Education and Skill Training

With an aim to uplift the tribal community and instill the idea of entrepreneurship, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) in association with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs has started their ‘Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Programme (TEDP), with a target to identify at least 350 tribal artists and help them expand...

Samsung will offer 150 fresh scholarships to Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students starting a full-term course in an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) or a National Institute of Technology (NIT) for academic year 2020-21, under the 5th edition of its Star Scholar programme. Each year Samsung offers scholarships to outstanding students from JNVs who pursue full...

Amway India launched Saksham, a new app for the visually impaired individuals in association with its NGO partner Saksham on the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Saksham app will work as a one-stop solution for the visually impaired individuals as it provides them with all relevant information using talk back and voiceover...

In an initiative to make the Indian Startup Ecosystem more inclusive, Sardar Patel Technology Business Incubator (SPTBI) in collaboration with social platform LoveActually.Me and Adfactors PR, has launched India’s first incubator programme for differently abled people wanting to pursue entrepreneurship. The programme comes at the time of celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities...

Committed towards the socio-economic development of communities, AkzoNobel has partnered with Faridabad Observation Home for young offenders to provide formal training in decorative painting to its 60 number of inmates. The objective of the project is to equip the youth with vocational skills making them job ready as painters once they make their way...

NASSCOM Foundation and Microsoft India in partnership with the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Department of Science & Technology (DST), and ERNET today announced the winners of ‘Innovate for an Accessible India‘ (IAI). The announcement was made in the run up to World Disability Day tomorrow. IAI is a pan India initiative that...

With a vision to provide uninterrupted online learning to millions of students across the country, The Catalyst Group is driving a unique initiative under the CSR campaign #AbHarStudentPadhega, to provide free of cost education for the underprivileged. #AbHarStudentPadhega is a programme under which several CSR initiatives are launched from time to time in order to...

Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 has begun with its special karamveer episodes that brings forth changemakers and fighters who make a difference in real life. The quiz show’s latest episode featured Dr. Jitender Aggarwal & Dr. Suman Aggarwal from Sarthak Educational Trust which has trained and placed 20,000 divyangs so far across the country through the...

We are standing at a crossroads both economically and ecologically speaking. As we stand at this juncture it’s clear as day that we can no longer go on with business as usual. Now, more than ever, we need to come together to collaborate, to divulge power from few countries and a few businesses to...

Tata Starbucks has announced the Tata Starbucks Empowering Girls and Young Women programme, a new CSR initiative to support girls and young women in India through education, skills development and economic empowerment. As part of Tata Starbucks ongoing commitment to creating equal opportunities, the programme will provide girls and young women with the education, financial...

The Samvaad Fellowship provides critical gap funding and also works towards facilitating platforms at national and international levels for providing enhanced inputs to the fellows. This year, the Fellowships were awarded to: 1. Deepa Pawar from the Gadiya Lohar tribe for the project on Documentation of Traditional Art of Iron Weapons and Tool Making of...

At a time when the entire world is battling against the coronavirus pandemic, police personnel are working round the clock to keep us safe. In a bid to honour and salute the commitment of the frontline warriors, Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil University (ADYPU) has come up with a CSR initiative to offer a scholarship programme...