Aiming to create a generation of job providers, the Delhi government will on Tuesday launch the ‘Business Blasters’ programme, which envisages giving Rs 2,000 each to as many as 3.5 lakh students to set up their own businesses under the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC). This comes after successful completion of a pilot project at a government school in the city.
“After completing studies from schools and colleges, students should have the mentality to become job providers and not job seekers and contribute to the economy of the country. They should not stand in lines for jobs, but jobs should come to them,” said Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister.
The EMC was launched in 2019 in all Delhi government schools. As part of this, the Business Blasters programme was started at the School of Excellence, Khichripur under a pilot project. Its purpose was to inculcate the belief in children that whatever work they do, they should do it with an entrepreneurial mindset. In this project, 9 groups of 41 students were formed and each student was given seed money of Rs 1,000. The amount was increased to Rs 2,000 in July 2021.
The minister informed that the seed money project was started as a pilot project on a school in Khichdipur and thousands of rupees were given to the children so that they could start their own business.
“41 children of the same school started seed money investment by forming nine groups. All of them are running in profit. This is important because, in our country, the solution to unemployment is found politically,” he added.
Children of Khichdipur school were given Rs 1,000 each as seed money under the pilot project. Sisodia has now increased the amount to Rs 2,000 and the seed money project will be implemented in all government schools across Delhi from Tuesday.
