scheduled start and stop for VMs on Azure

Setting up auto-shutdown on Azure VMs is easy, there is an option under Operations - Auto-shutdown directly in the VM's left-hand side panel. Setting up auto-startup is more involved. Currently, Azure has a Start/Stop VMs V2 feature which can directly be deployed. But since it makes use of some storage and so on, it is billed separately. And it is not available to deploy in the "South India" region. But still, choosing the default region, it is able to start our "South India" VM when I configured it using the "start all VMs in a particular Resource group" method, like

"RequestScopes": { "ResourceGroups": [ "/subscriptions/12our78-1sub4-56id8-1234-123456781234/resourceGroups/OurResourceGrp/" ],

as in the example linked above.