Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Tuesday launched the Delhi government’s ‘Business Blasters’ programme which aims at developing young entrepreneurs at the school-level by providing students seed money to start a business. The programme will be implemented in all Delhi government schools under the “Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC)”.
“I am proud to launch this Business Blasters programme. It is going to be the foundation stone in the development of the country,” Sisodia said at the launch event at the Thyagraj Stadium here.
As part of the programme, which he said was “successful as a pilot project”, class 11 and 12 students will be provided seed money of Rs 2,000 to start a business, he said. “This programme, for the students of classes 11-12, is going to be the basis of the country’s progress. Through this, children will not run after jobs, but jobs will come after these children,” said Sisodia, who is also Delhi’s education minister.
The “Business Blasters” programme was started at the School of Excellence in 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, nine groups of 41 children were formed and each child was given seed money of at least Rs 1,000. These children made huge profits in the project.
