The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched the second cohort of startups in the sanitation and waste management sectors on November 24, 2025, under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)-Urban. The initiative has been launched in collaboration with the Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.
About 32 startups have been onboarded under the second cohort to accelerate clean, innovative and tech-driven urban solutions. Under the first cohort, around 30 startups have delivered impressive outcomes like treating more than 30 million litres of wastewater and others.