The pre-event ceremony of 'Engaging Young India' programme was organised in a local hotel on Tuesday.
The programme, which starts from September 17 aims to provide a platform to the young entrepreneurs for starting their own business. Addressing the ceremony the President of 'Engaging Young India' Asha Manorama Doberiyal Sharma said the programme would be organised at Business Park. In the programe five sessions on startups and the schemes of State Government would be organized in which the youths would interact with the experts and among themselves.
A "Bhadas Session' would also be organised during the programme in which the participants can vent out their anger albeit in a parliamentary language.
In the sessions the experts would speak on the topics like social and cultural evils, substance abuse and other issues related with the youth. Sharma said that the state government has decided to set up a corpus of Rs 10 Crore, started rural haat and many schemes to increase the income of women. She said that scheme like providing a seed capital of Rs 5000 for more than 12000 self help group, single window scheme and other employment generating ventures would be discussed in detail during the programme.
Sharma said that benefits of availability of 22 hour power, single window scheme and higher per capita income of the state than the national average would also be informed to the youth. She said that the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat has initiated many steps to galvanize startups in the state.
In the first session of Pre event programme recipient of Padma Shree Avedash Kaushal and Vaidya Balendu Prakash were the chief Guests. A blood donation camp was also organized on the occasion. The organizers also felicitated the blood donors.
In the second session Dr Ajit Nigam and Nitesh Kaushik informed about basics of startups and answered the questions of the participants. large number of youths participated in the programme.