• Healthcare
• Education
• Agriculture
• Financial inclusion including digital payments
• Infrastructure and transportation
• Environment and clean tech
• Clean energy solutions
• Other emerging areas (flexibility to support tech startups to address societal challenges in ICTE areas)

The eligibility criteria for the applicants for MeitY EiR program are as follows :

• Any individual/founder of a startup applying for MeitY TIDE 2.0 EiR support has to be an Indian Citizen with a government approved proof of nationality such as a valid passport, voter’s id etc. The applicant should have completed minimum 4 years of formal full time undergraduate/post graduate education towards one or more-degree program. Basic degree or diploma should be in science or engineering.
  
  OR
  
  3 years degree or diploma program and have 2 year full time work experience post degree or diploma. Basic degree or diploma should be in science or engineering. (education degree/works experience having some relevance to the business idea will be preferred)
• The applicant is expected to be committed to exploring a business idea. Typical EIR needing the support is a first generation innovative entrepreneur, who has no prior source of income. MeitY TIDE 2.0 EiR support recipient should not treat this support as a stop gap arrangement to support them in their academic pursuits or transition between jobs.
• The applicant seeking the support should demonstrate his/her ability to build a scalable technology business startup.
• MeitY TIDE 2.0 EiR support recipient are expected to pursue their entrepreneurial aspirations full time. MeitY EiR cannot be concurrent with any other remuneration or fellowship.
• The applicant cannot be the promoter or significant (>10%) share holder/ beneficiary of another company at the time of applying for and receiving the grant approval.
• The MeitY TIDE 2.0 EiR support should be registered for the pre-incubation or incubation program at the SINE for the entire duration of support.
• Entrepreneurs pursuing business ideas with no or marginal technology innovation or those with very short journey (i.e less than 6 months) to commercialization are discouraged to apply.
• Applicant seeking EiR support should have a formal business plan for the idea they intend to pursue and a business presentation including the investment proposal.

Important points for the applicants:

• The applicant and team members are not eligible to avail funding support in parallel from both i.e MeitY EiR and MeitY Grant schemes.
• The applicant and team members should not avail fellowship from other government agencies for the same product.
• Any Innovator / Startup founders can be supported only once under MeitY EiR irrespective of, same idea or different idea.
• The applicant should share all the team member details, along with their Aadhar card number at the time of application.
• No pending litigations against individual/innovator(s)/company/founder(s)/co-founder(s).
• All statutory/regulatory permissions and approvals/permits to operate/run or conduct business operations.
• Innovators/founders/co-founders/startups agree to strictly abide by MSH’s policy and guidelines at any point in time.

The grant support cannot, however, be used for supporting:

• Innovators/Startups who do not/will not own the Project know how/IP
• Funding research / student internship in Academic institution or R & D organization
• Innovators /Team/ Start up who is already supported once under MeitY EiR