Yukti Dahiya, a Class 12 student at Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, is developing initiatives to improve career awareness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship education. She founded Project Pathways in 2024 to provide career guidance and mentorship to students from underserved communities. In early 2025, she introduced RISE (Rural Incubation & Startup Enablement) to support women entrepreneurs in rural areas.
Project Pathways aims to bridge the gap in access to career counseling, mentorship and reliable information about educational and professional opportunities. The initiative conducts workshops, counseling sessions, mentorship programs and skill development activities across schools and coaching institutes, helping students recognize their strengths and explore suitable career options.
According to information shared about the initiative, Project Pathways has mentored more than 500 students so far. Through these efforts, the program seeks to equip young people with the knowledge and guidance needed to make informed decisions about their education and future careers.
Key Highlights:
- Project Pathways has mentored over 500 students through career guidance
- RISE has trained 1,000+ entrepreneurs and supported 75+ women-led ventures
- Yukti leads ArthEdge and has earned national and international academic awards
RISE is dedicated to developing business concepts in women into a viable business. It is a three-phase program that covers entrepreneurship education, mentorship, seed funding and potential investors.
As per the information provided, the initiative has trained over 1000 aspiring entrepreneurs and successfully incubated more than 75 women entrepreneurs. It also has over 100 mentors comprising business founders, investors, chartered accountants, lawyers and industry professionals to assist them.
RISE helps the participating entrepreneurs by providing them with demo day support, seed micro grants, branding advice, e-commerce, digital payments, and retail partnerships. The activities are designed to build business skills and network opportunities for women that can help their businesses.
In addition to these efforts, Yukti leads ArthEdge, a youth-driven financial literacy program that provides practical, interactive financial learning and entrepreneurship through community outreach.
She has academic research interests in areas of educational inequality and financial literacy/decision making. She has worked with professors from Indian School of Business and Harvard University for research.
Yukti is also a recipient of goodwill awards in academic events. She has won All India Rank 6 in International Economics Olympiad and National Rank 3 in the National Economics Olympiad. In mathematics she became a member of the AMC Honor Roll, a group of students who are among the top five per cent on the planet.
Her writing won her the Gold Award in the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition. According to the information, she was also nominated for the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar and was awarded the National Humanitarian Excellence Award.
Yukti's work is experienced through RISE and ArthEdge, including in the fields of student career guidance, entrepreneurship development and financial literacy. The programs focus on various areas of access to information, mentorship and resources, especially for students and aspiring entrepreneurs in under-resourced areas.
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