Students taking admission in marked educational institutions this year and who passed the Class 12 examination with more than 75 per cent marks in previous years can also take the benefit of Mukhya Mantri Medhavi Vidyarthi Yojana.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was addressing the India Today Mind Rocks Youth Summit organised on Friday at Gyan Vigan Bhavan in Barkatullah University.
Among those who attend the Youth Summit organised by India Today included Minister of State for Cooperatives Vishwas Sarang, MlA Jaivardhan Singh, Sarpanch Bhakti Sharma and a large number of youths.
Chouhan called upon the youths to aim for a fruitful, successful, extraordinary life. He told them to prepare a roadmap, work hard and think high. A person becomes what he thinks. If one resolves, nothing is impossible. Need is for natural exposure of one’s capacity. Blind imitation is not good. There are endless possibilities for the state’s youths. New investment is creating new opportunities for employment. There are ample opportunities for self-employment. Food processing units can be put up panchayat wise.
Financial assistance schemes are being implemented with 5 percent interest and 15 per cent loan subsidy for five years on the Government’s guarantee. There is provision of 6 percent interest subsidy for women.
Government has kept a target to set up employment and self-employment for 7.5 lakh youths this year. Efforts are being made to make youth –the job givers. Youth from the state should turn out to be big industrialists.
Government is making efforts to ensure that the dreams of youths should not die due to scarcity. Besides free education, uniform and cycles scholarship is being made available to general category children also apart from scheduled caste, tribes, minority and other backward classes.