ICFRE, NIESBUD sign MoU to enhance Entrepreneurship Skills, Education in India

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Introduction

 

The Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME) on Thursday said that a bilateral agreement was signed between Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) and National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) to enhance the entrepreneurship skills and education in the country.

 

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Dr SC Gairola, Director General of ICFRE and Rajesh Aggarwal, Director General of NIESBUD.

 

New opportunities for self-employment

 

During the meeting, Gairola stressed that the Council is organizing forestry research and related employment generation oriented skill development programmes in various centers of the ICFRE institutes located throughout the country.

 

Adding that NIESBUD and ICFRE will work jointly to enhance the entrepreneurship skill up-gradation of trainees, he said: "By this, the new industries will be developed in near future and the new opportunities for self-employment will be generated . In the past, the joint entrepreneurship based skill development programmes were also organized with NIESBUD resulting in this MoU."

 

Meanwhile, Rajesh Aggarwal said, "NIESBUD is working for the entrepreneurship development through research and training. The Institute is organizing various programmes throughout the country in-order to motivate the youths for self-employment ."

 

 

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India Today, 16 November 2019