New Delhi, Feb 18, 2020: The Delhi government plans to enroll 17,000 entrepreneurs as volunteers to help hone the “entrepreneurial mindset” among school students.
Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia on February 18 directed the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC) to engage the volunteers.
“We need to create a pool of 17,000 entrepreneurs to take them to each of the classrooms. There is the need to inculcate an entrepreneurial mindset among our students in which the Live Interactions with Entrepreneurs play a very important part. Our entrepreneurs’ recollection of their journey will help the students learn from real-life experiences,” Sisodia told a meeting of the EMC officials.
“During interaction sessions, we should have a two-way interaction between students and entrepreneurs in a small setting of 30-40 for better communication and understanding,” he added.
With the intent to build the entrepreneurship skills through live projects, the Delhi government plans to give seed money to the students of grades 11 and 12.
“The Delhi government will give out seed money of 1,000 rupees to each student for their field project. They will be involved in entrepreneurial activities which will enable them to ‘think-out-of-the box’ and take on a solution-centric approach,” said Sisodia.
The Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum was started in the year 2019-20 to instill entrepreneurial mindsets in the students of Delhi Government schools.
The EMC has been developed by the State Council of Educational Research And Training, Delhi, with the help of teachers and NGOs and focuses on providing real-life experiences to students which can help them turn out to be responsible profess.
Source: Asian News International