CSMSS Chh Shahu College of Engineering Aurangabad

First, decide which door you need

CSMSS is a college, not an incubator, so what you do next depends on who you are.

• An outside innovator with an early idea: your route is the MSME Innovative Scheme, not the college website. Apply on the Ministry of MSME portal and name CSMSS Chh Shahu College of Engineering Aurangabad as your Host Institute.
• A student or faculty member of the college: work through the Institution Innovation Council, the Entrepreneurship Development Cell or, in first year, Engineering Exploration.

Applying through the MSME Host Institute route

• The scheme is run by the Ministry of MSME, and you apply on its portal, choosing an approved Host Institute to work with.
• CSMSS appears at serial number 319 on the ministry's published list of Host Institutes.
• Before you rely on it, check the ministry portal to confirm the listing is still live. The published list carries no date or status, so it does not tell you on its own whether the recognition is current.
• Being on the list means the college can be named as a host; it does not tell you how many ideas, if any, it has taken on. Ask the college directly what support it can give before you commit.

If you are a student here

• The Entrepreneurship Development Cell runs awareness camps and short courses on the basics of starting up, from legal steps and funding to product and marketing.
• The Institution Innovation Council has faculty leads for startup, innovation and intellectual-property activity; they are the people to approach with an idea.
• First-year students can use the Engineering Exploration Innovation Lab to build and test projects.

Reach out first

There is no online startup application form on the college site. For anything beyond the MSME portal route, contact the college office at principal@csmssengg.org or on (0240) 2646363 and ask for the IIC or EDC.

CSMSS Chh. Shahu College of Engineering is a private engineering college in Kanchanwadi, on Paithan Road in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra. It is approved by AICTE, runs under the Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra, and is affiliated to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere. It is run by CSMSS, the parent trust, which also runs Ayurved, dental, polytechnic and agriculture colleges in the city.

It is a college, not an incubator, and it runs no startup programme that outside founders apply to. What it does hold is one door that matters to founders, plus a set of innovation and entrepreneurship activities for its own students.

The MSME Host Institute route

The college is listed as a Host Institute under the incubation part of the MSME Innovative Scheme, run by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. It appears at serial number 319 on the ministry's published list of Host Institutes, as "CSMSS Chh Shahu College of Engineering Aurangabad" in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, checked on the ministry's own portal in September 2026.

That listing is what a founder can use. Under this scheme an innovator with an early idea applies on the ministry's portal and names an approved Host Institute to work with; CSMSS is one of the institutes you can name. This is a national route open to any adult Indian applicant, not a campus-only offer, and the application happens on the ministry portal rather than on the college website.

Two caveats are worth stating plainly. The ministry's list gives no approval date, no period and no status column, so whether the recognition is still current cannot be told from the list itself. And being listed is a capacity registration, not proof that the college has ever hosted an approved idea. So treat it as a real, verifiable door, and confirm it is live on the portal before you rely on it.

Innovation and entrepreneurship on campus

For its own students, the college runs several bodies. Its Institution Innovation Council was set up under the norms of the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, with a stated mission to help innovative minds turn ideas into startups and to encourage campus startups. The council has named faculty leads for startup activity, innovation, internships and intellectual property. It holds Ministry of Education IIC star-rating certificates for 2021-22 and 2022-23 and publishes an activity calendar.

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell has run since July 2015. It offers Industry Ready Programs of fifteen days to three months, entrepreneurship awareness camps and short training that walk aspiring founders through legal aspects, funding sources, product development and marketing, and project-based training on live industry problems. The cell also set up an eYantra robotics laboratory as a nodal centre under IIT Bombay's eYantra team, training students and teachers in the Marathwada region. In 2015-16 the EDC received a grant to run Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps from the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, routed through the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India in Ahmedabad, under the DST-NIMAT project of that year.

First-year students take part in Engineering Exploration, a free project-based learning programme with its own Innovation Lab where students build working projects, from wireless stethoscopes and water purifiers to home-automation and IoT agriculture builds. The college reports more than seventy such student projects and a patent filed in 2023-24.

Who can apply

There are two different audiences here. The IIC, the EDC and Engineering Exploration are for the college's own students and faculty; they are not an intake outside founders apply to. The MSME Host Institute route is the one open to outside applicants, and it runs through the ministry's portal, not the college.

Also on campus

The college lists several Centres of Excellence, including TIFAN Automotive Technologies, an electric-vehicle centre, an SAP centre, a software development training centre, a materials-testing consultancy and a Honeywell Center of Excellence for Youth Empowerment. An Industry Cell, formed with GIZ of Germany and supported by GIZ, MASSIA and TATA Technologies, places students on live industrial projects. These are academic, training and industry-interaction centres rather than startup programmes.

Note that references on the site to ATAL are to AICTE's ATAL Academy faculty development programmes, and the ARIIA report on the site is the Atal Ranking of Institutions. Neither is an Atal Incubation Centre; the college does not hold one.

Location and contact

The college is at Kanchanwadi, Paithan Road, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra. Its published number is (0240) 2646363, and the office email is principal@csmssengg.org, which is also the contact listed against its MSME Host Institute entry.