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Any student — at school, college or university — and any young person or innovator in India. You can enter on your own or as a team under one registration. You don’t need a startup, a company or any prior experience — an idea is enough.

Entry is ₹99 + GST, and each city round shows its amount before you pay. You pay once, after you’ve written your idea and confirmed you want to submit it — never before.

Your idea is scored out of 100 on six parameters, you see the full report behind that score the moment it is ready, your entry goes to that city’s jury for the top three — and The Founder’s Starter Pack, four short ebooks that are yours whether you win or not.

One idea per registration, and one registration per email in a round. If you want to enter a second idea, register for another city’s round.

Yes. Add your teammates when you register: the entry carries your team’s name and their names, and the jury sees the whole team. Everything we send — the confirmation, the result — goes to the email you registered with, so use one the team checks.

Rounds open city by city through the season. Watch the Rounds section on the home page, or write to us and we’ll tell you when your city opens.

First, your idea in your own words — anywhere from 20 to 500 words. Then eight short questions: the space it’s in, the problem, how much that problem hurts, your solution, how far you’ve built it, the market and who else is there, how it makes money, and why you. Two of them are optional. Most students finish in about 20 minutes.

Both are optional and both are offered at the start. The deck must be a PDF up to 10 MB; the video is a link (YouTube, Drive, anything that opens). Both are shown to the jury alongside your idea.

Yes — until you submit. You can go back to any step, edit it and have the idea checked again. After you submit, the entry is final.

Three re-checks after the first score. That’s deliberate: the exercise is to think the idea through, not to keep rewording it until the number moves.

Your idea is not published anywhere on this site. It is read by the Bharat Idea League team and by the jury of the city round you entered — nobody else. The jury’s access ends when the round does: once a city round closes, the jurors can no longer open the entries or their reports.

Six parameters: Problem Clarity (20%), Market Opportunity (20%), Feasibility (20%), Competition Reality (15%), Revenue Logic (15%) and Founder Fit (10%). Each is scored out of 10 and weighted into a score out of 100.

The verdict, your score on each of the six parameters with the reasoning behind it, what’s strong, what’s risky, and what to do next. It appears on screen as soon as the scoring finishes, and the jury of your round reads the same report.

No. The score is a reading of the idea as written today, and the jury ranks ideas on their own judgement — a lower-scoring idea argued well has won rooms before. Read the risks, fix what you can, and re-check.

No. The jury sees your score as context, but the top three of each city are the jury’s call, combined and confirmed by the organisers.

Each city round has its own jury — faculty from the host college, founders, and people from the industry the round draws on.

In a small round, yes — every submitted idea, in full. In a large one that is not possible: a round with a thousand entries would be a hundred hours of reading per juror, and a jury that skims is worse for you than an honest shortlist. So in a large round the highest-scoring entries go to the jury in full — about the top twenty, extended so that nobody who ties with the last place on the list is cut out of it. Every juror can also pull in any other entry from the round and read it, so no idea is out of reach.

The list is never cut through the middle of a tie. If the twentieth place is a score four entries share, all four go to the jury. If a tie is too large for that, the entries in it are separated by their parameter scores, in weight order — Problem Clarity first, then Market Opportunity, Feasibility, Competition Reality, Revenue Logic and Founder Fit — and the first parameter where they differ decides. The same rule breaks a tie for the top three, so it is one rule, used the same way everywhere.

Your idea in your own words, your answers, your score and report, and your deck or video if you attached them. Your name and college are not shown to the jurors at all — a round is hosted at a college whose own faculty may be judging, and nobody should have to wonder whether that mattered. They rank the ideas; the organisers, who confirm the final three but do not rank, are the ones who know whose idea is whose.

Every juror picks their own 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The organisers see all the jurors’ picks together and confirm the final three for that city.

Your own score and report appear on screen the moment the scoring finishes, before you leave the page — read them there. The top three of a city are announced at that city’s event.

Not yet. Your entry, score and report are saved, and the student dashboard that opens them up goes live in December 2026. Until then the copy you see at submission is the one to keep, and your confirmation email carries your entry reference.

Cash prizes in every city, awarded in person at the host college: ₹10,000 for 1st, ₹5,000 for 2nd and ₹2,000 for 3rd.

Four short ebooks, free with every entry, win or lose: Deck That Wins (how to build a pitch deck), Zero to Startup (what a startup is and how to take an idea to a first version), Ship It Faster (a cheatsheet for going from idea to first version in a weekend) and Scheme Smart (the government support a student founder in India can actually use). We send them to the email on your entry.

Every city’s top three go forward, and the best five among them pitch to investors and industry leaders at the National Summit in Delhi.

No. Opportunities come from the incubators and investors in the room, case by case. Nothing beyond the score, the report and the prizes is promised with your entry.

Your college hosts its city’s round on campus. You give the hall and bring your students; we run registration, the scoring, the leaderboard and the prizes.

Yes. Faculty of the host college are invited onto that round’s jury and get a dashboard where they read every submission and pick their top three.

Tell us your preferred month when you write in. Most rounds are set up a few weeks ahead, once the date, the hall and the expected number of students are fixed.

Use the hosting form — it asks for your college, city, your role and a preferred month, and our team replies within two working days.

It holds your entry, your score and your report, and it’s how you sign back in to finish an entry you started. The dashboard that opens them for reading again goes live in December 2026.

It stays in your account with its report. It is not sold, not published and not sent to investors without you asking.

Yes. Write to us from the email on your account and we’ll delete it.