Deadline: 15-Jul-2020
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the GoI in partnership with Invest India under the ‘Waste to Wealth’ mission has announced the COVID-19 Biomedical Waste Treatment: An Innovation Challenge.
The Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) through the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India has set up the “Swachh Bharat Unnat Bharat” Waste to Wealth Mission to identify technology solutions for India’s waste challenges.
The mission invites technology applications from startups, corporates and entrepreneurs from research institutions to address the challenge of safe collection, disposal/ treatment of large volumes of waste being generated during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which includes the use of masks, gloves, and PPEs by not only frontline workers and airports and railway stations but also by household community individuals such as sanitary municipal workers, barbers, the food business and the general population.
Biomedical Waste Treatment for COVID-19 Innovation Challenge
Solutions invited are aimed to address the Covid-19 related biomedical waste including used gloves, masks, PPEs from airports, railway stations, sanitary workers, municipal workers, commercial and home use. Solutions may include:
- Standalone waste disposal units which convert the waste to energy. Standalone units should use this energy generated for its operation
- It should be possible to install these standalone units in housing complexes, markets etc.
- The prototype should be collection cum disposable unit in one
- Any other suitable method for waste treatment
Incentives
- Fiscal Incentives
- Selected applicants will be provided suitable fiscal support to demonstrate their prototype.
- Non-Fiscal Incentives
- Scale up of successful prototypes will be facilitated by means of providing further fiscal and logistic support, as the case maybe.
Eligibility Criteria
- Indian industry, startups, entrepreneurs and research institutions
- Innovations & solutions which can be deployed immediately are eligible
For more information, visit https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/biomedical-waste-treatment-innovation-challenge.html