UP to engage IIM Lucknow as 'knowledge partner' for creating jobs

Last year, the Institute had trained senior UP ministers, bureaucrats

Against the backdrop of the Covid-19-induced slowdown in industrial and services sectors, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to partner Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow for bolstering self-employment opportunities for the educated youth in the state.

The premier institute will be roped in as a ‘knowledge partner’ of the state government for conducting analytical studies and offering knowledge-based inputs on bankable projects, feasibility studies and creating prototype models of self-employment projects.

These job-oriented studies and projects will be undertaken under the government’s flagship Chief Minister Yuva Entrepreneurship Development Programme (CM Yuva).

Presiding over a review meeting here yesterday, UP