Dehradun, Oct. 22 -- Garhwal Post Bureau

Dehradun, 21 Oct: On a cold morning in Bhimtal, the gentle hum of bees fills the mountain air as Pankaj Pandey carefully lifts a honey-rich wooden frame from his family's beehives. Just a few years ago, this small apiary barely earned enough to support the household. Pankaj, an MBA student at Kumaun University, attended a two-day boot camp under the Devbhoomi Udyamita Yojana (DUY) - an initiative of the Department of Higher Education, Government of Uttarakhand, implemented by the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad. The camp ignited his passion to turn his family's traditional honey harvesting into a value-added, branded enterprise. With the guidance of mentors, he de...