Punjab: Class XI, XII students to be imparted marketing skills from next session

Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains and AAP person Manish Sisodia.

State Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains connected Saturday said concern and selling skills would beryllium imparted to students of Classes XI and XII from the adjacent league nether the Punjab Young Entrepreneurs Scheme.

Addressing the Business Blasters Expo-2025 here, helium said students were being encouraged to go occupation creators alternatively of occupation seekers. He said 10 student-led ventured selected during the expo would beryllium fixed fiscal assistance. He claimed that the authorities had “started a caller epoch of pupil entrepreneurship with a aviator task successful 30 schools”, wherever students were asked to transportation their concern ideas.

“One shining illustration is simply a miss belonging to a beneath poorness enactment household of a authorities successful schoolhouse successful Mullanpur Dakhan, who created decorative angiosperm pots that sold 20 times their outgo successful Ludhiana,” helium said. “Similarly a younker from my ain constituency present buys T-shirts from Gurugram and resells them via Instagram, earning Rs 50,000 a month,” the curate added.

Senior AAP person Manish Sisodia termed the strategy a “milestone”, stressing that students indispensable summation real-world learning.