Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan launched a 3-year partnership “Education to Entrepreneurship: Empowering a generation of students, educators and entrepreneurs” between Ministry of Education, Ministry Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Meta in New Delhi. 3 Letters of Intent (LoI) were exchanged between Meta and NIESBUD, AICTE and CBSE. Minister of State for Education Smt. Annpurna Devi and Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar also graced the occasion.
Meta will provide digital marketing skills to 5 lakh entrepreneurs in 7 regional languages over 3 years through a partnership with NIESBUD. Training will be available for both budding and existing entrepreneurs. Three short films showcase the partnership details. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan said that the initiative launched is in furtherance to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of making India a skill capital of the world and empowering our AmritPeedhi.
He further said that ‘Education to Entrepreneurship’ partnership is a game-changer, which will take Digital Skilling to the grassroots. This will build capacities of our talent pool, seamlessly connect students, youth, workforce & micro-entrepreneurs, with futuristic technologies and transform our Amrit Peedhi into new-age problem solvers and entrepreneurs.
