Startup Grants & Funding for Travel & Tourism Startups

PIPDIC, Puducherry offers a loan scheme for qualified professionals and industrial units to purchase new four-wheel vehicles for their own use, with attractive interest concessions.

A refinance scheme by PIPDIC, Puducherry, providing loans to existing Small Scale Industrial (SSI) units to cover expenses for acquiring ISO 9000 certification.

This scheme under DAY-NULM empowers urban poor women in Uttarakhand through Self-Help Groups by providing financial incentives, bank loans, and subsidies for income-generating activities.

A loan scheme by PIPDIC, Puducherry, providing financial assistance to existing units for purchasing land, building, and machinery with a minimum loan of ₹5 lakh.

This scheme by PIPDIC Puducherry offers financial assistance (loans) to entrepreneurs for setting up, expanding, or modernizing amusement parks, cultural centers, restaurants, and other tourism-related businesses.

A direct finance scheme by NSFDC and GSCDC offering concessional loans at 1-5% interest to unemployed Scheduled Caste residents of Gujarat for self-employment ventures.

Maharashtra government offers enhanced credit guarantee coverage up to 85% for Micro & Small Enterprises, including women and SC/ST entrepreneurs, to facilitate easier access to debt.

A non-dilutive matching grant for Deep Tech startups in Uttar Pradesh, covering up to 40% of R&D expenditure, repayable as a revenue royalty.

The Productivity & Modernisation Enhancement Fund provides working capital to MSMEs in Maharashtra's Thrust Sectors for retooling and modernizing production assembly lines.

Mizoram's AMEn scheme backs micro-unit loans with 100% credit guarantee coverage, opening institutional credit to BANTU businesses.

Annual Maharashtra state hackathon for student innovators, with awards and recognition for the top ten ideas or startups.

Reimbursement of VAT/CST/GST for physically incubated Karnataka startups with turnover up to 50 Lakhs.

Success fee for Bihar-registered startups that secured external funding.

100% reimbursement of patent filing costs for Bihar-registered certified startups.

2% interest subvention on MSME loans for GST-registered businesses

Full reimbursement of patent filing costs for eligible Jharkhand startups with under ₹25 Cr turnover, fostering innovation and intellectual property protection.

50%–80% subsidy on LEAN manufacturing implementation for MSMEs

State-level capital subsidies and interest subvention for tourism and hospitality businesses

Central subsidy and net-metering for rooftop solar on residential and MSME premises

Maharashtra: SGST refund, interest subsidy and stamp duty exemption for new manufacturing MSMEs

Gujarat: 25% capital assistance, 7% interest subsidy, SGST refund for new and expanding MSMEs

Chhattisgarh: India's most generous industrial incentive policy — 40%–70% interest subsidy + 100% stamp duty exemption