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Large scale legitimizing of Unorganized Sector Knowledge

Would you believe me if I told you that a government in India recognized over 1000 practitioners of various vocations from the unorganized sector as primary educators for a major skill development programme

That they between them organized over 2500 community based skill school and trained over 51,000 village youth in over 75 diverse areas of skill, and a majority of them being women

Shopkeeper or Identity-keeper

Piyush Goyal, the Minister of Commerce & Industry, in the centralization oriented government, used an online social media content, in an event titled as Startup Mahakumbh, to provoke the Indian entrepreneurship startup stakeholders for not doing what the Chinese startups were doing with the words, “do you want to remain local shopkeepers (dukhandaar) or do you want to build international scale bharat ki pehchaan (make a name or identity keeper for bharat) startups choice before us!”.