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Centres

National Education Policy – 2020 Implementation Temple Based Economy

The centre aims to entrepreneuralize the mindset of students in Higher Education Institutes The Centre will assess the growth potential for selected temple economies and formulate
(HEIs) and place them on the path of the entrepreneurship; promote entrepreneurship among strategy and action plan for harnessing such potential. It will seek to promote economic growth
students pursuing skill-based and/or vocation-based programmes and institutionalize by catalyzing new enterprises, expanding existing enterprises, promoting employment, skill
entrepreneurship education in the HEIs. development and such related tasks to ensure sustainable development of temple towns. The
Centre will also emphasize on upgrading temple administrative mechanisms.

Primary Activities
· Develop of a Robust Module on Entrepreneurship for HEI Students. Primary Activities
· Undertake Entrepreneurship Promotion among Skill/Vocation – Programme Students. · Undertake studies addressed at both integrated development as well as specific aspect
development of selected temple towns in India.
· Contextualize Entrepreneurship Education to Domain-specific Programmes, with
domains including; science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), humanities, · Gather baseline data in respect of selected temple towns.
business and art. · Become a repository of knowledge products on temple towns in India.

Institutionalize Entrepreneurship Development Work Within HEIs by building a dynamic · Showcase the economic and cultural impact of the temple towns.
pool of faculty-resource persons. · Undertake Capacity Building of the stakeholders in the temple town.

· Assisting the temple towns through project management services to launch a range of
projects meant to accelerate growth and development.

October 8, 2023: Hon'ble Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla, inaugurated the Centre for Implementa on of November 20, 2025: A Vision Document on Centre for Temple-Based Economy was also released by (4th from R) Dr. Hari Babu
Na onal Educa on Policy- 2020. The Center guides educa onal establishments on implemen ng NEP 2020 for incorpora ng Kambhampa , Hon'ble Governor of Odisha. Also present were (3rd from L) Shri Arjun Modhwadia, Hon'ble Minister, Forests and
inclusive and holis c educa on approaches. Environment, Climate Change, Science and Technology, Gujarat; (2nd from L) Dr. Neerja A. Gupta, Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat
University; (2nd from R) Shri Uday Mahurkar, Noted Author & Former Central Informa on Commissioner, Govt. of India; (3rd from R)
Dr. Sunil Shukla, Director General, EDII; (Right) Shri Saurabh Pandey, Founding Director, India Think Council and (Le ) Dr. Satya Ranjan
Acharya, Professor & Director - Department of Entrepreneurship Educa on, EDII.

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