Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh has said that Rural Entrepreneurship Development Scheme launched in 2015 will be effective from 2016-17. It is a new programme to impart opportunities for attaining experience as well as entrepreneurship skills on part of agriculture graduates, he underlined.
Under this scheme, the agriculture graduation students will be granted scholarship at the rate of Rs. 3000 per month. Singh was speaking at Mahatma Phule Agriculture Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahamednagar, Maharahstra.
Member of Parliament, Ahamednagar, Dilip Kumar Gandhi, and the Member of Parliament, Shirdi, Sadashiv Kisan Lokhande were also present.
Singh said that the objective of pilot studies is to augment knowledge as well as skill as per the requirements of private sector. It also aims at to create belief and competency amongst undergraduate students so as to initiate their own enterprise.
The Minister observed that it will trigger helping the students for practicable knowledge as well as skill orientation which will be very much conducive to provide quality entrepreneurship for augmenting strength of agriculture graduates.