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Chandigarh: In a significant push to nurture innovation, self-reliance and job creation among the youth, the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) has finalised the Entrepreneurship curriculum for Class 12, completing a structured two-year entrepreneurship education pathway in the state’s school system. The initiative will benefit over 5.60 lakh students across Punjab, Education Minister  Harjot Singh Bains announced on Wednesday.

The Class 12 curriculum builds on the highly successful Business Blaster Programme, introduced for Class 11 students in the 2022–23 academic session. Applauding the PSEB for its proactive approach, the Education Minister said that the board has shown exceptional commitment to institutionalising entrepreneurship education at the senior secondary level.

Entrepreneurship has now been made a compulsory subject in 3,692 government and recognised senior secondary schools across the state. To ensure effective implementation, the board has already trained 10,382 teachers and 231 master trainers through 104 specialised training programmes, ensuring that classrooms are equipped with well-prepared mentors.

With the Class 12 curriculum framework and textbooks ready well ahead of schedule, the transition from Class 11 to Class 12 will be seamless for students from the 2026–27 academic session onward, without any disruption in learning. Around 5.60 lakh students will now study Entrepreneurship as part of their formal board education.

The minister explained that the new curriculum is practical, skill-oriented and future-ready, designed to help students transform ideas into viable business ventures. It includes training on:

• Startup ideation and execution

• Legal and regulatory procedures

• Financial planning, budgeting and funding

• Market assessment and risk management

• Problem-solving and leadership skills

“This initiative will prepare Punjab’s youth to become not just job seekers, but job providers and economic drivers of tomorrow,”  Bains said. He added that the programme fulfils a key promise of the Chief Minister  Bhagwant Singh Mann-led Punjab Government to equip students studying in government and recognised schools with the mindset and practical skills for self-employment, startups and entrepreneurship.

By embedding entrepreneurship into mainstream education, the government aims to create a new generation of confident, innovative and self-reliant youth, capable of contributing meaningfully to Punjab’s economic transformation. The Education Minister further said that the initiative aligns with the state’s long-term vision of promoting startup culture, innovation ecosystems and grassroots enterprise development, positioning Punjab as a hub of youth-led economic growth in the coming years.