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Over two lakh entities have been recognised as startups by the government so far, the Commerce and Industry Ministry said on Wednesday (December 10, 2025). Under the Startup India initiative, the recognised units are eligible to avail incentives such as income tax.
“As on date, a total of 2,01,335 startups has been recognised by DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade), and these start-ups have created 21 lakh plus jobs across the country,” it said.
Commerce and Industry Ministry also said that actual investment of over ₹1.88 lakh crore have been realised till June 2025 across 14 sectors under the production linked incentive scheme.
It has resulted in incremental production/sales of over ₹17 lakh crore and employment generation of over 12.3 lakh (direct and indirect), the Ministry said.
Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes have also witnessed exports exceeding ₹7.5 lakh crore with significant contributions from sectors such as electronics, pharmaceuticals, telecom and networking products and food processing.
On the progress of Open Network for Digital Commerce, it said ONDC has processed over 326 million orders as of October 2025. Further, in October, 18.2 million orders were processed and average daily transactions has reached about 5,90,000.
On ease of doing business, the Ministry said more than 47,000 compliances have been reduced as of (till November 2025).
“Of these, 16,108 compliances have been simplified, 22,287 have been digitized, 4,458 have been decriminalised, and 4,270 redundant compliances have been removed,” the Ministry added.
Furthering these efforts, it said, the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025, comprising 355 provisions, of which 288 are proposed for decriminalisation and 67 for amendment to enhance Ease of Living, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 18 August 2025.
It also said that over the last 11 financial years (2014-25), India attracted $748.38 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), an increase of 143% compared to the $308.38 billion received in the previous 11 years (2003-14).
Published – December 10, 2025 04:02 pm IST
