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Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday talked about “revolutionising” the city by focusing on “job creators” rather than job creation, and aiming to boost economic growth. He said the city government was at the primary stage of devising a plan to set up “an innovation university”, for imparting education on professional skills. Sisodia, also in charge of the education ministry in the city government, stressed the need to make Delhi a “knowledge hub” and assured the government would be “industry friendly”.
“The youth wants some space for innovative thinking and we need to create such avenues. One plan is to set up incubation centres in institutions like the Indian Institute of Technology. We don’t have to create jobs but focus on job creators. If I invest energy here, it will have a chain effect,” Sisodia said, at a function organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry.
Adding: “We need to make Delhi a knowledge hub. We need to work on the innovation space and promoting skill.” He also noted the poor state of government-run schools.
The education department has been directed, he said, to formulate a database of the 100,000-odd students who graduated from schools last year.
On rising concern regarding the level of air pollution in the city, Sisodia said the government might have to take “hard” and “unpopular” decisions for clean air.
