{"id":1042834,"date":"2026-10-13T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042834"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:30:07","slug":"karnataka-government-opens-its-doors-to-startups-becomes-1st-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/karnataka-government-opens-its-doors-to-startups-becomes-1st-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka government opens its doors to startups, becomes 1st customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In a move that could reshape how public institutions buy innovation, the Karnataka government is positioning itself as a genuine customer for homegrown startups through the Government First programme \u2013 an initiative of the Department of Electronics, IT,BT and S&amp;T and ITBT. <\/p>\n<p>The first call under the programme invites Karnataka-based startups with deployment-ready solutions to tackle real operational challenges identified by government departments. The inaugural problem statements come from Praja Seva and Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board. They span grievance redressal, citizen call centres, e-office, non-revenue water, treated wastewater, asset management and digital twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In a move that could reshape how public institutions buy innovation, the Karnataka government is positioning itself as a genuine customer for homegrown startups through the Government First programme \u2013 an initiative of the Department of Electronics, IT,BT and S&amp;T and ITBT. The first call under the programme invites Karnataka-based startups with deployment-ready solutions to tackle real operational challenges identified by government departments. The inaugural problem statements come from Praja Seva and Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board. They span grievance redressal, citizen call centres, e-office, non-revenue water, treated wastewater, asset management and digital twins.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042834","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=1042834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042845,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042834\/revisions\/1042845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}