CM makes case for Delhi students to turn entrepreneurs

nNEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday for the first time joined government school students in an online interaction aimed at promoting entrepreneurship.

Kejriwal was joined by deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and Arjun Malhotra, who co-founded the HCL group.

The CM told students how the 71-year-old entrepreneur and industrialist is a qualified engineer from Iit-kharagpur, the institute from which Kejriwal had himself graduated in 1989.

While the entrepreneurship interaction programme has been on since 2018, this was Kejriwal’s first experience, he said.

“We believe the people of our country are very intelligent. We are full of ideas and have a brilliant entrepreneurship mindset. A rickshaw puller is an entrepreneur, so is a betel leaf seller. Every citizen of this country knows how to run a business. But there is some problem with our education system. The moment we graduate from our school, we start looking out for jobs. We want to change this mindset. We want that while being in school, our students should start thinking in a direction where they do not have to find a job after leaving school, rather they should start thinking about their business propositions,” Kejriwal told students during the interaction that was live-streamed on the party’s social media handles.

Deputy chief minister Sisodia at the interaction said, “After the Corona crisis subsides, a variety of new opportunities will arise in the field of entrepreneurship.”