Rural startups seek improved supply chain, better infra, easier access to funds

Rural startups are making a strong pitch for new programmes to foster research and innovation, as the grassroots-level entrepreneurs seek support for streamlined supply chains, subsidies, improved infrastructure, and easy access to finance.

With the Budget and the Lok Sabha elections drawing closer, startups working in various sectors, especially in smaller towns and villages, said they expect the government to look at various teething issues, even as their “overall performance has improved owing to various policy changes in the past couple of years”.