Gujarat SSIP 2.0 (Student Startup and Innovation Policy)

Gujarat's student-focused startup policy with a ₹500 crore corpus, providing seed support of ₹2.5-10 lakhs per student team. SSIP 2.0 is designed as a five-year policy (January 2022 to March 2027) with explicit system-building targets alongside direct funding: sensitizing five million students, supporting 10,000 proof-of-concept projects, assisting with 5,000 IP filings, and building innovation capacity at 500 educational institutions statewide. This infrastructure-building mandate is why applications typically route through a college or university's own SSIP cell rather than a single state-level portal, since the policy invests as much in institutional capacity as in individual student grants.