EIR
Entrepreneur-in-Residence Programme

About NIDHI - EIR Programme

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) Program is one of the programs introduced under the NIDHI Scheme by DST, GoI to inspire the best talents to be entrepreneurs, to minimize the risk involved in pursuing start-ups, and to partially set off their opportunity costs of high paying jobs. The NIDHI-EIR program provides tremendous opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs to expand their networks and get critical feedback on their ventures in order to promote their entrepreneurial career goals and aspirations. The NIDHI-EIR Program would provide subsistence grant to an aspiring or budding entrepreneur of considerable potential for pursuing a promising technology business idea.

Fellowship

Fellowship upto Rs. 30,000/ month for 12 months.

Who Can Apply

Budding Entrepreneurs with Innovative Technology Business Ideas.

NIDHI EIR

Objectives

To encourage graduating student to take to entrepreneurship by providing support as a fellowship.
To provide a prestigious forum for deserving and budding entrepreneurs to pursue their ventures without any additional risks involved in technology based businesses.
To create, nurture and strengthen a pipeline of entrepreneurs for incubators.
To make pursuing entrepreneurship related to a technology business idea more attractive among options available career options.
To enable creation of new start-ups by entrepreneurs and significant progress towards raising funding or investment.