Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 'Start-up India' movement on Saturday at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi with an agenda to foster growth for entrepreneurship in India.

The first session kick started Startup India at 9:30 am with the topic '21st Century Calling: Why is innovation important for India?' which was addressed by Finance Minster Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman, Onno Ruhl, Country Director, World Bank and Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan, Secretary, Biotechnology.

A unique Question and Answer (Q&A) session titled 'Face-to-face with Policy-makers' was also organized wherein Secretaries of key government Ministries and Departments answered questions on how government will be creating an enabling ecosystem for Start-ups. The objective was to reinforce commitment of the government towards creating an ecosystem that will be conducive for growth of Start-ups.

This session included various government decision makers such as Hasmukh Adhia, Secretary, Revenue, V S Oberoi, Secretary HRD, Tapan Ray, Secretary Corp Affairs, Shaktikanta Das, Secretary, DEA, Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Science & Tech, K Shivaji Chairman & MD, SIDBI, J S Deepak, Secretary, Department of Electronics & IT, Anup K Pujari, Secretary, MSME and Prashant Saran, Member, Sebi. The topic of discussion in this session was how the government will create an enabling system for start-ups.

The sessions following that was conducted by various start-ups and experts from India as well as international speaking about the start-up environment in India and the requirements to foster further growth.

The last session was on 'How to capitalise entrepreneurship', which was moderated by Minister of State Finance, Jayant Sinha. The panel members included, Sreedhar Prasad, Partner KPMG, sachin Bansal, Founder of Flipkart, Naveen Tewari, Founder of InMobi, Radhika Agarwal, Founder of Shop Clues, Ritesh Agarwal, Founder of OYO Rooms, BJ Arun, CEO of July Systems.

The launch event is aimed at celebrating the entrepreneurship spirit of country's youth, and was attended by CEOs and founders of top start-ups from across the country and abroad.

The Prime Minister is present at the exhibition along with Commerce Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to interact with start-up entrepreneurs. He will release the Start-up Action Plan, and address the gathering.