<span style="color: #222222;">Minister for Electronics and Information Technology  Ravi Shankar Prasad today launched "Chunauti"- Next Generation Startup Challenge Contest to further boost startups and software products with special focus on Tier-II towns of the  country.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The government has earmarked a budget of over 95  crore rupees over a period of three years for this programme. It aims at identifying around three hundred startups working in identified areas and provide them seed fund of upto 25 lakh rupees and other facilities.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Under this challenge the Ministry of Electronics and IT will invite startups in the  areas of work including Edu Tech, Agri Tech and Fin Tech solutions for masses, Supply Chain and Logistic management, Infrastructure, Medical Healthcare as well as jobs and skilling.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Speaking at the virtual event the Minister urged the young, talented innovators of India to come forward and avail benefits of Chunauti challenge of Government and create new software products and app. He said, this launch is a bold initiative under the clarion call for Aatma Nirbhar Bharat given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In addition to it, Mr Prasad also laid foundation stone of the digital training and skilling center of National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) at Muzaffarpur in Bihar. This center will be developed a cost of over  nine crore rupees. Bihar government  has allocated one acre of land for this institution. This center will be equipped with the state of the art training facility with a digital laboratory.</span><br />''