Maxell Foundation boosts 'Make in Maharashtra' to generate employment

Maxell Foundation continues its tradition of recognising the entrepreneurial spirit since 2012

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Investment in education is investment in future and his Government is committed to bring about a revolution in the education system." He said that, "Programs like Maxplore should be taken in colleges across Maharashtra. They have already introduced tablets instead of text books to facilitate interactive learning and enriching the syllabus will be the next logical step."

Maxell foundation's vision is to help create an ecosystem that would encourage the next generation to take full advantage of the 'knowledge based economy', be creative, and build productive assets, for which it has announced a three point agenda.

The agenda outlines:

• Develop the Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship: To begin with, last year Maxell Foundation undertook an introductory program on entrepreneurship called "Maxplore - Exploring Entrepreneurship," in association with the University of Mumbai - Department of Life Long Learning & Extension.

The program helped students to introspect, ideate and implement business ideas. In the first year itself, Maxplore has reached out to 1200 students from 30 colleges across Mumbai. This year, the foundation has tied up with Welingkars' We School and would scale up across the state of Maharashtra. Maxell Foundation has set an ambitious target of reaching out to critical colleges and a minimum of 5000 students across colleges from the rest of Maharashtra including Pune, Nasik, Nagpur, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, and the Konkan region.

• Engaging with Ministry of Education: Maxell Foundation is currently working on a broad syllabus on entrepreneurship that can be part of the text books on entrepreneurship in schools and Colleges. Including entrepreneurship as a part of the curriculum subjects like History, Geography and Science in schools and colleges would be a revolutionary step and first-of-its-kind in India. It would help students to be more creative and participate constructively in building productive assets.

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