Education and Skill Training

Anil Swarup, in his keynote address, shared best practices in education from across India and stressed on the need to adopt them to scale.

To ensure the inclusion of rural areas and help them understand digital payments meetings at all levels such as branch offices, gram sabhas and gram panchayats so as to ensure they walk in sync with the rest of the nation in financial growth and literacy.

The government has missed its targets of jobs creation and employment every year, due to increase in automation and inability to cope. CSR funds going into the sector of skill development are 5%.

In my first piece in this three-part series, I introduced systems thinking and discussed why it is so relevant for the development sector and...

Uma and Muthuram have transformed the lives of at least 50 odd students below the poverty line, with higher education. In addition to the...

We know that an education model is deemed effective when students are provided with ample opportunities to access interactive content, information in multiple formats...

Creating opportunities for a million people, through skill training – this key initiative of Godrej Good & Green’s vision 2020 for enhancing livelihoods is...

The Uttarakhand government has sought help from the corporates of the country to help out with school infrastructure of the state.

Whilst India has experienced significant economic growth over the last 20 years, much of this wealth generation has been inequitable. On one hand, we have...

To make interventions in the development sector work, we need more than attitude, legislation and participation. We need effective strategies, efficient execution and robust measurements.

By 2020, 65% Indians will be under the age of 35, making us the youngest country in the world. A large employable population is...

Skill development, the national agenda, has been quite well embraced by the corporate world. This is the right time to delve deeper into the sector and tap the unexplored