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To inculcate entrepreneurial skills in students from an early age, the Delhi government is to introduce an entrepreneurship curriculum in its schools from next year.
“The curriculum will start from grade 9 onwards. The aim is to make students employers rather than employees,” said Manish Sisodia, Delhi Education Minister, during an event here on Tuesday.
Speaking during Shell India’s NXplorers, he said workshops like these would help students think out of the box.
NXplorers is Shell’s STEM education programme for young people, aged between 14 to 19 years. The objective of the programme is to build awareness, develop knowledge, and provide thinking tools to leaders of the future, using a collaborative, innovative, and inter-disciplinary approach to solving real world challenges.
Sisodia said there is a need for new-age thinking and students should not fear it. “There is a need to identify the problem and the solutions we have, and how that problem can be solved,” said Sisodia.
He also emphasised that there is a need to understand and go beyond what is already given in the books. “We are grateful to the government of Delhi for partnering with us on this programme, and we aim to increase participation from schools in the region in the next three years,” said Nitin Prasad, Chairman, Shell Companies in India.
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