UP to teach 'entrepreneurship' in Universities

Lucknow, Jan 6 (KNN) The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government, along with the higher education department, is working on a plan to introduce 'entrepreneurship' as a subject in the early classes for students, said Navneet Sehgal, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and Export Promotion.

He said this while addressing the inaugural session of the online faculty development programme of Department of Commerce, Lucknow University, on Tuesday, where Sehgal urged the University to introduce the subject exclusively on entrepreneurship.

He also urged the students to change their mindset of only dreaming about bagging a good job and asked education institutes and universities to promote entrepreneurship in every individual.

“A university is the right place to teach entrepreneurship through which students can contribute towards the growth of the nation,” he said.

He further said that the state government is willing to work with institutions to impart knowledge to students about various government schemes, including self-employment ones, of which the youth could take advantage.

“The state government is willing to send details to the commerce department about entrepreneurship if they want to introduce the subject and we can help in skill improvement and provide financial assistance in entrepreneurship development. It will be a very good beginning in UP as no other state has started it yet,” he asserted.

Explaining about the scope of MSME in UP, he said the state has a large base of MSME, adding, ''UP traditionally has 14.5 per cent of total MSMEs running into 9 million. They employ more than 3 crore people.”

Focussing on the One District One Product (ODOP) scheme that was launched by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the ACS said that it is entirely based on the concept of becoming self-reliant for growth and fulfilling the PM’s call of vocal for local.