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,
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
* 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 f
* 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
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