Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has announced the Sardar Patel Good Governance CM Fellowship Programme for youths. The youths will be selected on merit in this program for one one-year fellowship for which they shall get Rs. 1 lakh per month. Below 35 years graduates with 60 percent or more results will be given the opportunity.

Fellow youths will get mentoring from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The fellows will be given two weeks of training and two weeks of field training. On completion of the fellowship, the fellows will get a joint certificate from IIMA and the Gujarat government.

PM Poshan Youana, Aspirational District and BLocks, nutrition, enrolment improvement in secondary and higher secondary schools, improving interest in science and maths are some of the areas selected for this program, apart from other projects such as a boost to natural farming, maximum use of Narmada water for irrigation, heritage, wildlife, beach tourism promotion, pollution control, recycling of waste, etc. DeshGujarat