UpGrad Joins Startup India Program as the Education Partner

Online higher education platform UpGrad has been announced as the official education partner Centre’s ‘Start-up India’ learning programme. Co-founded by Ronnie Screwvala, the startup will now offer a four-week programme aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs looking to take the plunge. The program will train them with the objective of exposing to possible challenges in their entrepreneurial journey and also to educate on the key steps required in building a startup.

The goal set up by Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the DIPP Secretary R Abhishek is to benefit 1 lakh entrepreneurs from this platform in the first year and over the period of next 2-3 years support the ecosystem of over 1 million new entrepreneurs, Upgrad said in a press statement.

Upgrad aims to be a significant facilitator for first generation entrepreneurs to contribute 25 percent of the 200 million jobs that India will be required to create in the next 5-10 years. To ensure this initiative has impact beyond the metros, along with the initial launch in English and Hindi, the programme will be launched in multiple vernacular languages like Telugu, Tamil, and Marathi, the release further added