{"id":119500,"date":"2021-08-02T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=119500"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:27:54","slug":"innovations-for-defence-excellence-idex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/innovations-for-defence-excellence-idex\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements:<br>(1) The Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence has approved a central sector scheme Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX).<br>(2) The scheme has been allocated budgetary support of Rs. 498.80 crore for the next 5 years from 2021-22 to 2025-26.<br>Of the above correct statement\/s is\/are:<\/strong><br>(a) Only (1)<br>(b) Only (2)<br>(c) Both (1) &amp; (2)<br>(d) None of the above<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 28 July 2021, the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence has approved a central sector scheme viz. Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX)with budgetary support of Rs. 498.80 crore for the next 5 years from 2021-22 to 2025-26.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The objective of the scheme is to provide financial support to nearly 300 Startups\/ MSMEs\/ individual innovators and about 20 Partner incubators through Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO).<\/li><li>Criteria to avail grants of Support for Prototype and Research Kickstart (SPARK):<\/li><li>To avail the grants under the grant mechanism of iDEX i.e. Support for Prototype and Research Kickstart (SPARK), the eligibility is as follows:<\/li><li>Startups, as defined and recognized by Department of Industrial Policy Promotion (DIPP), now DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India.<\/li><li>Any Indian company incorporated under the Companies Act 1956\/2013, primarily a Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) as defined in the MSME Act, 2006.<\/li><li>Individual innovators are also encouraged to apply (research &amp; academic institutions can use this category to apply).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Criteria for Incubators:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To avail the grants as iDEX Partner Incubators, the eligibility is as follows:<\/li><li>The applicant incubator should be registered in India as a legal entity in public, private or public\u2013private partnership mode, and should have received establishment or grant support from a Ministry\/Department of Government of India in the past.<\/li><li>The incubator must have been in operation for a minimum of 3 years before application for affiliation with DIO, and experience of having supported at least 25 startups.<\/li><li>It should have successfully graduated at least 5 startups in the past 3 years.<\/li><li>The incubators should have experience of partnering with the research and academia.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1739954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1739954<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements:(1) The Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence has approved a central sector scheme Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX).(2) The scheme has been allocated budgetary support of Rs. 498.80 crore for the next 5 years from 2021-22 to 2025-26.Of the above correct statement\/s is\/are:(a) Only (1)(b) Only (2)(c) Both (1) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":119501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-119500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119502,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119500\/revisions\/119502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}