Cultivate entrepreneurship skills from school level: Kalam

Hyderabad, Jun 29 (UNI) President A P J Abdul Kalam today stressed the need to inculcate on aptitude for entrepreneurship among children through the educational environment, both in schools and colleges.

Participating in the centenary celebrations of Vivek Vardhini Education Society here, he said the educational system should highlight the importance of entrepreneurship and prepare the students to get oriented towards setting up enterprises, which would provide them creativity, freedom and ability to generate wealth.

Stating that certain capacities were required to be developed in the students to deal with the real world, particularly to grow in their professional career and participate in national development, Dr Kalam said the capacities for research or inquiry, creativity and innovation, using high technology, entrepreneurial leadership and moral leadership should be cultivated among the students.

The banking system should provide venture capital right from village level to prospective entrepreneurs for undertaking new enterprises, he said, adding that banks have to be proactive in supporting innovative products for enabling wealth generation by young entrepreneurs by setting aside conventional tangible asset syndrome.

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