{"id":1034779,"date":"2026-09-12T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034779"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:07:20","slug":"indias-next-hardware-heroes-may-come-from-dehradun-mandi-not-just-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/indias-next-hardware-heroes-may-come-from-dehradun-mandi-not-just-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s next hardware heroes may come from Dehradun &amp; Mandi \u2014 Not just Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s next generation of technology entrepreneurs may not come from Bengaluru\u2019s startup ecosystem. They could emerge from engineering colleges and incubators in Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mandi, Dehradun, Jammu or other smaller cities, armed with a prototype, a patent and now, potentially, government-backed capital. <\/p>\n<p>Announced at the STPI Electropreneur Summit in Delhi, the Electropreneur 2.0 programme comes with a Rs 47 crore outlay and a bold target-nurture 500 startups in Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM), with a deliberate focus on talent outside metros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s next generation of technology entrepreneurs may not come from Bengaluru\u2019s startup ecosystem. They could emerge from engineering colleges and incubators in Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mandi, Dehradun, Jammu or other smaller cities, armed with a prototype, a patent and now, potentially, government-backed capital. Announced at the STPI Electropreneur Summit in Delhi, the Electropreneur 2.0 programme comes with a Rs 47 crore outlay and a bold target-nurture 500 startups in Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM), with a deliberate focus on talent outside metros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034780,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034779\/revisions\/1034780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}