No.201/2020-2021  

Aizawl, the 11^th August 2020 : Pu Lalchhandama Ralte, Minister, Labour, Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship today released the findings of  ‘Mapping of General Enterprising Tendency Among Mizo Youth’ conducted by Entrepreneurship Development Centre, Planning & Programme Implementation Department in collaboration with Mizoram University Incubation Centre at a function held at the Conference Hall of Planning & Programme Implementation Department.

Speaking on the occasion, Pu Lalchhandama Ralte who also holds the School Education portfolio remarked that the findings of the mapping exercise will be very useful in the context of the newly announced National Education Policy where co-curricular activities and life skills are emphasized in the teaching learning process. He pointed that entrepreneurship is a strong driver of economic growth and opined that entrepreneurship, specially the development of creative thinking must be introduced to children in the formative years of their learning curve.

Dr. C. Vanlalramsanga, Secretary, Planning & Programme Implementation Department who chaired the function mentioned that such similar mapping exercise had hardly been taken up by other states and the scores of the youth of Mizoram compared  to scores of the youths of some countries who have done such mapping is encouraging.

The mapping exercise was undertaken by academics of Mizoram University Dr. Laldinliana Varte who heads the Incubation Centre at the University and Research Associate KC Malsawmtluangi who presented their findings. A discussion by officials of stakeholders Departments – School Education, SCERT, Higher & Technical Education and Labour, Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship followed where they presented their views.

The sample size of the mapping exercise took 2255 students from higher secondary schools and colleges from science, arts and commerce across the state as respondents and calculated the mean enterprising tendency score as 30.37, with male students scoring slightly higher than female students. The study found that science students had a higher score compared to arts and commerce students and higher secondary students scored higher than college students.