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NIDHI-PRAYAS (Promoting and Accelerating Young and Aspiring Innovators and Startups)

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A DST prototyping grant in New Delhi, India for young innovators and start-ups, delivered through PRAYAS centres

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About NIDHI-PRAYAS (Promoting and Accelerating Young and Aspiring Innovators and Startups)

NIDHI-PRAYAS (Promoting and Accelerating Young and Aspiring Innovators and Startups) funds prototypes as a DST grant scheme based in New Delhi, India. It funds individual innovators and young start-ups to build prototypes, and innovators apply to a PRAYAS centre. A second phase, NIDHI PRAYAS 2.0, has its own centre applications.

What NIDHI-PRAYAS (Promoting and Accelerating Young and Aspiring Innovators and Startups) offers

  • Prototyping grant: grant support for individual innovators and young start-ups to develop prototypes.
  • PRAYAS and Advance PRAYAS centres: standard centres, and advanced centres for deep-tech or advanced prototypes.
  • PRAYAS 2.0 centre route: incubators were invited to apply to become 2.0 centres.

Clients

Individual innovators and young start-ups, applying to a PRAYAS centre. Deep-tech and advanced prototype teams go through an Advance PRAYAS centre.

Key facts

  • Based in: New Delhi, India
  • Incubator call window: 19 May to 30 June 2026

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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