Congratulations, Dream Merchant, Shri Sisodiaji,

 

 

Context :

For the first time, we are telling students to dream of a business  : Sisodia   /  HT  /  28 Nov 2021

Extract :

Sisodia, who holds the education portfolio, said some of the promising ideas that had come up as part of the Business Blaster initiative will be televised.

As part of the programme, students in class 11 and 12 will be mentored and provided financial capital of ₹ 2,000 as seed money to help kick-start their business ideas. Edited excerpts from the interview with Shri Sisodiya :

Through the Business Blasters programme, we are offering a full-fledged option to students to pursue a career in business. In our society, students are primed to pursue jobs. They are not encouraged to harbour dreams of starting their own company or business or innovation. We are introducing this dream to students for the first time, and I believe it is being done at the right age. By the time students enter college, they are too conditioned to pursuing jobs their seniors have been doing. Changing the mindset at that stage, within three years, is tough. This is why we began the entrepreneurship mind set curriculum in school.

Delhi government schools have around 350,000 students in classes 11 and 12. We asked them for business ideas and received around 51,000 ideas. Among these, some will fail. Some students may succeed, but might not be inclined to pursue their ideas further and could choose something else in life.

The third set of students will be those who succeed. They will be progressive and innovative and will create jobs.

These ideas will be taken to the last stage in February, when we will connect investors with the 10 best ideas. We will give direct admission to the top 100 students into institutions such as Delhi Technological University.

Yes, it is already happening. We have asked schools to engage local entrepreneurs and create a panel.

At the second stage, as students go to the district and state levels, we will attach business coaches with them. MBA students or others in higher education could serve as coaches.

Lastly, investors are aware they are dealing with school students and will coach them.

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MY  TAKE  :

Some 3 YEARS ago, I sent following e-mail to Shri Sisodiaji :

Thank You, Shri Sisodiaji, ………………………..[ 29 Dec 2018 ]

Extract :

Dear Shri Sisodiaji,

 

 Congratulations on this initiative to re-orient the very FOCUS of our Education System from producing “ Job Seekers “ to “ Job Generators “

 

 If adopted universally ( - with incorporation of my above-mentioned suggestions ) all over India ( by all the State Governments ), we would have ready by 2025,

 

 GM ( Genetically Modified )  GENERATION of ENTREPRENEURS

 

 

That suggestion ( for refocusing of our Education System ) was described in following 6 YEAR old e-mail :

TEN MILLION ENTREPRENEURS ?........................ [ 19 Oct 2015 ]

 

Extract :

Here is how we can produce a generation of ENTREPRENEURS, 5 years from now ( if we start NOW ) :

 

*   Introduce " Entrepreneurship " as an mandatory subject in High Schools and

     Colleges

  

*   Each such School / College to be " Adopted " by a Corporate ( CSR ? )

 

*   Each adopting Corporate will bear the full expense of running this course (

    Teachers' Salaries etc )

 

*   Such expense to be tax-exempt ( or offset as Corporate CSR obligation )

 

*   Exams to be in the form of presentation by teams of final year students on,

  

    " HERE IS A BUSINESS I PLAN TO START "

  

*   Presentations to be judged by Panels of Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors /

    Incubators etc

 

    

*   Winning teams ( 1st / 2nd / 3rd  prize), to be offered funds by the Panel

     Members ( as seen in some TV  programs )

 

     

*  Fund amounts should be small ( Max Rs 100 lakhs ) and preference to be given

   to projects involving :

   healthcare / education / manufacturing / agriculture / food processing

    etc

 

*   Winning Teams, setting up Start Ups with these VC funds, to be encouraged

       to hire graduating students from the non-winning teams

    

 *  This " encouragement " to be in the form of reimbursement of salaries of such

     hires ( only such hires ),  under,

      " Employment Generation Subsidy " 

     from concerned State Government, where this Start Up gets registered, since,

      employment is a State Subject

 

    Such Salary-reimbursements will be for first 3 years of Start Up

  

·       To create an entire GENERATION of ENTREPRENEURS, we need to start at the

        roots

 

·      Some years later, when this FIRST generation becomes parents of their own 10

        year olds, those SECOND generation youngsters will have entrepreneurship in

        their genes !

 

·       This is one way of preparing a GM ( genetically modified ) Generation, to which,

        there ought to be all round support

 

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Dear Shri Sisodiaji,

I am marking a copy of this blog / mail, to all State Chief Ministers

I hope they will emulate your innovation

Thanking you once again for starting a grass-root revolution

With regards,

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  01 Dec 2021

 

CC :

Sh R Subrahmanyam ( Sec Edu ) / secy.dhe@nic.in

Shri Arvind Kejriwal ( CM – Delhi ) / cmdelhi@nic.in

Shri Sisodiya ( Dy CM – Delhi ) / msisodia.delhi@gov.in

Dr Sunita Kaushik ( Dir-SCERT ) / dir12scert@gmail.com

Dr Nahar Singh ( Dy Dir – SCERT ) / drnahar.singh@gmail.com

Sh M Ramamoorthy ( DCA ) / dcadelhiscert@gmail.com

Sh Sandeep Kumar ( Sec Edu ) / secyedu@nic.in

Sh Sanjay Goel ( Dir Edu ) / diredu@nic.in

Sh Binay Bhushan ( Sp Dir – Pvt Schools ) / add.dir.edu@gmail.com