Punjab Government on Tuesday inaugurated Business Blaster Young Entrepreneur Scheme to fulfill dreams of the students studying in the state’s government schools to become entrepreneurs.
Launching the scheme, the state’s School Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains said that the Government wants to make Punjab's education model better than the rest of the world, and they are working dedicatedly to ensure that the students, who have studied in the Punjab Government schools, would not be concerned about their future.
“To boost business enterprises in the state, children of government schools will become ‘job-givers’ and not ‘job-seekers’,” he said.
Bains said that to fulfil this aim, the Punjab Government has decided to start the Business Blaster Young Entrepreneur Scheme under which, the students of Class XI will be provided “seed money” of Rs 2,000 to start a business, which is aimed at developing young entrepreneurs at the school-level.
“Under the first phase, the scheme will be launched in 31 schools in nine districts of Punjab, including Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Sangrur, Hoshiarpur, Ferozepur, Ropar, and Sahibzada Ajit Singh (SAS) Nagar (Mohali). The scheme will be implemented in all schools of Punjab from the next academic year, he added.
The Minister said that under this scheme, first the business proposals will be taken from the children and then those business proposals will be discussed with established industrialists and a mixed group of eight students will be formed for the proposal which is found suitable and they will be given complete guidance.
“There are intelligent children studying in the state government schools who have the ability to change the country and the world and I hope that this scheme will not only make the students of its government schools employers but also eliminate many problems of the state,” he said.