{"id":4908,"date":"2023-01-15T06:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:39:24","slug":"what-is-maarg-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-maarg-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"What is MAARG Platform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is MAARG PLATFORM?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>National Mentorship Platform<\/strong> by Start-up India to help and guide new start-ups to grow and flourish.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a one-stop platform to facilitate mentorship for start-ups across diverse sectors, functions, stages, geographies, and backgrounds.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> Launched by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under <strong>the Ministry of Commerce and Industry<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are the objectives?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To provide <strong>sector-focused guidance<\/strong>, handholding, and support to start-ups throughout their lifecycle.<\/li>\n<li>To establish a formalized and structured platform that facilitates intelligent matchmaking between the mentors and their respective mentees\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To facilitate efficient and expert mentorship for start-ups and build an outcome-oriented mechanism that allows timely tracking of mentor-mentee engagements.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Implementation of MAARG Initiative:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Phase I:<\/strong> Mentor Onboarding\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Successfully launched and executed, 400+ expert mentors are on board across sectors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase II<\/strong>: Startup Onboarding\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>DPIIT launched the onboarding of startups on the MAARG Portal with effect from 14th November 2022\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase III:<\/strong> MAARG Portal Launch and Mentor Matchmaking.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Final launch where the mentors will be matched to the startups DPIIT has initiated the onboarding process of startups under Phase II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Startup India Seed Fund Scheme?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a seed fund scheme under which financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry, and commercialization will be given.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><u>Piyush Goyal to launch MAARG portal for startup mentorship<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAARG Platform aims to facilitate mentorship for start-ups across diverse sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}