On January 5, 2022, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Education Minister Jitu Vaghani launched “Student Start-up and Innovation Policy (SSIP) 2.0” in the state of Gujarat.

Why was SSIP 2.0 launched?

• SSIP 2.0 was launched with the aim of financially supporting the school students in innovation, at International Conference of Academic Institutions (ICAI-2022). ICAI 2022 is a pre vibrant summit, which was held at Science City on January 5, 2022.
• SSIP 2.0 rules provides support to any person aged up to 35 years, who is a school student; or a vocational, diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate & doctoral student; or an alumna, alumnus or any dropout from institute, university or school.
• Under it, state government plans to establish functional innovation and incubation centres across all the universities in state.

Vision of SSIP 2.0

SSIP 2.0 is being launched with the vision of sustainable development and inclusive growth, for the realisation of Aatmanirbhar Gujarat.

Significance of SSIP 2.0

SSIP 2.0 is significant in light that, there are so many innovations done by school students. But they do not get any platform to showcase them. The new policy will support such innovations financially and help in taking them from “Mind to Market”.