Start-up Inc urges policy push, focus on smaller towns for sector's growth

Founders and investors laud move to celebrate National Start-up Day on January 16 - but say that more needs to be done to help sector

While welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on Saturday to celebrate January 16 as National Start-up Day, six years after the Start-up India Action Plan was launched by the government, stakeholders in the ecosystem say that more needs to be done at the policy level to unleash the next phase of growth in the sector.

“The Start-up India programme’s launch in 2016 was a turning point – that is when the promoter came to be known as the founder in the country and the word ‘entrepreneur’ entered the common lexicon. But now we need a Start-up India 2.0 now for