Aatmanirbhar Gujarat ICT Assistance — Up to ₹5 Lakh for MSMEs — Frequently Asked Questions

The ceiling is ₹5,00,000 for the whole operative period of the scheme. Within that ceiling, the reimbursement works out to up to 65% of the capital expenditure you have incurred on ICT facilities, so the exact figure depends on how much qualifying spend you can document.

It covers capital expenditure on Information and Communication Technology facilities. In practice that means the technology assets an enterprise buys rather than its routine running costs — hardware used for cloud computing, networking infrastructure, and comparable digital technologies that the enterprise puts in place.

No. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and the scheme stays open through its operative period, which ends on 4 October 2027. You can apply once your enterprise and your ICT spending meet the scheme's conditions.

The applicant has to be a Micro, Small or Medium enterprise holding the applicable registration or acknowledgment from the Ministry of MSME or DPIIT. New manufacturing enterprises qualify, as do existing manufacturing enterprises that are expanding or diversifying, provided commercial production begins within the scheme's operative period of 5 October 2022 to 4 October 2027.

Yes. The scheme requires the enterprise to have obtained acknowledgment or registration from the Ministry of MSME or from DPIIT, as applicable. This registration is one of the eligibility conditions the reviewing committee checks.

No. This is a subsidy, paid as a reimbursement of capital expenditure, so it is non-dilutive — the government does not receive shares, a stake or any ownership interest in your enterprise in exchange.

Partly, yes. Assistance is available for expenses incurred during the previous scheme's operative period up to the date the current Government Resolution was issued. Spending from that earlier window can therefore be considered alongside your current ICT capital expenditure.

Applications go through Gujarat's Investor Facilitation Portal. Register there using the New Investor Registration option, submit the registration form, and confirm your email address through the verification link sent to you. Once your registration is complete, log in with your email address and password, then fill in the required business details and upload the mandatory documents to finish the application. If you get stuck, the portal's Contact Us section is the route for help.

The portal will ask you to complete your business details and upload the mandatory documents specified in the application. Because the assistance is a reimbursement, documentation relating to your capital expenditure on ICT facilities is the material that gets scrutinised most closely during verification, so keep those records ready.

It is administered by the Industries and Mines Department of the Government of Gujarat. The Aatmanirbhar Gujarat Scheme for MSMEs, of which this ICT component is a part, is operative from 5 October 2022 to 4 October 2027.

Aatmanirbhar Gujarat ICT Assistance — Up to ₹5 Lakh for MSMEs is offered by Industries and Mines Department, Government of Gujarat, a government body. It is provided as non-dilutive funding.