Education Minister Atishi on Thursday said that the Delhi Government has announced the 'Business Blaster' programme for the 2024-25 academic session for the third successive year and seed money of Rs 40 crore will be provided for this programme. Meanwhile, Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva called Atishi’s claims ‘hollow and laughable’.
Addressing the press conference, Atishi shared that they are enthused with the success of the programme for the last two years. Launching the programme for 2024-2025, Education Minister Atishi shared, “With 2.45 lakh student entrepreneurs, seed money of Rs 40 crore and more than 40,000 startup ideas, the Business Blasters program will once again prove to be a superhit.”
She added that if the children who have passed class 12 and have left school can provide employment to the youth of our country, lakhs of jobs can be created across the country. “I am happy to announce today that this year in 2024-25 also, the Business Blasters Program is being started in all the schools of Delhi Government,” Atishi stated, adding that under the Business Blasters program, our children will not become job seekers but job providers even before completing their studies.
The senior AAP leader said approximately 40,000 ideas and startups have begun working under the programme, including perfume, chocolate, eco-friendly products, and technology. She also mentioned that this year too, the government school students will become job providers before completing their studies.
"This programme aims to promote entrepreneurship and self-employment among students, enabling them to become job creators rather than job seekers," Atishi said. Attacking the BJP, she claimed, “On one hand unemployment is increasing, youth need jobs, on the other hand, no provision of employment is being made for the youth by the BJP-ruled central government. On the other hand, the Delhi government is trying to make the youth who emerge from the education system of Delhi not job seekers but job providers,”
In response to a question, Atishi said that some private schools have voluntarily participated in this, so the Delhi government is also providing opportunities for this program to those schools that want to participate in this.
Hitting out at the AAP leader, the Delhi BJP chief stated, “It is disgraceful that Minister Atishi is claiming to develop business ideas from students by giving them merely Rs 136 per month and presenting this as her government’s achievement.”
He demanded clarification from her about how many people have got jobs through the ‘Business Blasters Scheme’ or any other scheme. “Atishi’s claims of employment are completely false, and the truth is that Arvind Kejriwal’s government has ruined the lives of thousands of youths under the pretense of contractual jobs like bus marshals. The Kejriwal government distributed contractual jobs to youths without following proper administrative procedures, and today, most of them are unemployed,” he said.
