I.T.S Engineering College, Greater Noida

Check which of NFED's three windows actually fits you

NewGen-IEDC and MSME-BI both require an I.T.S Engineering College student on the team, so they are effectively campus-only routes rather than open calls. StartinUP is described in broader terms on the foundation's site, but there is no working application form for it and no separate eligibility page — treat any claim of open eligibility there as unconfirmed until you can reach a real person.

Reach out before you prepare anything

Since the site's own apply buttons are dead links, email the foundation directly at head.nfed@its.edu.in and ask which window (if any) is open to a team without a current I.T.S Engineering College student, what the current intake dates are, and whether a working application form exists.

What reviewers look for on NewGen-IEDC

For the scheme that does have a documented process, the college's Business Incubation team shortlists on innovation, feasibility and commercial or social potential, then holds a final pitch in front of industry mentors before approving a grant. Come with a working prototype plan you can demonstrate within six months, and be ready to show you have not already received substantial outside funding for the same idea from a government or private source, since that disqualifies a proposal under the stated eligibility.

Have your paperwork ready

If you are selected, NewGen-IEDC asks for company registration and, for a company already registered within the past year, valid bills or invoices tied to its formation — keep those documents on hand rather than scrambling for them after a grant is approved.

I.T.S Engineering College, Greater Noida is a private engineering college founded in 2006 under Chairman Dr. R.P. Chadha, part of I.T.S The Education Group. Its entrepreneurship and incubation work runs through a named in-house arm, the Navrachna Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (NFED), based on the same Knowledge Park 3 campus.

Programmes

NFED runs three named schemes. NewGen-IEDC gives prototype-development support to teams that must include at least one current I.T.S Engineering College student: the college's Business Incubation team shortlists proposals on innovation, feasibility and commercial potential, invites a final pitch in front of industry mentors, and approves a grant once the technical review and budget are verified; selected teams also get help registering a company and reimbursement toward incorporation costs. MSME-BI is a campus Business Incubation Centre run under a Ministry of MSME scheme, built around students presenting ideas to the college's own BI Sub-Committee before they go forward to the Ministry for prototype-development funding. StartinUP is the foundation's third named window, positioned on its site as an execution partner for the Government of Uttar Pradesh's state startup policy, offering a monthly sustenance allowance for idea-stage ventures, a prototype development grant, and seed capital and marketing assistance, with extra support for women-led or regionally focused ventures.

The college also runs an Institution's Innovation Council under the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell and AICTE, which organises workshops, hackathons, business-plan competitions and mentoring sessions on an academic calendar; it has been rated at the council's highest star level and acts as a mentor to five other colleges' own innovation councils. This is a campus innovation-culture programme rather than a channel a startup applies to.

Facilities and support

NFED's campus space includes a fabrication lab with CNC laser and plasma cutting and roughly twenty concurrent prototyping workstations, 3D printing on both FDM and resin (stereolithography) machines, high-end simulation and AI workstations offered on a rental basis, a twenty-three-seat co-working area with plug-and-play systems, and fully equipped meeting rooms. Support on top of the space includes mentorship across business domains, patent-filing cost support, and help with company registration and incorporation paperwork for grantees.

NFED's own site reports 45 startups incubated, 33 patents filed and 20 startup mentors to date, though it does not say as of when, so these are self-reported running totals rather than a dated, audited count.

Who can apply

NFED consistently describes itself, across every page of its site, as a resource for "students, faculty & staff" to pursue entrepreneurial achievements, and its two most specific eligibility statements bear that out: the NewGen-IEDC grant requires at least one team member to be a current I.T.S Engineering College student, plus one mentor and one mentee drawn from the college, and MSME-BI is framed entirely around students developing ideas "within the campus." The StartinUP page uses broader language about "emerging founders" and "young entrepreneurs" and cites the state government scheme it says it mirrors, but the foundation's own "Register for Incubation Support" and "Get Started" buttons on that page are not working application links, and no separate eligibility or intake page for an outside founder was found on the site.

How to apply

No working online application form was found for any of NFED's three schemes. NewGen-IEDC asks applicants to download a proposal format from the site and submit before a stated deadline (most recently 10 August); presentation scheduling is emailed out after the deadline closes. For MSME-BI, the route runs through the college's internal BI Sub-Committee. The general contact for all of NFED's programmes is its foundation inbox, head.nfed@its.edu.in.

Who runs it and locations

I.T.S Engineering College is one of several institutions under I.T.S The Education Group, alongside sister colleges for management, pharmacy, dental and physiotherapy education in Greater Noida and Ghaziabad. NFED itself is based on the engineering college's Knowledge Park 3 campus in Greater Noida and does not list any other location.