K.S.RANGASAMY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

सही रास्ता चुनना

• उत्पाद विचार और बिज़नेस प्लान वाले तकनीकी उद्यम: MSME Business Incubator।
• ग्रामीण, आदिवासी, महिलाओं या अन्य वंचित समुदायों द्वारा और उनके लिए नवाचार: ACIC-KSRCTIF।
• अनुदान चाहने वाले विचार वाले छात्र: MSME Idea Hackathon। AICTE Idea Lab पहले विचार को निखारने में मदद कर सकती है।

आवेदन कैसे काम करते हैं

• कॉलेज की वेबसाइट से आवेदन पत्र डाउनलोड करें और भरें।
• किसी पंजीकृत, अ-सूचीबद्ध कंपनी के नाम पर आवेदन करें। यदि कंपनी अभी पंजीकृत नहीं है, तो प्रमोटरों के रूप में आवेदन करें और स्वीकृति के चार महीनों के भीतर उसे पंजीकृत करें।
• पहले बारह महीनों की बिज़नेस प्लान लिखें। इसमें मूल्य प्रस्ताव, उत्पाद और सेवाएँ, बाज़ार और प्रतिस्पर्धा, फंडिंग की ज़रूरत, माइलस्टोन, टीम, जोखिम और पाँच वर्षीय वित्तीय अनुमान शामिल होने चाहिए।
• Apex Committee के सामने अपनी टीम और प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत करने की तैयारी रखें।

चयन कैसे होता है

• आवेदन नवीनता, व्यावसायिक व्यवहार्यता, तकनीकी साध्यता, सामाजिक संवेदनशीलता, स्केलेबिलिटी और बाज़ार में पकड़ बनाने की क्षमता के आधार पर जाँचे जाते हैं।
• बिज़नेस प्लान की जाँच इन्क्यूबेटी के रूप में उसकी संभावना के लिए होती है। समिति प्रस्तुति के बाद ही प्रवेश की पुष्टि करती है।

प्रतिबद्ध होने से पहले

• इन्क्यूबेटी एक वापसी योग्य सिक्योरिटी डिपॉज़िट और वार्षिक पंजीकरण शुल्क देते हैं। वर्चुअल इन्क्यूबेशन में सिक्योरिटी डिपॉज़िट नहीं है।
• डिफ़ॉल्ट इन्क्यूबेशन अवधि बारह महीने है, जिसे अठारह महीने तक बढ़ाया जा सकता है।

KSRCT, the K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, runs two incubation centres that take in early technology ventures: the MSME Business Incubator (MSME-BI) and the ACIC-KSRCT Incubation Foundation. Both sit on the autonomous college campus in Tiruchengode, Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu. The college was established in 1994 and is part of the K.S.R. Educational Institutions.

How the programmes work

Both centres work under one incubation policy, dated May 2025. Admission has three steps: an application form, a business plan covering the first twelve months of incubation, and a presentation before the Apex Committee. The committee confirms admission only after it has screened the business plan and the presentation.

By default an incubation runs for twelve months. The Apex Committee can extend it to eighteen months. After that, an incubatee who wants to stay can take six more months at non-subsidised running costs, with committee approval, and then must leave.

Incubatees pay a refundable security deposit and an annual registration fee. The centre takes a share of the revenue the incubatee earns from its services for three years after graduation. Virtual incubation is offered too, and it does not require the security deposit.

Who can apply

Applications are made in the name of a registered, unlisted company. Founders who have not yet registered can apply in their own names, but must register the company within four months of approval.

The centres are open to anyone with an idea that can make a difference. Students of the college, past and present, get preference in admission. The policy also reserves half of the occupancy for rural and tribal youth and women.

ACIC-KSRCTIF focuses on innovations by and for underserved people, including rural farmers, women, poultry farmers, SC/ST communities, first graduates and tribal communities. Its proposed domains are agriculture, food technology, poultry, textile product development, social forestry, mechanisation and IoT. Community-based social enterprises can be exempted from the security deposit by the Apex Committee.

The two centres

The MSME Business Incubator was set up under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, and its page gives the approval reference HIBITN000909. It provides space, equipment, a lab and auxiliary support for founders turning ideas into knowledge-based MSMEs. The centre has been selected for a government grant to buy plant, machinery and hardware for its incubates.

ACIC-KSRCTIF is a registered section 8 company, set up in 2023. Its own page describes it as a body for grassroots innovation and indigenous knowledge. It aligns its work with the 17 UN sustainable development goals, with a focus on agriculture, food, poultry and IoT.

Facilities

Incubates can rent office space, internet and furniture from the centre on a pay-per-use basis, along with shared infrastructure. Monthly rent is set by the college.

MSME Idea Hackathon

The MSME Idea Hackathon runs in numbered editions, from 1.0 to 5.0 on the college's page. Selected ideas receive grants for implementation. The call for the fourth edition, posted in September 2024, was open to students, faculty, supporting staff, alumni, MSME industries and any individuals aged 18 to 35.

Scale

The college's pages do not agree on the numbers. The ACIC tile counts 17 incubatees. A list of MSME incubates is numbered to 22 startups, and a separate startup details list has 13 entries. The hackathon tiles show 17 selected ideas across the editions. The 3.0 women's edition is shown with 4 ideas on one tile, while its own text describes two funded projects. These counts are unreconciled.

Who runs it

Dr. N. Tiruvenkadam heads the MSME Business Incubator, and Dr. D. Vasudevan is its incubation programme co-ordinator. Dr. B. Mythili Gnananamangai is CEO of ACIC-KSRCTIF.

Location

The campus address is KSR Kalvi Nagar, Tiruchengode, 637215, on the Tiruchengode to Erode state highway.