Entrepreneurship Development Programme for twenty-one days concluded on 1st March at Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development institute, Leh (J&K EDI). A total of 47 candidates successfully completed their training. 

Deputy Commissioner, Leh Prasanna Ramaswamy G was the chief guest of the occasion. District Agriculture Officer, Sonam Angchok and Vice President J&K Bank, Shareesh Sharma was also present.

An interactive session was carried out with Prasanna Ramaswamy G. He said that instead of looking out for government job only the youths of today should be encouraged to take entrepreneurship as a career option.

According to the data of J&K, a total of 109 youths has started their business under this scheme till now.  "The detail project report of these students is in progress and we are putting every effort to disperse the loan to the candidates in March itself. In Leh district, there is a total of 250 cases out of which 109 are disbursed, 40 cases are withdrawn because of many reasons like, unable to clear the title, few got jobs etc, 35 cases will be sanctioned in this march. Thus, we have zero pendency," said Dorjay Wangchuk, Executive Manager, JKEDI Ladakh Division.

Sharing the experiences and benefits of the training, Rinchen Dolma said, “ initially there was some fear in starting a business, after joining this training there were lots of changes in my thinking. I am more confident. The only thing needed is the ideation and an objective to achieve it and financially the government will support. I am going into the retail industry because I have knowledge about the designing, merchandising and it’s my hobbies.” 

Stanzin Zasal, “I have applied for seed capital funding and my project is on Pashmina. Reason to take up this project further is because there is a lot of scope and I feel that this can help to generate employment for few more people.  I am aiming to make my product organic, with a traditional touch and best in quality wise.” 

A power presentation was presented highlighting the various schemes under JKEDI in Leh.

JKEDI has been established by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir in March 1997 to effectively enable entrepreneurship development in the state.