Entrepreneurs from Mithila holds meeting with Jan Suraaj to plan development strategy
Patna: Recently entrepreneurs from the Mithila region had a meeting with Jan Suraaj on various developmental issues.
The meeting agenda included promoting Bihar as an IT/Software and manufacturing hub, exploring opportunities in pharmacy, education, pharma, and cosmetic industries in Bihar, empowering local youth through skill development and creating employment opportunities, and encouraging MSMEs in Bihar.
Other agenda included role of Incubation centers in nurturing entrepreneurship, awareness programme for farmers on cash crops and medicinal plants at the block level, collaborating with MSME, SIDBI, NABARD, and other Institutions to foster an investor-friendly ecosystem in Bihar, inviting IIT engineers to share their insights on flood control in North Bihar and reviving rural education and promoting integrated farming for mid-size farmers to reverse migration.
The solutions proposed included a addressing the annual flood crisis in the Mithila region, establishing industrial estates to minimize migration and promote agriculture and tourism-based industries, developing AIIMS and IITs to enhance health facilities and education, encouraging IT, food processing, pharma, arts, and entertainment industries in Bihar, and promoting religious tourism in Mithila.
Other solutions proposed included facilitating support for investors and startups in Mithila through collaboration between the banking sector and industry department, exploring employment-based education through the establishment of a Skill University, improving the health system in rural areas and supporting small-scale industries in Bihar.
Among the other solutions included establishing special economic zones, food parks, pharma parks, and IT parks in Mithila, developing tourism in the region including Punauradham on Par with Ayodhya, facilitating startups and funding arrangements and mitigating floods and promoting agro-based industries for economic relief.
Jan Suraj member Renu Paswan informed this saying her organisation’s making efforts to showcase the beautiful Mithila art and support local artists. “We aim to spread awareness and appreciation for Mithila paintings, as well as promote businesses such as Makhana, Lahathi, and Lichi on a global scale,” she said.
