(GIST OF YOJANA) Cultivating Creativity and Enterprise

GIST OF YOJANA : Cultivating Creativity and Enterprise

OCTOBER-2025

Cultivating Creativity and Enterprise

Context:

The world is evolving swiftly with AI, robotics, and machine learning. To prepare our students for the evolving future, it becomes essential that we align our education system with emerging industry demands. The nature of institutions/universities in 2047 is expected to be progressive and dynamic, emphasising the need for innovation. We must equip our students not just with knowledge but with the skills and mindset needed to thrive in the coming age of Industry 5.0—the next evolutionary leap beyond Industry 4.0.

Building Innovation Ecosystems

Aligned with the vision, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is actively encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship at the grassroots level through its initiatives, including Smart India Hackathon, KAPILA— Kalam Program for IP Literacy and Awareness, Institution’s Innovation Councils (IICs), School Innovation Ambassador Training Program (SIATPJ, School Innovation Councils (SICs), AICTE Productisation Fellowship, and the AICTE Industrial Fellowship Program.

Empowering Mentors and Students

Our tremendous success in higher educational institutions prompted us to initiate similar steps even in schools. Our ‘National Policy for Promoting Innovations in Schools’ is a big step in this direction.
This policy focuses on inculcating innovation, entrepreneurial abilities, and problem-solving skills among school students.
The policy guides schools on creating an enabling environment to promote creative ideation and innovation in classrooms, wherein students are encouraged to work on real-world problems. With over 1.5 million schools and 250 million students in our schooling system, we expect to reach out to each and every student in the country.
The School Innovation Ambassador Training Program (SIATP) was jointly launched by the Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSEL), the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC), and CBSE. Through this 72-hour intensive training programme, teachers are trained across five crucial domains:

Design Thinking and Innovation
Idea Generation and Handholding
Entrepreneurship and Prototype/Product Development
Intellectual Property Rights
Finance, Sales, and Human Resource Management

Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship (IDE):

This is another significant initiative worth highlighting. The IDE Bootcamp, launched by AICTE and MIC for Higher Education and by DoSEL in collaboration with MIC for schools, was carefully designed to provide hands-on exposure to both teachers and students in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. Already, it has benefitted 9,692 participants across 48 locations in 21 States/UTs for schools and over 10,000 participants across 46locationsin 23 States/UTs for higher education, creating a ripple effect that is transforming classrooms into hubs of creativity.

Eminent experts from industry, incubation centres, and startups have come forward as mentors, sharing their practical insights and guiding participants in adopting human-centric approaches to problem-solving. The bootcamp equips them with the ability’ to master design thinking tools, build customer-centric solutions, and understand the entrepreneurial journey from idea to market.

Conclusion:

The seeds of innovation we are planting today will bloom into solutions, startups, and enterprises that will shape the destiny of our nation, l.et us all work hand in hand to ensure that by 2047, when India celebrates 100 years of independence, we stand tall as a nation that has not only achieved self-reliance but has also become a global hub of innovation, knowledge, and progress.