Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan announced a 3-year partnership titled “Education to Entrepreneurship: Empowering a Generation of Students, Educators and Entrepreneurs” between the Ministry of Education, Ministry Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, and Meta in New Delhi. Three Letters of Intent (LoI) were exchanged between Meta, NIESBUD, AICTE, and CBSE. Ministers Annpurna Devi and Rajeev Chandrasekhar also attended the event.
Speaking at the event, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan said that the initiative launched today 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 added 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.
Under the partnership with NIESBUD, 5 lakh entrepreneurs will get access to digital marketing skills by Meta over the next 3 years. Budding and existing entrepreneurs will be trained in digital marketing skills using Meta platforms in 7 regional languages to begin with. Three short films were also showcased highlighting the details about the partnerships.
