Startups-MSMEs Facilitation Cell
Indigenous industry representatives, including Startups/MSMEs, have requested for a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) at DoT Hq. to address their issues in a timely and effective manner.
Facilitation Cells have been conceived under the Telecom Startups Mission for ease of doing business and promotion of R&D in timely manner.
The Facilitation Cell shall handhold Startups and MSMEs on the following broad activities –
- Taking up the raised issues with concerned units of DoT and other ministries
- Increasing awareness and extending support –
- domestic and abroad market
- import substitution
- export promotion
- meet statutory requirements
- capacity building and training
- Provide inputs to make informed policy/regulatory decisions (Technology trials/PoC, spectrum, IPRs, design-led manufacturing, integrated R&D Telecom efforts, market access, testing & certification, standards, capacity building, etc.)
- Development and maintenance of Bharat Digicom Innovation Network – the one-stop platform for bringing all the DCT stakeholders together
- Identifying and work on intra-ministerial and inter-ministerial gaps to better facilitate Startup & MSME Community
- Facilitation also through DoT field units, including coordination with respective state government agencies, industry, and academia
- Any other item as may be necessary to take forward the Telecom Startups-MSMEs Mission’s objectives