Action Plan on ‘Start-up India’ on Jan 16: PM says in Mann ki Baat
28 Dec 2015 7:03 AM IST
Seeking to boost entrepreneurship at the grassroots level, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Action Plan of the ‘Start-up India, Stand-up India’ will be unveiled on January 16 and urged the states to help spread this campaign across the country’s nook and corner.
Modi, who had made the announcement about the campaign in his last Independence Day address, said the programme will be designed to suit Indian conditions and focus would be on ensuring benefits for the youth from the lowest strata of the society.
“My dear young friends, in my August 15 address from the Red Fort, I had made preliminary mention about ‘Start-up India, Stand-up India’. After that, this spread to all the departments of the government.
“Can India be a ‘Start-up Capital’? Can the youth in the states have the opportunities in the form of start-ups, with innovations, whether it be manufacturing, service sector or agriculture? In everything, there should be freshness, new ways, new thinking. The world cannot move ahead without innovation,” he said in his monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio programme, the last one for this year.
He said the ‘Start-up India, Stand-up India’ campaign has brought new opportunities for the youth.
“On January 16, the government of India will unveil the full Action Plan of Start-up India, Stand-up India... A structure will be presented before you. This programme will be connected to the country’s IITs, IIMs, central universities and NITs. Wherever there are youth, they will be linked through ‘live connectivity,” the Prime Minister said.
The programme is aimed at promoting bank financing for start-up ventures and offer incentives to boost entrepreneurship and job creation.
Giving an idea, he said if some youth develops something through innovation to make a poor labourer’s life comfortable, he would ask banks to help such people.
The Prime Minister said it was wrong to assume that the assets of knowledge are confined to some cities only and added that youth with capabilities are spread all over the country.
Mason gets PM’s praise for building toilets for free
While the country was listening to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words praising him today, 65-year-old Dileep Singh Malviya, a mason living in a village nearly eight hundred kilometers from the national capital, was busy in his mission of building toilets.
In his ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio address, the Prime Minister on Sunday said Dileep has made 100 toilets without charging any money in his Bhojpura village and people like him were the real strength of the country.
“Most of the houses in my village did not have a toilet. Women and children especially faced a very hard time because of this. Diseases were spreading. So I took it upon myself to convince every family that they should build a toilet,” Dileep said here.
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