Education and Skill Training

As part of our #LetsTalkCSR series doing a deep dive into social initiatives by top corporates, let's explore the CSR of ITC. The Group headquartered in Kolkata sits proudly on our list of top companies for CSR in 2020. Another report by Goodera ranked ITC Limited as the 7th largest spender on Corporate Social Responsibility...

IIFL Foundation, the CSR arm of financial services group IIFL, runs one of India’s largest girl child education programmes – Sakhiyon Ki Baadi (SKB). Spread across 1200 remote schools in Rajasthan, SKB has been able leverage the digital medium to impart seamless education to over 36,000 girls during the pandemic. SKB schools are dedicated to...

Starting with 1970, this April 22 marks the 51st Earth Day aptly themed ‘Restore our Earth’. Today, in the wake of the global pandemic, as countries and communities around the world come together to rebuild their economies, it is more important than ever before to focus on a ‘green and sustainable recovery’. The ‘people’...

DXC Technology announced a CSR collaboration with ICT Academy, a not-for-profit initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the state Governments and Industries, to train 7,500 rural schoolteachers on digital teaching skills and 10,000 graduating women students on advanced IT skills. The Rural Teachers Empowerment Program will equip 7,500 schoolteachers with digital training...

Forty four meritorious needy students in Goa will now be able to pursue higher professional studies through the Vedanta Utkarsh Scholarship programme. The scholarship was awarded to the selected scholarship candidates, at the hands of Dr. Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister of Goa. The Goa Chief Minister commended Vedanta's CSR programmes and urged students to take...

Samsung India has announced that it is adding smart classes to 80 new Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools as part of its global Samsung Smart School CSR initiative, providing digital education to less-privileged students and fulfilling its vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia by empowering the next generation of young India. With this addition, smart classes set up...

Tejas, a teacher training project delivered by the British Council in association with Tata Trusts and the Maharashtra State Government, has upskilled 51,000 teachers across 36 districts in Maharashtra, who in turn, teach 1.4 million young students in the state schools. The project set out to benefit primary school teachers and students across government schools...

Continuing on the path of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) journey, auto components manufacturer Sona Comstar inaugurated a smart classroom comprising a 75-inch smart TV with a pre-installed interactive panel, wall paint with modern furniture and RO system with a water cooler for students and school staff. More than 1000 students enrolled in classes starting...

Dow India recently inaugurated a science centre with mini-innovation hub at an educational premise of Jijamata Shikshan Prasarak Mandal in Lote, Ratnagiri district. The objective is to increase science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) literacy and prepare tomorrow’s workforce to develop innovative solutions. This STEM centre will enable students to learn the process of design...

COVID- 19 has disrupted every aspect of our lives, and while we are gradually returning to normalcy, the social and economic integration of youths has been an ongoing challenge. The pandemic had rapidly translated into an economic crisis; it has been particularly hard on youths in lower-income countries.  As per the recent study known...

FUEL will conduct future skills initiatives with various CSR partners in the coming days in Hyderabad. FUEL has trained 600 students in banking and finance courses (BFSI) and 600 in future skills courses like Artificial Intelligence and Digital Marketing. To support the students to get the job after getting trained, FUEL has organized a...

Vedanta Aluminium & Power Business is fostering hundreds of MSMEs in remote rural areas with its ‘waste to wealth’ programmes. Waste to wealth projects form a key pillar of Vedanta’s sustainability agenda that is centred around ‘Zero Harm, Zero Waste and Zero Discharge’. With a world-class alumina refinery at Lanjigarh (Odisha) and aluminium smelters at...