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Why we picked it
A named Chandigarh founder puts real numbers on the gap between the promised 60-day SISFS disbursal and the actual 4 to 5 months founders wait from incorporation to money in the account. He also names the hidden costs (incubators pushing for equity, space charges, quid-pro-quo) that nobody puts in the scheme brochure, which is exactly why you plan a bridge instead of trusting the timeline.
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Startupro News
by Startupro News (featuring founder Sunil Kumar Poonia)
7 min read
- The written rule is 45 days to select and 60 days to disburse; the lived reality he reports is 4 to 5 months, and slow incubators plus heavy due diligence are the reason.
- An approved grant is not clean money: intermediaries can attach equity asks, space charges, or informal conditions, so read who sits between you and the funds.
- Founders outside metros and those over the 2-year age cutoff face structural friction, so do not assume traction alone gets you paid on time.
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This is the practical explainer that shows the money arriving in four milestone-tied tranches (business plan approved, prototype demoed, beta users on, first customers acquired) with rough rupee splits, so you see concretely why a 20 lakh grant never lands as one payment. Written by a CA, it also spells out the utilization-certificate and progress-report gate that unlocks each release.
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Patron Accounting
by Patron Accounting (CA firm)
10 min read
- The grant is released in roughly four tranches (about Rs 5-7L, 5-7L, 3-5L, 3-5L) each unlocked by a demonstrated milestone, not on a calendar date.
- Every subsequent tranche requires a progress report plus a utilization certificate; miss a milestone and the remaining money can be withheld entirely.
- Grant funds are ring-fenced to product development, not infrastructure or rent, so a runway plan that leans on grant cash for salaries or office costs breaks the rules and the math.
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This gets under the hood of the single document that gates your next tranche: the utilization certificate. It walks through exactly what a CA verifies (RTGS/NEFT receipt proof, invoice-by-invoice vouchers, opening and closing bank balances, spend within the sanctioned purpose and period), so you set up clean books from day one instead of scrambling when release two is held hostage to paperwork.
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by CAclubindia contributor
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- The UC is an auditor-verified reconciliation: grant received, party-wise expenditure with invoices, and closing balance must all tie out before the next installment moves.
- Every rupee must map to a voucher or invoice and be spent within the sanctioned purpose and stipulated period, which is why you front-load only provable, invoiceable spend.
- Sloppy records are the real bottleneck on tranche two: the money is approved, but release waits on a clean, CA-signed certificate you have to produce.
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