Yogi govt to introduce entrepreneur course to encourage business development skills

Youth of UP will become entrepreneur, online entrepreneurship course will be started in colleges

April 8, 2022

Yogi govt to start basic online course in MSME

The Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government has announced that it will soon start an online course in entrepreneurship. The course aims at inculcating and encouraging business development skills in youth.

The department is also planning to introduce entrepreneurial skills at the senior secondary level so that the foundation of their self-reliance is laid in the formative years.

The course will have general certifications besides advance courses in specific areas like food processing, agricultural production, organic farming, and mechanical work in subsequent stages.

The course will be conducted at the college level and will fetch a certificate for the participants on completion. The certification will be given by the MSME and export promotion departments.

In addition to the certification programme, the MSME department has decided to double the seats under Mati Kala Board and Vishwakarma Shram Samman Scheme.

Additional Chief Secretary, MSME, Navneet Sehgal, said that the course curriculum and modalities are being worked out. “The idea is to make youth self-reliant by empowering them so that they don’t just become job-seekers but job creators,” he said.

Sehgal also said that besides providing the certificate, the 10-day course will also provide exposure visits and bank linkages for loans to translate ideas into action.

Joint commissioner MSME (exports and Lucknow Zone) Pawan Agarwal said that the certification opportunity will be included in the departmental app called MSME Sarthi. He said, “Two main reasons prompted the department to think about this. The chief minister’s priority to create jobs in the state is the first reason while demand for training and experience in certain schemes of Skill Development Mission and bank conditions to disburse loans is the second.”

Earlier in 2020, to promote national self-reliance and to become vocal about local, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had launched the online version of 4 schemes viz. ODOP (Marketing Development Scheme), ODOP (toolkit & training) for SC/ ST & OBC persons, and Hastshilpi Skill development scheme for the citizens of the state at Lucknow. The schemes will be available at the existing online portal of the MSME Directorate.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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