State’s first Entrepreneurship Development Centre began at Govindpura Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Bhopal on Tuesday. Minister of State for Technical Education, Skill Development (Independent Charge), School Education and labour Deepak Joshi dedicated the Entrepreneurship Development Centre and Apprentice Cell. He also inspected the centre and apprised himself about the counselling and credit linkage.
Joshi mentioned that after deliberating with industrialists of all the big cities, training will be imparted in IITs as per their requirements. He further said that an awareness programme will be conducted in all the IITs regarding activities of the centre. The centre will pave a way for students to progress.
Joshi said that these kinds of centres will fulfil the dream of the Prime Minister for ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’. Joshi asserted that counselling process should be done in easy language.
Director Skill Development Sanjeev Singh said that besides counselling in the centre, a project report will also be made for bank loan. Centre will function with the cooperation of Department for International Development (DFID) of UK Government and Entrepreneurship Development Institute- Ahmedabad. He informed that training will be imparted to the Training and Development Officer of the ITI.