Education and Skill Training

Vedanta Jharsuguda’s flagship CSR initiative, the all-women Subhalaxmi Co-operative Society has crossed 4000 membership tally, becoming one of the largest rural women’s co-operative in Odisha. Subhalaxmi Co-op is engaged in promoting sustainable livelihood opportunities among rural women, creating avenues for entrepreneurship through skill development and providing financial assistance to the members for furthering their livelihood. Through...

Over 12 million students migrate domestically for higher education every year. Increased internet penetration leading to growing awareness, rising aspirations and socio-cultural evolution is driving greater student migration, creating the need for modern, amenity-rich living options for students in key educational hubs. Today, as we begin Unlock 4.0 in the midst of an ongoing...

“How would you feel if you stepped out of blinding darkness into the light? That is what the gift of literacy does to you,” says 46-year-old Asha Devi residing in Narayanpur, Rajasthan. As a young girl, she did not pay much heed to her parents' efforts to send her to the local school. However,...

Digital transformation expert Adosphere has announced the successful execution of a community and collaboration building project for training and curriculum support for over 1.2 lakh teachers. Teachers Day 2020 marked one year of the CSR project, which has facilitated online collaboration and training for teachers across Gujarat, helping local students continue their studies despite...

The new National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) has called for a complete overhaul of the archaic rote learning system Indian students were saddled with. Higher education will get more autonomy and schooling will be multi-stream. Perhaps the most fundamental change at the government level is the renaming of the Ministry of Human Resource and...

Farming is not an easy vocation. Apart from backbreaking work, it involves a lot of life-threatening risks. Even after those risks, the results are never certain, for the yield of agriculture heavily relies upon the weather and environmental conditions, which can never be predicted. For example, recently excessive rainfall in the Kutch region of...

Education has moved online in the wake of COVID-19. Schools and colleges were left with no choice during the lockdown but to switch to digital education. There is no certainty when schools will reopen and student lives will go back to normal. With no end in sight to the pandemic, it seems like online...

Edelweiss Group recently announced a public service and awareness initiative, #HelpYourHelp, a platform that helps build awareness and facilitates change for the domestic help community, who have been impacted by COVID-19. Olympic athletes such as Dipa Karmakar, Hima Das, Rani Rampal have taken the #HelpYourHelp pledge and encouraged others to follow suit. Battling loss of income...

American Express has instituted annual scholarships for economically-disadvantaged and meritorious students, including ‘Ambition Awards’ for deserving women students at IIT Madras, as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR). Scholarships being awarded as part of the grant to IIT Madras from American Express include: 1) American Express Ambition Scholarship for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology...

The COVID-19 pandemic and following lockdown brought about a major change in the working of education systems in India. With schools having to shut down to contain the spread of the virus, the education system overnight had to shift to an online model. While India has the largest number of smartphone users in the...

India has more than 50 per cent of its population under the age of 25. This young populace of the country has no dearth of talent, energy and enthusiasm to work hard. However, often they are unable to do so because of incomplete education or lack of formal training caused due to lack of...

Pune-based St. Mira’s College for Girls (BBA Department) in association with Prayaas Corps organized a webinar for students on 25th August to enlighten them about the financial management of an NGO during the pandemic. Rekha Kankariya, Assistant Professor and Exam Officer in the college, organized this webinar in association with Team Prayaas Corps and TYBBA...