India, Nov. 19 -- A quiet transformation is taking root in Punjab's classrooms. For years, we told our children to study hard and get a job. Today, we are preparing them to create jobs.

The change is driven by necessity and vision. Over the past few years, the shift in aspiration became too significant to ignore. Government vacancies shrank, private jobs often proved unstable or underpaid, and thousands of graduates emerged every year - qualified, yet unemployable. Meanwhile, industries evolved faster than our classrooms, widening the gap between learning and livelihoods. Sensing this disconnect, and the entrepreneurial spark in Punjab's youth, the government began to recalibrate its role from merely providing employment to enabling empl...