Education and Skill Training

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...

Lisa Heydlauff came from the UK two decades ago and fell so in love with India that she decided to stay back. Since then, the multi-award-winning educator has spent many years innovating tools for young Indians, whether it’s offline through graphic novels in 1,000 government secondary schools in Bihar, or online through the newly...

The need to move towards digitalisation has never felt more urgent than in the present times. The pandemic ensued lockdown across the country has dealt a major blow to learning and education of the children. With the intent of containing the spread of the virus among the young children who are among the vulnerable population...

“Tourism sector will start opening up and slowly recover from the crisis, as India is a preferred destination among tourists. Once the economy opens up further, we will soon move forward from survival to revival,” said Prahlad Singh Patel, Minister of State for Tourism and Culture. He was speaking at the signing of MoU of...

Atmanirbhar Bharat is the PM's vision of making India a self-reliant nation. This mission is not restricted to the 5 key pillars Economy, Infrastructure, Technology-driven system, Vibrant demography and Demand. What also plays a major role here is the growth of an individual. The progress of the youth especially those who are underserved but nevertheless...

Collaboration at the regional level is a critical force for scaling up effective technologies and increasing innovation capacity in the fight against COVID-19, according to high-level officials and key stakeholders at the third session of the Committee on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Science, Technology and Innovation. Convened by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia...

UST Global, a digital transformation solutions company, has won the Project Management Institute Kerala (PMIK)’s PMI Kerala Community Project of the Year Award for 2020 for its Adopt a School CSR initiative. The Adopt a School programme currently provides support to over 6500 children of 30 Government schools spread across Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, and other...

Welspun Foundation for Health & Knowledge is the CSR arm of Welspun Group. It has launched a home learning initiative ‘Karona Thodi Masti, Thodi Padhai’ in order to provide continuous education for government school students in Anjar, Valsad and Bharuch, during the pandemic. The company has already enabled education for 7500 students across 30 government...

Mphasis, an Information Technology solutions provider specialising in cloud and cognitive services, is coming together with Ashoka University to set up a laboratory for machine learning and computational thinking, through a grant of INR 10 crore that Mphasis F1 Foundation, the CSR arm of the company. The Mphasis Laboratory for Machine Learning and Computational Thinking...

NMDC is India's largest iron ore public sector enterprise. It has been one of the biggest CSR spenders among CPSEs, with a spend of Rs. 199.99 crores in 2019-20. Being a responsible Corporate Citizen, the Company (which stands for National Mineral Development Corporation), made a large donation of Rs. 155 crores for COVID-19 relief...

Mi India along with its network of Distributors and Retail Partners announced to pledge 2500 brand new smartphones worth Rs. 2 Crores to children from communities that are worst affected by the pandemic. The company’s 2500 plus strong exclusive retail network will come together to donate these 2500 smartphones under this CSR initiative. Celebrating 5...

Only a day ago, International Youth Day was celebrated. Social media, print media and electronic media were filled with inspirational messages and news with a popular message that young people are the future of every country. I have a question for our Indian government and our education agencies, whether Indian youth are being cared...