UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the state government has decided to link 60,000 village panchyats with the STARTUP- the flagship scheme of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for creating jobs in self employed sector. Chief Minister said in next six month all the 60,000 village panchyats will be linked with optical fiber network which will provide high speed internet connectivity.
Inaugurating the STARTUP Master class at the Indian institute of Technology Kanpur on Saturday chief minister said every village panchyat has some unique identity and the rural youth needs to be apprised of that so that they could start their enterprise in the villages. Chief Minister addressed the two day long Master class organized by the Alumni association of the IIT Kanpur, entrepreneurship cell of the IIT and the UP government.
Expressing concern over the migration of the rural youth to urban areas seeking employment, chief minister in each of the 75 districts of the state one youth will be appointed in each district for Startup promotion. Chief minister said UP is the largest state of the country on account of the size of its population and to prevent their migration they need to be linked with the Startup scheme.
Rs Rs The destiny of the state can be transformed with the implementation of the STARTUP scheme. The technology cuts both ways, it can make or mar both. If the technology is in the hands of dictators like Kim Jong of North Korea then it will cause only destruction and if the same is used by the prime minister Narendra Modi then it will change the destiny of the nation’’, said the chief minister. Yogi Adityanath said in next six all the 60,000 gran panchyats will be linked with the optical fiber network.
Rs Rs The youth are full of energy and ideas and they want to work and give shape to their innovative ideas and if they get enabling environment they can take their startup enterprise to the logical conclusions. With this objective the government is working on the project to link the 60,000 village panchyats with high optical fiber network to provide then the facility of the high speed internet’’, said the chief minister.
Later in the presence of the chief minister an MOU was signed between the IIT Kanpur and APJ Kalam technical university Lucknow. The MOU concerns the activities in teaching, content creation, research and development in the field of mutual interest. The MOU includes collaboration where IIT Kanpur will provide online curriculum based education and technical training through online courses for students of AKTU.
As per the MOU , the AKTU and IIT Kanpur will jointly initiate activities around identified domains for uplift of higher technical education in UP. Each institution shall appoint one member of its staff to coordinate the programme on its behalf. Further a coordination committee consisting of programme coordination and two members each from the institutes shall periodically review and identify ways to strengthen cooperation between the two institutions. The MOU will remain in effect for the next three years and it may be renewed with the consent of both the institutions.