To help students grow their start-up ideas developed with government funds, the Delhi government is launching a television program from Sunday for students to present their projects to investors.
As part of its ‘Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum’, the government in September launched the ‘Business Blasters’ initiative in all its senior secondary schools, wherein students of class XI and XII would be given a seed of Rs 2,000 each to develop their entrepreneurship ideas. were given as money.
The television program aims to be the next step in their start-up plan by helping them attract large investments.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told Indian Express“The feedback we have received from schools is that most students are also
Excited to do things differently and innovate… Many start-up ideas serve as learning experiences, for them to learn to work in teams, to identify and solve problems, and to process Doing that failure and success is a part of life. But I want to see some ideas moving forward. For this the only thing is that we have to go to the market so that investors take interest in them and bring money. Students have made plans about what they want to do with their start-ups in a year or so. We gave the initial seed amount; Now we are launching these for the investors. We are not looking at huge investments: there are 1 lakh, 2 lakh, 3 lakh investments… The TV program is about how budding entrepreneurs are approaching investors and presenting their ideas and plans. By coming forward, investors will be the first to agree to invest. Second, they know these are children and they are ready to support and train them.”
In the show, for which the government says they have tied up with some TV channels, students will present their views including Sisodia and Urban Company CEO Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Chaayos founder Nitin Saluja and Sheeroz CEO Sairi Chahal.
According to Sisodia, the government is planning an “investor summit” next year to attract more investments for the shortlisted start-ups.
“We now have 51,000 start-ups from around 3 lakh students across all our schools. We are preparing to hold an Investor Summit in February for 150 or more of the most promising and successful to help take students to the next level. There, I am assuming that each of these will find some investor or the other to support them,” he said.
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