On the eve of 74th Indian Independence, India’s largest cloud-based business registration and compliance services platform IndiaFilings.com has taken a pledge to help over 10,000 startups register their business under the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ mission.

From 142 to 77th place on ‘Ease of Doing Business’ rankings in merely four years, India has made tremendous progress to make it simpler for Entrepreneurs to register a company.

The government has streamlined various services and simplified the forms to make same-day incorporation of the company possible in India. India has made tremendous progress in improving the ease of doing business in India through various measures to simplify the company registration process.

Further, with the introduction of SPICE forms, the entire process of obtaining various registrations like GST, PF, professional tax, and opening of bank account has also been integrated. Thus, the stage is now set for Indian entrepreneurs to easily start a business and build a self-reliant India.

IndiaFilings.com is a platform built in India and owned 100 per cent by Indian entities that help lakhs of entrepreneurs each year with various services like incorporation, tax filing, GST registration, accounting, and payroll processing. Started in 2013, the company currently has over 500 employees across seven offices.

“With this nationwide campaign, we are striving to make the registration process simpler for all startups. The attractiveness of this unique initiative increases as not just registrations; we are offering a bunch of services available at our platform including accounting and loan offerings from banks. I think there is no better time to launch a business, as the country is coming out of lockdown and there is lots of unfulfilled demand everywhere,” said Reeni Samuel, COO at IndiaFilings.

Under the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ mission, IndiaFilings will offer various business startup services at a very nominal cost. Also, those signing up under this initiative will be provided access to other software for accounting and HR at no additional cost for one year.

“With our own version of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ campaign, we are offering all the legal and regulatory help to the young ensuring their business dreams remain compliant and continually growing,” added Reeni Samuel, COO, IndiaFilings.

ANI

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Indian government’s AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge has announced the final winners of the hackathon hosted on August 7. This challenge is meant to boost the adoption and development of Indian applications over foreign ones. A total of 6,940 tech entrepreneurs and startups across the country took part in the challenge.

The mega challenge had entries for nine different categories: Business, eLearning, Entertainment, Games, Health, News, Office and Work from Home, Others, and Social.

The government announced Rs 20 lakh for the first place, Rs 15 lakh for the second place and Rs 10 lakh for the third-placed apps in each category. Winners of other sub-categories won Rs 5 lakh, Rs 3 lakh, and Rs 2 lakh for first, second and third positions, respectively. Winners across categories were announced in a virtual event. They are as follows:

Business:
Zoho Invoice, books & expenses
Mall91
GimBooks- easy invoice manager

eLearning:
Disprz
Kutuki Kids Learning App
Hello English; Learn English

Entertainment:
Caption Plus
Meme Chat
FTC Talent

Social:
Chingari
YourQuote
Koo

Games:
Hitwicket Superstars -3d cricket strategy game
Scarfall – the royale combat
World cricket championship 2- WCC2

News:
Logically: check fake news and verify facts
IsEqualTo: Daily News, Quiz, and GK for students

Office:
Zoho workplace
SureMDM

Health:
StepSetGo
iMumz

Others:
MapMyIndia
AskSarkar
MyITreturn

Special award across categories— Most promising apps.

• Entertainment- Docubay and Boom
• News: Paperboy and LetsUp
• Games: kite fly, donkey master, math games
• Office: Kaagaz Scanner, Iamhere and Spark.Live
• Health: Aurum, SastaSundar
• Elearning: ChalkLit, eMedicoz
• Business: Lynk My Business and Boomer- build a website; website builder
• Social: Mitron and Hidoc Dr- medical learning for doctors
• Others: Life Hacks and xploree AI keyboard

The AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge was launched on July 4, days after the government banned 59 Chinese apps citing threats to data privacy of users, to identify the “best Indian Apps that are already being used by citizens and have the potential to scale and become world-class Apps in their respective categories.”

The apps were ranked on the basis of their performance, useability and features, on category-specific leaderboards, with cash prizes and incentives on offer for the best performing applications.

Jury members who were experts from Industry, Academia and Government evaluated the Apps, shortlisted after the screening, through presentations made over 5 days from July 31 – August 4, 2020.

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