The Delhi government on Monday organised a consultation workshop for ‘Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum’ with stakeholders and experts to come up with a curriculum that the government hopes to introduce in the upcoming academic year. The curriculum is being designed for 6 lakh students studying in Classes IX-XII of the government schools.
Big day for job market
Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia while addressing the participants said the introduction of the curriculum would be a big day for the job market and the economy of the country. He said it was an uplifting fact that India boasts the biggest youth force in the world, but it is a worrying fact that it is also a nation of the biggest unemployed educated youth force in the world.
“Despite having the most laborious and intelligent youth force, none of the 50 biggest companies of the world is Indian. Most Indian youth today wish to get placed in a multinational company and a job seeker economy can never compete with a job providing economy. The roots of the problems need a fix and we believe it lies in school education,” said Mr. Sisodia.
Courage to think
Briefing participants about what the entrepreneurship curriculum intends to do, the Education Minister said that the idea was not to impart financial/marketing/communication/management skills in the students but to give them the courage to think big and new.
Cites examples
“Although the fulcrum idea behind entrepreneurship mindset curriculum is to help students strive to become job givers, instead of job seekers, but having said that, the entrepreneurial ‘mindset’ is important in all walks of life, for a businessman as well as for a officer. The same mindset led Mark Zuckerberg to build Facebook and a government officer Verghese Kurien to lead the second biggest dairy of India, AMUL, right from its inception,” he said.
