Startup India Seed Fund Scheme
Seed Fund money in West Bengal
DPIIT approved Rs 7.0 crore to 2 incubators here, which is 0.9% of the national pot of Rs 755.3 crore. Rs 5.9 crore of it has actually been disbursed.
Approved
Rs 7.0cr
Disbursed
Rs 5.9cr
84% of approved
Incubators
2
Share of the national pot
7
of 755 (0.9%)
crore approved, against the whole scheme
The ledger
Every approved incubator in West Bengal, largest allocation first. Track length is the approved amount against the largest allocation in the state; the filled portion is what has actually been disbursed. An incubator's name is a link only where we hold a published record for it.
The register this money sits in
West Bengal has 17,290 companies on the Startup India register across 50 district labels, of which 7,537 carry DPIIT recognition. That works out at Rs 4,049 of approved Seed Fund money per registered company, though the scheme funds incubators rather than the register at large, and only a small number of companies ever receive any of it.
A note on the source's own arithmetic
The scheme reports Rs 3.4 crore as disbursed to startups in West Bengal, against Rs 5.9 crore disbursed to the incubators. Nationally the first of those figures exceeds the second, because the first and second application blocks overlap in the government's data, so the two are not directly comparable anywhere. We publish them as reported and treat the approved figure as the reliable one.
Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which. How we counted.