Tejaswi program to be started to develop Entrepreneurial Confidence & Skills in students | 21 Apr 2023

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On 20 April 2023, a multilateral MoU was signed for the implementation of the Tejaswi program prepared by the Department of School Education in the Ministry to develop entrepreneurial confidence and skills among students.

Key Points

• A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by the Commissioner of Public Instruction, the State Open School & Associate organization, the Udyam Learning Foundation and The Education Alliance.
• It is worth mentioning that under the Tejasvi program, students will be provided information about new industries and self-business from school time itself. A separate curriculum has also been developed for this.
• Based on this curriculum, special classes of 40-40 minutes will be conducted three days a week in the schools.
• Along with this, experience-based training programs and project work based on various innovative businesses will also be conducted. The necessary amount for this will also be made available by the government under the programme so that school students will be motivated to self-employment and the establishment of new enterprises.
• On this occasion, Rashmi Arun Shami, Principal Secretary, School Education said that the Tejasvi program is being started to develop the abilities and professional attitude of the students to face the challenges right from the school level.
• He said that this program is currently being started on an experimental basis for the students of classes IX and XI of the government schools of Bhopal and Indore, the two metropolitan cities of the state, which can be operated in the entire state among the students of class 9 to 12 in future.
• Commissioner of Public Instruction Anubha Srivastava said that the objective of this program is to inculcate entrepreneurial confidence and 21st-century skills in the students so that they are better prepared for the challenges of life.
• He told that under the 'Tejaswi MP Programme', about 44,780 students of class 9th in 301 government schools of Bhopal & Indore and 22,738 students of class 11th of 176 schools of these two cities will be benefited under 'Tejaswi MP Social and Business Innovation Challenge Programme'.