Will push the idea of co-working spaces within govt: Sitharaman

Says will push the idea within govt; also wants to host Saarc start-up meet this year

At least one central minister is taken by the latest fad among start-ups, of promoting co-working spaces.

On Monday, commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she planned to write to MPs in states where there has been a surge of start-ups, urging them to open such co-working spaces. She had, she said, used her own Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme fund to create a co-working space for start-ups in Mangaluru, Karnataka. It houses a 60-seater complex, enabling at least 120 companies in two shifts to operate from.

The minister wants more such complexes to come up in tier-II and