Rural Entrepreneurship has a power to boost indigenous innovations, providing solutions not only to challenges of local community but also has potential to augment sustainable development, economic growth and employment avenues. Rural Enterprises are prime force to spur innovations and contribute to country’s economic pool as well as create opportunities for employment generation. However, rural enterprises and startups face lot of challenges in terms of lack of tech innovativeness, product quality, certification, branding, investment for growing operations and competition with bigger units. Further, there is lack of connect with R&D institutions/technology providers, which is one of the prime road blocker for rural startup & businesses.

PSCST realized the need to build strategic framework and mechanism to push acceleration of local innovators, PSCST has set up first-of-its-kind Rural Milieu Accelerator at Talwara at 4 acre land adjoining its Rural Innovation & Application Centre in collaboration with Unati Cooperative Society. The Accelerator has been set up with the vision to provide single platform to offer physical space for accelerating ideas; test bedding of innovations; providing facilities for upscaling & validation and connect with stakeholders to accelerate start ups, SHGs, Small Enterprises operational in Rural areas etc.