud infrastructure management with merit fee concessions.
C-DAC postgraduate diploma in native Android (Kotlin), iOS (Swift), cross-platform Flutter development, and mobile backend cloud architectures.
C-DAC postgraduate program in digital ASIC design, FPGA prototyping, Verilog/VHDL, and physical layout using industry-standard EDA tools.
Joint MeitY and IIT Madras initiative providing research grants and FPGA development boards to researchers building secure embedded systems on the SHAKTI processor.
C-DAC microprocessor program providing free open-source VEGA RISC-V processor IP cores, software development kits (SDK), and development boards to hardware startups.
C-DoT open testbed facility providing free access for private telecom equipment vendors to validate Open RAN radio units against an indigenous 5G Core network.
C-DoT grant supporting domestic hardware manufacturers to prototype Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) and XGS-PON equipment for BharatNet.
Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) sponsored research program funding academic institutions to solve specific foundational telecom engineering challenges.
Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences initiative providing research fellowships and studentship grants (₹50,000 SPARK grants) to promote scientific research among Ayurvedic students and scientists.
Research project grants up to ₹70 Lakh for clinical trials and evidence-based homeopathic validation for eligible citizen families across All India.
CSIR technical internship scheme providing hands-on training to brilliant fresh postgraduates and engineering graduates in national laboratories.
Annual national competition instituted by CSIR to foster creativity, intellectual property awareness, and innovative scientific thinking among school students.
CSIR national fellowship awarded through the Joint CSIR-UGC NET for doctoral scholars pursuing Ph.D. in organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical chemistry.
CSIR doctoral research fellowship for top rankers in Joint CSIR-UGC NET Earth Sciences to pursue Ph.D. in geology, geophysics, oceanography, and atmospheric sciences.
CSIR national doctoral research fellowship awarded to top qualifiers in Joint CSIR-UGC NET Life Sciences for Ph.D. research across biomedical and biological sciences.
CSIR doctoral research fellowship for top rankers in Joint CSIR-UGC NET Mathematical Sciences pursuing Ph.D. in pure and applied mathematics and statistics.
CSIR national doctoral research fellowship for qualifiers in Joint CSIR-UGC NET Physical Sciences conducting Ph.D. research in condensed matter, nuclear, and theoretical physics.
Fellowship of ₹37,000/month plus HRA and ₹20,000/year contingency for science graduates qualifying Joint CSIR-UGC NET exam.
Prestigious CSIR postdoctoral fellowship enabling top young doctorates to pursue high-impact research in premier CSIR national laboratories.
CSIR international sabbatical award granted to meritorious regular CSIR scientists to conduct research in globally renowned overseas research organizations.
CSIR post-doctoral research fellowship providing independent fellowship support to Ph.D. degree holders in science and engineering to pursue advanced research.
CSIR national placement scheme offering temporary scientific positions to highly qualified Indian scientists and engineers returning from abroad or within India.
CSIR direct senior research fellowship for experienced postgraduate researchers with proven research publications to complete their doctoral dissertations.
Direct fellowship of ₹42,000/month plus HRA for experienced post-graduate researchers with published research papers available across districts in All India.
Fellowship of ₹65,000/month plus ₹3 Lakh/year contingency for promising young PhD holders in CSIR national laboratories.
Human resource development and semiconductor design incubation programme under MeitY to train 85,000 specialized VLSI and embedded system engineers and facilitate silicon fabrication for academic institutions and startups.
Grants of up to ₹1.5 Crore to academic institutions and startups to train 85,000 semiconductor design engineers available across districts in All India.
Financial grant up to ₹10 Lakh for adopting patented eco-friendly coir processing machines transferred via DBT to verified beneficiary accounts.
MeitY national cybersecurity program providing institutional training, workshops, and toolkits for CISOs and IT officers.
Department of Atomic Energy research award providing up to ₹35 Lakh grant support to young faculty in nuclear sciences and allied fields.
DBT affirmative action program supporting unemployed or career-break women scientists in biotechnology and life sciences to return to mainstream research.
DBT institutional capacity program providing up to ₹5 Crore to state universities to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations across biology, chemistry, and computation.
Department of Biotechnology national fellowship awarded through the GAT-B / BET examination for top 275 rankers to pursue Ph.D. in biotechnology across India.
DBT national fellowship list qualifying top 100 meritorious students in BET exam for direct selection as Junior Research Fellows in ongoing DBT-funded extramural research projects.
DBT postdoctoral award scheme granting direct stipends to meritorious doctorates to undertake high-priority research in national life science centers.
Department of Biotechnology premier homecoming fellowship attracting outstanding Indian biotechnologists working abroad back to Indian research institutions.
Department of Biotechnology national postdoctoral program providing competitive fellowship and research support to young Ph.D. holders in life sciences.
DBT refresher training initiative for undergraduate and postgraduate college science teachers to upgrade pedagogical methods and modern molecular biology techniques.
DBT skill development initiative providing high-quality hands-on training to graduate and postgraduate students in specialized biotech instrumentation and biomanufacturing.
DBT vocational training initiative providing skill upgrading and hands-on maintenance training for laboratory technicians and operators of sophisticated bio-instruments.
DBT institutional capacity grant supporting undergraduate colleges to improve laboratory infrastructure and practical training in science subjects.
DSIR industrial research initiative facilitating affordable access to global technical standards, patent databases, and industrial scientific journals for MSMEs.
DSIR initiative establishing state-of-the-art shared industrial research hubs inside public research institutes to provide MSMEs with affordable analytical R&D infrastructure.
DSIR scheme supporting Indian industrial enterprises to acquire and absorb high-value foreign or domestic patents and adapt them for indigenous manufacturing.
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research grant providing up to ₹2 Lakh for individual grassroots innovators to establish proof-of-concept for original technological ideas.
DSIR prototyping grant granting up to ₹20 Lakh to individual innovators and tech professionals to build fully operational, engineered working prototypes.
DSIR commercialization grant awarding up to ₹50 Lakh to successful prototype innovators to establish a registered startup, secure certifications, and launch market trials.
DSIR institutional capacity grant providing funding to universities and autonomous technical colleges to operate TOCIC incubation centers for grassroots innovators.
DST dedicated infrastructure support program providing financial grants to all-women universities to establish modern state-of-the-art research laboratories.
DST infrastructure strengthening grant providing funding up to ₹10 Crore for higher education departments to acquire state-of-the-art scientific equipment and computational facilities.
DST transformational pilot charter creating gender-equitable institutional policies and assessment metrics to advance women in STEM careers in higher education.
Post-doctoral faculty fellowship offering young Indian scientists contractual research faculty positions with consolidated monthly remuneration and substantial research grants.
Prestigious doctoral research fellowship for 1st rank holders in university postgraduate science exams and INSPIRE scholars to pursue Ph.D. in Basic and Applied Sciences.
Department of Science and Technology summer camp internship program for top 1% meritorious class 11 students to interact with global science luminaries and Nobel laureates.
Flagship DST scholarship providing ₹80,000 per annum to top meritorious students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in natural and basic sciences.
National science innovation award executed jointly by DST and National Innovation Foundation (NIF) granting ₹10,000 to school students to build original scientific prototypes.
NIF national grant supporting unorganized rural inventors, mechanics, and farmers to patent, value-add, and commercially manufacture ingenious grassroots machines.
NIF fellowship supporting rural community youth to scout, document, and preserve traditional grassroots knowledge and folk innovations across Indian villages.
Flagship Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) grant providing a monthly subsistence fellowship of ₹30,000 for 12 months to aspiring tech entrepreneurs.
Flagship PRomoting and Accelerating Young and ASpiring innovators & startups (NIDHI-PRAYAS) grant offering up to ₹10 Lakh to build functional hardware proof-of-concept.
DST university-level research acceleration scheme providing holistic funding to research-performing universities based on h-index and scientific publications.
National shared instrumentation program funding regional analytical centers across India to provide affordable access to advanced NMR, SEM, HR-TEM, and XRD facilities.
Apex shared instrumentation facility scheme establishing centrally managed mega-technology clusters funded at ₹125 Crore per center to eliminate equipment redundancy.
DST societal empowerment research grant encouraging young researchers to address grassroots challenges in agriculture, sanitation, health, and renewable energy.
SERB mobility fellowship providing state university and college faculty access to top-tier research institutions (IITs, IISc, CSIR labs) with grants and stipends.
DST climate innovation grant awarding up to ₹3 Crore to research teams developing point-source carbon capture, carbon mineralization, and CO2-to-methanol conversion.
DST research funding providing up to ₹5 Crore for consortia developing solid-state batteries, sodium-ion cells, supercapacitors, and fast-charging power electronics.
DST national grant under the National Green Hydrogen Mission funding advanced electrolyzer membranes, non-precious catalysts, and solid-state metal hydride storage.
DST national affirmative initiative encouraging meritorious girls in classes 9 to 12 from tier-2 and rural districts to pursue higher education and careers in STEM.
DST initiative providing research support to senior women scientists nearing retirement or retired to continue their contributions to scientific research.
DST flagship fellowship for unemployed women scientists and technologists with a Ph.D. in Basic or Applied Sciences to re-enter mainstream research.
DST fellowship empowering women scientists and engineers to deploy science and technology solutions to resolve pressing grassroots societal challenges.
Pioneering mission to explore deep-sea resources, develop a human submersible (Matsya 6000) for 6,000-metre ocean depths, and harness blue economy mineral and biological wealth.
Financial support scheme offering up to 50% expenditure reimbursement (up to Rs. 15 crore) and 6% turnover royalties for domestic startups and MSMEs designing semiconductor chips and integrated circuits.
Flagship Digital India platform providing 1 GB of secure cloud storage to every citizen for authentic digital issuance and paperless verification of government and academic certificates.
Department of Telecommunications grant scheme funding telecom technology startups and MSMEs developing indigenous 5G and optical hardware.
AI-led public language technology mission under MeitY developing open-source datasets, automatic speech recognition, and neural machine translation models across all 22 scheduled Indian languages.
MeitY Bhashini mission fellowship awarding monthly stipends to native language scholars, linguists, and researchers for curating high-quality parallel text and voice corpora.
Bhashini competition awarding up to ₹25 Lakh to AI research labs and tech startups that beat state-of-the-art benchmarks in Indic Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR).
MeitY innovation grant awarding up to ₹15 Lakh to software teams building voice-first interfaces in regional dialects for illiterate and non-English-speaking citizens.
Monetary incentives and research fellowships for speech, translation, and NLP AI model development in 22 Indian languages.
DoT national infrastructure rollout setting up 100 dedicated 5G Use Case Labs across Indian engineering colleges to foster indigenous 5G app development.
Department of Telecommunications Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) scheme providing up to ₹10 Crore for indigenous 5G Core, Open RAN, and 6G terahertz research.
DoT TTDF funding grant awarding up to ₹8 Crore for indigenous dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), optical transceivers, and quantum-safe fiber encryption.
DoT USOF initiative awarding grants up to ₹5 Crore for innovative low-power wireless mesh, TV White Space, and solar-powered base stations for rural villages.
DoT funding scheme supporting non-terrestrial networks (NTN), direct-to-device satellite messaging, and phased-array satellite user terminals.
Department of Atomic Energy prestigious post-doctoral fellowship with absorption pathway into Scientific Officer positions.
Supply of climate-resilient breeder and foundation seeds of chickpea, pigeonpea, and lentils directly to farmers available across districts in All India.
Department of Science and Technology competitive capital grant scheme modernizing university science laboratories and equipment.
50% government course fee reimbursement up to ₹12,000 for acquiring certified skills in AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity, and Big Data.
Seed funding and market access support up to ₹25 Lakh for tech startups in Tier-II and Tier-III cities across India available across districts in All India.
IN-SPACe grant supporting aerospace startups designing rocket engines, 3D-printed thrusters, green propellants, and small satellite launch vehicles (SSLVs).
Department of Space seed funding providing grants up to ₹1 crore for early-stage space startups and non-government entities.
IN-SPACe grant offering up to ₹1 Crore for startups developing satellite imagery analytics, climate telemetry, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data applications.
Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) grant awarding up to ₹1 Crore for space startups engineering indigenous satellite payloads and avionics.
IN-SPACe program subsidizing up to 80% of testing charges for private space startups to conduct thermal vacuum, vibration, and radiation tests at ISRO centers.
Formal licensing mechanism by NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL) and IN-SPACe transferring flight-proven ISRO satellite and launch vehicle patents to private industry.
Prestigious post-doctoral fellowship offering Rs. 1,25,000 per month consolidated fellowship plus Rs. 7 lakh annual research grant for 5 years to top young scientists in basic and applied sciences.
Prestige research fellowship of ₹1.25 Lakh/month plus ₹7 Lakh/year research grant for young post-doctoral researchers available across districts in All India.
Direct fellowship support of ₹37,000/month for 1st rank holders in PG science & technology to pursue PhD supporting beneficiaries across All India.
Scholarship of ₹80,000 per annum for top 1% students pursuing BSc, BS, and Integrated MSc in natural sciences available across districts in All India.
Department of Space research grant scheme funding academic institutions to execute advanced R&D projects for national space missions.
Joint initiative of MoE and DST funding applied research projects addressing engineering challenges verified from official government notifications.
ISM incentive granting 4% to 6% cash rebate on net sales turnover for 5 years to semiconductor startups that achieve commercial volume production of indigenous chips.
Flagship ISM scheme providing up to 50% financial reimbursement (capped at ₹15 Crore per startup) for designing indigenous integrated circuits (ICs), chipsets, and System-on-Chips.
ISM national program providing free cloud-hosted Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software suites from Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens to early-stage chip startups.
Strategic national mission with Rs. 10,372 crore outlay establishing sovereign computing capacity of 10,000+ GPUs, high-quality open datasets, and funding for foundational AI models and startups.
Subsidized GPU supercomputing infrastructure (10,000+ GPUs) and innovation grants up to ₹1 Crore for Indian artificial intelligence startups and researchers.
Flagship defence entrepreneurship initiative offering grants-in-aid up to Rs. 1.5 crore (and up to Rs. 10 crore under iDEX Prime) to startups and MSMEs developing breakthrough military and aerospace technology.
Ministry of Defence grant scheme providing up to ₹10 Crore to startups and innovators developing capital-intensive military solutions.
Aadhaar-based biometric digital life certificate generation initiative for pensioners of Central Government, State Governments, and EPFO.
Indigenously developed Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL-4) certified anti-collision technology automatically applying train brakes to prevent Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD) and head-on collisions.
Direct financial subsidy of 50% up to ₹5 Lakh for individual farmers and 75% up to ₹7.5 Lakh for FPOs to buy agricultural spraying drones.
Free real-time multilingual agro-meteorological advisories, extreme weather alerts, and mandi market prices available across districts in All India.
Reimbursement up to ₹5 Lakh for foreign patent, ₹1 Lakh for domestic patent, and ₹25,000 for trademark disbursed directly via DBT into bank accounts.
Grant up to ₹40 Lakh (75%) for professional design projects and up to ₹2.5 Lakh for student design projects available across districts in All India.
Reimbursement subsidy up to ₹5 Lakh (60% to 80%) for adopting cloud ERP, accounting, and CRM software disbursed directly via DBT into bank accounts.
Financial grant up to ₹15 Lakh per approved idea for developing commercial prototypes through Host Institutes available across districts in All India.
Grants up to ₹15 Lakh for proof-of-concept ideas, ₹1 Crore for seed commercialization, and ₹40 Lakh for product design projects.
MeitY national training initiative upskilling engineering college faculty in advanced VLSI design, RISC-V processor architecture, and semiconductor verification.
MeitY semiconductor workforce initiative training 85,000 engineering students in VLSI design, semiconductor fabrication, and System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures.
MeitY semiconductor program fully funding the multi-million rupee fabrication (tape-out) of student- and faculty-designed silicon chips at commercial semiconductor foundries.
National cybersecurity service operated by CERT-In providing completely free malware scanning, botnet detection, and remediation security tools for Indian citizens.
Flagship capital subsidy scheme offering 25% financial incentive on capital expenditure for manufacturing electronic components, semiconductors, and PCBs in India.
MeitY fund-of-funds managed by CANBANK Venture Capital Fund (CVCF) investing into daughter venture funds to inject early-stage risk capital into ESDM and IT hardware.
MeitY additive manufacturing initiative subsidizing up to ₹12,000 for certifications in CAD modeling, generative design, and industrial 3D printing technologies.
MeitY immersive media upskilling scheme offering up to ₹12,000 fee reimbursement for learning Unity, Unreal Engine, 3D spatial computing, and metaverse development.
Government upskilling incentive providing up to ₹12,000 fee reimbursement for passing national industry certifications in Big Data, Hadoop, Spark, and data engineering.
Government-subsidized blockchain learning track providing up to ₹12,000 fee reimbursement for certified skills in smart contracts, distributed ledgers, and Ethereum/Hyperledger.
MeitY skill program subsidizing up to ₹12,000 for industry certifications in cloud architecture, DevOps, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud systems.
National cybersecurity workforce initiative providing up to ₹12,000 cash-back reimbursement for clearing certifications in ethical hacking, network defense, and SOC analysis.
MeitY and NASSCOM national upskilling program providing up to 50% government fee reimbursement (up to ₹12,000) for citizens completing accredited certifications in Artificial Intelligence.
MeitY workforce training program offering 50% course fee subsidy (up to ₹12,000) for learners mastering connected hardware, embedded sensors, and industrial IoT protocols.
MeitY skills incentive reimbursing up to ₹12,000 for training and certification in software bots, workflow automation, UiPath, and Automation Anywhere.
MeitY frontier technology skill track providing up to ₹12,000 fee reimbursement for deep-skilling in Web3 protocols, decentralized apps (dApps), and tokenomics.
A comprehensive ₹490 Crore MeitY umbrella scheme discovering, nurturing, and funding technology startups in tier-2 and tier-3 cities across India.
MeitY national program training engineering and science college professors in advanced cyber forensics, malware reverse engineering, and cloud security pedagogy.
MeitY national human resource initiative offering fellowships to M.Tech and Ph.D. students specializing in Information and Cyber Security across 52 premier technical institutions.
Capital subsidy program providing 20% to 25% reimbursement on capital investments for electronics manufacturing units in Special Economic Zones and domestic areas.
MeitY Bhashini mission initiative providing monthly stipends and per-sample remuneration to linguistic scholars and native speakers for recording dialectal speech data.
MeitY research funding providing up to ₹50 Lakh for academic research groups developing large language models (LLMs) and machine translation for low-resource Indian languages.
MeitY additive manufacturing scheme supporting young innovators with monthly stipends and lab access to develop indigenous 3D printing equipment and materials.
MeitY policy research fellowship supporting scholars studying AI bias mitigation, explainable algorithms, data privacy, and ethical guardrails for governance algorithms.
Production-linked financial incentive offering 1% to 4% cash payout on incremental net sales for manufacturing laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs, and servers in India.
Historic PLI scheme providing 4% to 6% cash incentives on incremental sales for manufacturing mobile smartphones and electronic sub-assemblies in India.
Joint initiative by MeitY and Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing Indian researchers free cloud access to real quantum hardware via Amazon Braket.
Structured 6-month growth acceleration program under SAMRIDH providing domestic and international investor pitch access, customer discovery, and export mentoring.
MeitY's flagship Startup Accelerators of MeitY for Product Innovation, Development & Growth (SAMRIDH) providing matching government equity up to ₹40 Lakh.
Flagship Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) startup hunt across 12 tier-2/3 regional incubation hubs to discover transformative software products.
STPI institutional partnership offering incubated startups over ₹10 Lakh worth of free cloud compute credits, developer tools, and specialized IoT/AI lab access.
STPI milestone-linked seed funding awarding up to ₹25 Lakh to incubated software product startups that demonstrate market traction and customer adoption.
Joint public-private accelerator cohorts run by MeitY Startup Hub with global tech corporations (Google, Meta, AWS, Qualcomm) to scale Indian deeptech startups.
National open challenge platform by MeitY organizing thematic problem-solving hackathons with state departments and corporate partners for tech solutions.
Ministry of Electronics & IT Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE 2.0) monthly stipend supporting aspiring tech innovators to validate venture ideas.
MeitY TIDE 2.0 milestone-based grant awarding up to ₹7 Lakh to tech innovators and pre-incubation teams to develop functional minimum viable products (MVPs).
MeitY institutional capacity grant providing up to ₹3.5 Crore to universities and engineering colleges to establish specialized ICT incubation and prototyping centers.
MeitY scale-up funding scheme providing soft loans and equity investments up to ₹40 Lakh to validated tech startups with ready products for commercial market launch.
MeitY post-doctoral research fellowship providing independent support to young doctorate holders to undertake advanced research in cutting-edge semiconductor and ICT areas.
MeitY prestigious fellowship recognizing and retaining outstanding young faculty in electronics and IT departments across Indian universities and NITs.
MeitY flagship doctoral fellowship offering enhanced monthly stipends and institutional support to Ph.D. scholars in ESDM and IT/ITES at premier Indian universities.
MeitY financial incentive scheme for industry professionals and faculty members pursuing part-time Ph.D. in electronics and IT while continuing regular employment.
Autonomous phygital platform empowering Indian youth with experiential learning, volunteer opportunities, and skill development.
Transformative national science mission under the Ministry of Earth Sciences approved by the Union Cabinet in September 2024 to dramatically enhance weather surveillance, radar networks, high-resolution atmospheric modelling, and extreme weather forecasting.
UGC-scale fellowships of ₹37,000/month (JRF) and ₹42,000/month (SRF) for doctoral researchers developing advanced anti-doping analytical methods.
Free pathology lab tests, X-rays, ECGs, and tele-radiology / CT-scans across public healthcare facilities supporting beneficiaries across All India.
Monthly subsistence fellowship of up to ₹30,000 for 12-18 months for budding entrepreneurs pursuing innovative tech ideas.
Early-stage equity and soft loan funding up to ₹1 Crore for technology startups incubated in DST-recognized TBIs available across districts in All India.
Prototype grant of up to ₹10 Lakh for individual innovators to convert technology ideas into proof-of-concept hardware available across districts in All India.
Free nationwide employment matching portal connecting job seekers directly with verified employers verified from official government notifications.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting scheme providing up to ₹10 lakh capital grant-in-aid and national awards recognizing outstanding grassroots community radio stations across India.
Ministry of Cooperation initiative creating a comprehensive centralized digital database of over 8 Lakh cooperative societies across India.
Strategic national mission providing exploration subsidies, risk-capital grants up to 50%, and viability gap funding for 24 critical mineral blocks in India.
Fellowship of ₹25,000 per month for Senior Fellows and ₹20,000 per month for Junior Fellows for 2 years for cultural research.
Nationwide water data modernization scheme establishing real-time hydro-meteorological observation stations, digital water databases (India-WRIS), and river basin flood forecasting systems.
Statutory trust funding regional and detailed mineral exploration, geophysical surveys, and deep-seated critical mineral prospecting to make India self-reliant in strategic minerals.
₹3,660 Crore pan-India mission establishing 25 Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) at top academic institutions in AI, IoT, robotics, and cybersecurity.
Comprehensive Human Resource and Novel Acceleration of Knowledge in Youth (CHANAKYA) doctoral fellowship in Cyber-Physical Systems with enhanced stipends.
NM-ICPS undergraduate student research fellowship offering monthly stipends to encourage engineering bachelor's students to publish papers in AI and Robotics.
NM-ICPS technology commercialization grant providing up to ₹50 Lakh through Technology Innovation Hubs to deeptech startups building CPS products.
NM-ICPS early-stage innovation grant awarding up to ₹10 Lakh to engineering students and grassroots inventors to convert CPS concepts into functional hardware models.
Flagship ₹3,660 Crore DST mission funding 25 Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) at premier IITs/IISc offering research fellowships to doctoral scholars in AI and Robotics.
Autonomous mission under the Ministry of Culture dedicated to unearthing, preserving, cataloguing, and digitizing India’s estimated 10 million rare ancient manuscripts preserved across temples, mutts, and private collections.
National mission to seed, nurture, and scale scientific and industrial R&D in quantum computing, communications, sensing, and materials.
NQM thematic hub supporting satellite-based secure quantum communications, terrestrial Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) over 2,000 km, and quantum memory networks.
Flagship ₹6,003 Crore National Quantum Mission research hub dedicated to developing intermediate-scale quantum computers (50-1000 physical qubits).
NQM thematic hub supporting synthesis and fabrication of topological insulators, 2D materials, quantum dots, and superconducting thin films.
NQM thematic research hub funding the development of ultra-sensitive atomic clocks, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center magnetometers, and quantum gravimeters.
Joint DST and MeitY initiative deploying over 28 indigenous supercomputers across India with combined compute exceeding 24 Petaflops.
Four-year strategic mission under the Ministry of Textiles focusing on research, innovation, market development, and education across 12 sectors of technical textiles to position India as a global manufacturing hub.
Digital public infrastructure initiative unifying 4,400+ Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) onto citizen-centric platforms for online property tax, building permissions, trade licenses, and grievance redressal.
Flagship software startup incubation initiative under MeitY executed by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) to build a robust tech startup ecosystem across 12 Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities in India.
Production linked incentive scheme offering 4% to 7% financial incentives on incremental sales of domestically manufactured 5G, 4G, and optical telecom equipment, with special incentives for design-led manufacturing.
Centrally sponsored model school upgradation scheme providing modern pedagogy, smart classrooms, and labs supporting beneficiaries across All India.
Monthly cashback up to ₹100 for street vendors accepting customer payments through UPI QR codes implemented across all states and union territories.
Direct monthly cashback incentive of up to ₹100 per month (₹1,200 annually) for street vendors accepting customer payments digitally via UPI QR codes.
Direct monthly cashback of ₹1 per digital transaction up to 100 transactions per month (₹100/month) credited directly to traditional artisans accepting UPI.
Free 20-hour certified digital literacy training for one digitally illiterate member per rural household supporting beneficiaries across All India.
Capital grants up to ₹1 Crore for setting up IT-enabled Common Service Centres (CSCs) and vocational skill development hubs in minority-dense areas.
Umbrella scientific research scheme with Rs. 4,797 crore outlay integrating atmosphere, ocean, polar, and seismological research to enhance weather forecasting and disaster early warning systems.
National polar programme managing scientific expeditions and research stations in Antarctica, the Arctic, Southern Ocean, and the Himalayas.
High-impact incentive scheme under the Ministry of Civil Aviation providing financial incentives of 20% of value addition to manufacture indigenous drones, drone software, and critical hardware components in India.
Ministry of Earth Sciences umbrella scheme supporting university research projects, international travel grants, and public earth science outreach.
Ministry of Coal S&T programme financing innovative research in clean coal technologies, coal gasification, safety, and carbon capture.
Matching funding of up to ₹40 Lakh and 6-month mentorship for revenue-generating early-stage software startups available across districts in All India.
The principal competitive research funding mechanism of the Science and Engineering Research Board supporting individual and collaborative investigator-centric projects.
SERB fixed-grant research scheme supporting mathematicians, statisticians, and theoretical computer scientists with fixed honorarium and research grants.
Premier national post-doctoral fellowship offering young researchers independent funding to pursue advanced research in premier Indian academic labs.
SERB women empowerment research fellowship recognizing outstanding active women researchers with monthly honors and independent research funding.
SERB targeted research grant empowering women scientists in Indian academic institutions to pursue leading-edge scientific exploration.
Flagship scientific repatriation scheme encouraging brilliant Indian scientists and engineers working abroad to return to India and take up independent scientific positions.
SERB international mobility scheme providing overseas research exposure to Indian researchers and faculty in world-class foreign laboratories.
SERB recognition award honoring principal investigators who completed outstanding SERB-funded projects with extended un-tied research grants.
SERB high-risk, high-reward funding scheme supporting breakthrough, disruptive scientific ideas capable of transforming technology frontiers.
High-risk, high-reward research funding scheme under Science and Engineering Research Board supporting breakthrough transformative scientific discoveries.
SERB capacity-building research grant fostering robust research ecosystems specifically in state public universities and autonomous colleges.
Fellowship of ₹50,000/month plus ₹5 Lakh kickstart grant for young professionals solving maternal, child & rural health challenges.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Gurugram driving enterprise blockchain adoption, verifiable credentials, and decentralized governance applications.
STPI ESDM incubation center in Odisha supporting electronic hardware and IoT startups with advanced testing labs and prototype validation grants.
STPI and IESA electronics incubator at University of Delhi providing indigenous electronic product design, surface-mount assembly (SMT), and seed funding.
STPI Centre of Excellence at Dr. PDKV Agricultural University Akola specializing in DGCA drone flight training, multispectral crop mapping, and Agri-robotics.
Premier STPI Centre of Excellence in Chennai providing an open banking API sandbox, regulatory testbed, and up to ₹25 Lakh seed funding for FinTech startups.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru offering complete end-to-end hardware prototyping and RF/EMC pre-compliance testing labs for IoT startups.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Visakhapatnam driving smart factory automation, industrial robotics, predictive maintenance, and digital twin solutions.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Pune providing automotive hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators, EV battery testing labs, and seed funding for automotive tech startups.
STPI Centre of Excellence at SGPGIMS Lucknow providing clinical trial access, doctor co-development, and prototyping grants for indigenous medical hardware.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Mohali supporting AI, big data, and computer vision startups with high-performance computing, datasets, and seed funding.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Shillong empowering digital animators and game developers with high-end rendering farms, motion capture studios, and seed grants.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Tripura providing supercomputing GPU clusters, prototype funding up to ₹5 Lakh, and domain mentorship in predictive analytics and NLP.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Arunachal Pradesh developing gaming technologies, game engines, mobile apps, and interactive digital entertainment products.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Nagaland nurturing indigenous digital graphic designers, UI/UX innovators, and digital art studios with high-performance workstations.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Sikkim supporting digital healthcare innovations, portable medical devices, and tele-consultation apps for hilly and remote terrains.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Manipur supporting hardware startups with computerized numerical control (CNC) mills, industrial 3D printers, and embedded PLC labs.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Guwahati providing incubation, prototype grants up to ₹5 Lakh, and smart sensor testing labs for Agri-IoT startups in Northeast India.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Mizoram fostering indigenous electronic chip layout, FPGA verification, and micro-controller embedded hardware development.
STPI Centre of Excellence in Bihar empowering AgriTech startups to build drone crop spraying, AI soil diagnostics, and cold chain telemetry solutions.
STPI Centre of Excellence at IIT Bhubaneswar dedicated to research, prototyping, and venture creation in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality.
Free university-level online courses, video lectures, and academic credit transfer for college students supporting citizen beneficiaries nationwide.
Modern upgraded Anganwadi centres with smart biometric growth devices, LED screens, and clean tap water supporting citizen beneficiaries nationwide.
Citizen security portal to block lost/stolen mobile phones (CEIR), check mobile numbers registered in one's name (TAFCOP), and report suspect fraud (Chakshu).
Financial support for technology innovation centers, advanced testing infrastructure, and design-led manufacturing in capital goods.
MoE initiative facilitating academic research partnerships between top-ranked Indian higher education institutions and leading global universities.
Central grant-in-aid scheme funding research in green steelmaking, carbon capture, alternative ironmaking, and beneficiation of low-grade iron ore.
Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals scheme providing up to ₹6 Crore grant to establish cutting-edge polymer R&D centres in premier institutions.
Central capital grants up to ₹5 Crore per federation to procure high-speed motion capture, force plates, metabolic carts, and cryotherapy chambers.
Ministry of Mines research grant scheme funding academic institutions and CSIR labs in mineral exploration, beneficiation, and strategic minerals recovery.
Ministry of Earth Sciences programme strengthening seismic monitoring networks, earthquake microzonation, and fault observatories across India.
International collaborative research fellowships and mobility grants for Indian scholars and faculty in Canada available across districts in All India.
Real-time city brain monitoring CCTV safety, traffic, solid waste trucks, air quality, and emergency dispatch available across districts in All India.
Autonomous central society under MeitY promoting 100% export-oriented software development and IT enabled services through plug-and-play incubation, high-speed data communications, and tax duty exemptions.
Research grant up to ₹15 Lakh for sports scientists, biomechanists, and nutritionists conducting empirical performance research on Olympic athletes.
Ministry of Steel industry-academia research mission funding advanced R&D for energy-efficient steel making and low-carbon metallurgical technologies.
Prestigious fellowship by Department of Science and Technology recognizing outstanding young scientists with proven track record in biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.
Department of Science and Technology hands-on capacity building program training researchers on advanced analytical instruments.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence fellowship of ₹30,000/month and prototype grants up to ₹7 Lakh for emerging tech startups available across districts in All India.
TDB grant support for high-impact national missions, defense-civilian dual-use technologies, and medical device manufacturing where market risk is extraordinarily high.
DRDO grant scheme providing up to ₹50 Crore to Indian MSMEs and startups for indigenous development of defence and dual-use technologies.
USOF/Digital Bharat Nidhi fund providing up to ₹10 Crore grants to domestic startups and academia for indigenous 5G/6G and telecom tech research.
Direct innovation grants up to ₹10 Crore funded by the Universal Service Obligation Fund for indigenous 5G/6G and rural telecom technologies.
All-in-one mobile governance platform aggregating over 2,000 citizen services from central ministries, state governments, and local bodies in 13 Indian languages.
Grant assistance up to ₹50,000 for product cataloging, professional photography, digital branding, and direct listing on Amazon, Flipkart, and GeM.
Flagship fellowship by Department of Science and Technology for outstanding Indian diaspora scientists to collaborate with Indian academic and research institutions.
Mentorship, ₹1,000/month scholarship, and STEM career guidance for Class 9-12 girl students from rural/semi-urban areas.
Adjunct faculty scheme enabling top overseas scientists and NRIs/OCIs to conduct collaborative cutting-edge R&D in Indian public academic institutions.
Doctoral fellowship of ₹38,750 to ₹43,750 per month plus ₹1.2 Lakh annual contingency grant for full-time PhD in ESDM and IT.
Fellowship of ₹38,750/month for first 2 years, ₹43,750/month thereafter, plus ₹1.2 Lakh/year contingency for PhD in ESDM and IT.
100% central grant support to State Waqf Boards for GIS mapping, geo-tagging, satellite boundary verification, and digital indexing of Waqf properties.
Research grant of ₹55,000/month plus ₹3 Lakh/year contingency for women PhD holders returning to mainstream science available across districts in All India.
DST umbrella initiative providing fellowships, research grants, and career re-entry opportunities for women scientists and technologists.
Single digital portal for tracking rural development works, decentralized Gram Panchayat planning (GPDP), and direct electronic vendor payments via e-GramSwaraj-PFMS integration.
Real-time online tracking of Panchayat planning, accounting, expenditure, and geo-tagged asset verification available across districts in All India.