Itanagar, Aug. 19 -- Giving a major push to the state's entrepreneurial ecosystem, Chief Minister Pema Khandu today announced the expansion of the Arunachal Pradesh Innovation and Investment Park (APIIP) to accommodate more startups and the enhancement of the State's Entrepreneurship Development Program (APEDP) ambit.

Established in August 2020 under the Department of Planning, Investment & Finance, APIIP has been the state's marquee incubator for the Arunachal Pradesh Start-Up Policy. It basically organizes annual start-up challenges to identify promising entrepreneurs and provides seed money along with nine-month incubation and pre-incubation programmes to support selected entrepreneurs to attain commercial success.

"In just four years,...