New Delhi, Jan 15 || As the nation marks the decade of the ‘Startup India’ initiative, the revolution is no longer merely an economic phenomenon; it has become a nation-building instrument, reshaping how the India creates capability, opportunity, and confidence for the next century.
‘Startup India’ was launched on January 16, 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a transformative national programme to nurture innovation, promote entrepreneurship and enable investment-driven growth, with the objective of making India a nation of job creators rather than job seekers.
Today, the transition from a global “back-office” to an “innovation architect” is not just about sovereignty in defence or technology — it is about reconstructing national institutions, decentralising opportunity, and embedding innovation into the everyday functioning of India.
Under the PM Modi government, what began as ease-of-doing-business reforms has evolved into a capability-building architecture for Viksit Bharat 2047.
For example, defence startups are often viewed through the lens of security, but their deeper contribution is to institutional resilience and industrial depth.