Odisha: Pradhan launches business mentoring initiative focused on MSMEs

bhubaneswar: union education minister dharmendra pradhan launched a business mentoring initiative by a public sector bank in collaboration with an education company specialising in simplified entrepreneurship courses, officials said.'uco empower', the initiative by kolkata-based uco bank in association with ‘poornatha', was unveiled by pradhan at dhenkanal on saturday.“in line with our country's aspiration of achieving a usd 5-trillion economy, we felt that emphasis should be on the msme sector and empowering it. ‘uco empower' seeks to focus on this critical sector,” said ashwani kumar, md & ceo of uco bank.suresh, co-founder of poornatha said: "we aim to equip every msme entrepreneur with the head-start required for business success.”