Tripura Fair Participation Subsidy

## Tripura Industrial Investment Promotion Incentives Scheme, 2022 (TIIPIS 2022)

The Department of Industries and Commerce, Government of Tripura, runs the Tripura Industrial Investment Promotion Incentives Scheme, 2022 (TIIPIS 2022). Under this scheme, a Tripura industrial enterprise can recover a portion of what it spends on participating in State and national level fairs and exhibitions.

The scheme reimburses 50% of the expenditure incurred on travelling expenses for one person and on transportation of goods. Each participation is capped at Rs.1.00 lakh, and a unit may take part in a maximum of 2 fairs in a year. The Rs.1.00 lakh ceiling applies per participation. The two-fair limit restricts how many times a unit may claim in a year; it does not double the rupee ceiling and should not be read as a two-lakh award.

This is a standalone incentive — incentive 10 of TIIPIS 2022 — claimed through that scheme's process. It is separate from the export-promotion subsidy and from the State transport subsidy for secondary raw materials. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with no advertised closing date, through the State's SWAAGAT single-window portal at https://swaagat.tripura.gov.in/.

The payment is a reimbursement, not a loan and not equity. The unit attends an eligible State or national fair, retains tickets and goods-transport bills covering one traveller plus the exhibits, and then claims 50% of those costs, up to Rs.1.00 lakh for that participation. International fairs, where contemplated, require prior approval. This clause states no sector list, imposes no DPIIT Startup India mandate, and carries no relocation requirement. Founders retain their equity. The reimbursement is not repayable. The Department verifies the fair, the one-person travel rule, the goods-transport bills, the per-participation ceiling, and that the unit has not already used both of its two fairs for the year.

- Verify that the fair is held at State or national level; for an international fair, obtain prior approval first - Sign up or sign in at the SWAAGAT portal, https://swaagat.tripura.gov.in/ - Raise a claim for fair and exhibition participation under TIIPIS 2022 - Upload the organiser's confirmation, travel bills for one person, and bills for goods transport - Check that two fairs have not already been claimed by you in the same year - File the claim for that participation, keeping in mind the ceiling of Rs.1.00 lakhs per participation - Follow the file's progress while the Department of Industries and Commerce checks the fair, the one-person travel rule and the number of participations in the year - Once approved, 50% of the verified costs is reimbursed, subject to a maximum of Rs.1.00 lakh for that participation

There is no competitive element and no pitch stage. The Department of Industries and Commerce reviews every claim for compliance with the TIIPIS 2022 fairs clause, checking that the applicant is an eligible industrial enterprise, that the fair is a State or national one (or that prior approval was obtained for an international fair), that travel is confined to one person in addition to goods transport, that the claim stays within the Rs.1.00 lakhs ceiling per participation, and that no more than two fairs are claimed in the year. Where a claim breaches the one-person travel rule, the per-participation ceiling, or the two-fair annual limit, it is reduced or rejected.

Once verified, claims are reimbursed at 50% of eligible costs, subject to a maximum of Rs.1.00 lakh per participation. No ranking of applicants against one another takes place.