{"id":262971,"date":"2025-04-24T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=262971"},"modified":"2025-04-24T01:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:50:44","slug":"wangsu-stresses-importance-of-rural-entrepreneurship-in-strengthening-states-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/wangsu-stresses-importance-of-rural-entrepreneurship-in-strengthening-states-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wangsu stresses importance of rural entrepreneurship in strengthening state&#8217;s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RGU&#8217;s Rural Business Incubation Centre<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, 23 Apr:\u00a0<\/strong> Agriculture minister Gabriel Denwang Wangsu emphasized the importance of rural entrepreneurship in strengthening the state&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inaugurating the Rural Business Incubation Centre (RuBIC) at Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Wednesday, Wangsu said that &#8220;the centre (RuBIC) is not just a building, but a beacon of opportunity and innovation for our rural communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wangsu reaffirmed the state government&#8217;s commitment to supporting such initiatives and ensuring that rural entrepreneurship becomes a cornerstone of Arunachal Pradesh&#8217;s development strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damodar Mishra, GM\/OIC, NABARD, Arunachal Pradesh regional office, stated that &#8220;this is an initiative in the process of enterprise development in addition to the other initiatives of NABARD, like market outlets, skill development, GI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU&#8217;s acting vice-chancellor prof S.K Nayak highlighted the university&#8217;s genesis and its transformation towards incubation for rural livelihood development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU registrar Dr. N.T Rikam, finance officer prof. Otem Padung and FASc Dean (i\/c) Dr. Sandeep Janghu\u00a0 highlighted the potentials of the RuBIC for\u00a0 transformation of agriculture, horticulture and allied sectors for sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nodal officer &amp; programme coordinator of the center Dr. Arindam Barman, said, &#8220;This centre is a dream turned into reality. We are committed to nurturing grassroots talent and creating a vibrant rural startup ecosystem to achieve the goal in fostering AtmaNirbhar Arunachal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newly established RuBIC aims to serve as a catalyst for rural innovation by providing aspiring entrepreneurs with access to infrastructure, mentorship, financial linkages, and capacity-building programmes etc. The initiative is expected to play a vital role in promoting sustainable livelihood opportunities, particularly for youth and women in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RuBIC stands as a testament to the collaborative efforts of the RGU, NABARD, government, academia, and community in empowering rural Arunachal through innovation and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RGU&#8217;s Rural Business Incubation Centre RONO HILLS, 23 Apr:\u00a0 Agriculture minister Gabriel Denwang Wangsu emphasized the importance of rural entrepreneurship in strengthening the state&#8217;s economy. Inaugurating the Rural Business Incubation Centre (RuBIC) at Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Wednesday, Wangsu said that &#8220;the centre (RuBIC) is not just a building, but a beacon of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}