Today’s youth should come out of the mentality of getting Government job. They should adopt entrepreneurship skills; the Government has started Stand Up India, Start Up India, Skill development programme and MSME policy to encourage entrepreneurship skills in the youth. The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat made these comments while addressing students at DBS College on the occasion of 121 birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose here on Tuesday. Paying glowing tributes to Bose, the CM said that he is still relevant today. Exhorting the students to play their roles in the fight against corruption, the CM said that they should adopt the path of truth. He added that the downtrodden sections of the society are worst affected by the corruption. Highlighting his policy of zero tolerance on corruption Rawat said that his Government has sent 14 persons to jail in corruption cases. He asked the students to participate actively in politics as it will get cleansed only when good people enter it. Terming the recent threats of committing suicide by 11 persons as cowardly, he said that supporting such people under political compulsion is very deplorable act. The CM also asked the students that whether the state government should provide financial help to the family of those who have committed suicide. In reply the students said that no such help should be given.
In the programme the CM felicitated M K Singh, a Sepoy of Azad Hind Fauj of Netaji.
In his address the state minister for higher education and cooperative Dhan Singh Rawat said that the state government has decided to celebrate the anniversaries of great leaders in colleges. He said that more than three lakh students have participated in blood donation in the state which is a record. Dhan Singh said that more than 10 lakh students would make a human chain in the state and take pledge against corruption. He said that by book donation campaign the state government would provide books to all government colleges. The Higher education minister claimed that the state would soon become the first state in the country where all the colleges will have 100 percent permanent Principals and assistant Professors. On research and development the minister said that the state government would provide financial help to 100 such students whose income of parents is less than three lakh per year to undertake research. The programme was attended by MLA Suresh Rathore, Manager of DAV Trust A K Narang, principal of DBS PG College, OP Kulshrestha and others.