Education and Skill Training

Defence Aviation major HAL in partnership with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are setting up a Skill Development Centre at Challakere in Chitradurga District, to enhance the skill set of local people. Foundation laying for construction of the Centre was performed yesterday by HAL CMD T Suvarna Raju and Prof Anurag Kumar, Director,IISc. ''This will...

At least half of the world’s 65 million school-age children with disabilities are kept out of the classroom because little to no money is budgeted for their needs, a disability rights groups said in a report on Monday. Light for the World, a charity which supported the research, said stigma and misinformation surrounding disability as...

India is a highly populated democratic nation. Around 60% of India’s population is young and need their skills to be channelized. They have to earn and contribute to the nation’s development. Creation of new jobs is a crucial task. The education level in recent years has increased and the development of skill is an...

In the country of Vedas, literature has always played a significant role. India boasts of a rich culture broadly based on the ancient scriptures. Unfortunately, with changing times, India cannot take pride of its literacy rates. The literacy rate of India according to the Census report 2011 is 74.04% including 82.14% males and 65.46% females. The global...

Corporate houses preferred to partner with NGOs over social enterprises when it came to executing corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, states a survey report published by Samhita Social Ventures. Identification and selection of NGOs was also found to be challenging for companies. “Non-government organisations (NGO) were preferred over social enterprises because of the favourable stance...

Sampark Foundation in collaboration with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Government of Chhattisgarh flagged off implementation of Sampark Smart Class Program across all government primary schools in Chhattisgarh. The program is being implemented in over 33,000 primary government schools with 23 lakh children with an investment of Rs 60 crores from Sampark Foundation. The initiative aims to ensure...

Girls4Tech is a hands-on, inquiry-based program that connects the foundations of the Mastercard business to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) principles and shows students that it takes all kinds of interests and skills to pursue a STEM career. Part of a worldwide rollout, Mastercard will bring its signature Girls4Tech program back to Pune on 5...

Mitsubishi Electric Group companies in India undertook a joint initiative to support the Welfare Centre for Speech & Hearing Therapy at Gurgaon under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The companies pooled in their resources to set up a composting plant for recycling kitchen waste, installed cold drinking water facility and refurbished the hostel kitchen and mess infrastructure...

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of,” the statement by Confucius, a Chinese philosopher around 500-400 BC still holds true. India being a developing country has been facing huge sets of challenges, the rising inequality between the haves and...

Hailing from Navi Mumbai, Sumeet Paringe (26) and Prisiliya Madan (22), two young cycling enthusiasts have set their feet on a journey. They have paddled across the length of India with their cycles earlier. But this time, the journey is different. Paringe and Madan have blended their passion with a social cause. The duo is...

The Indian Constitution promises justice, liberty, equality and fraternity to every citizen. Post independence, these basic objectives are yet struggling to be a norm in the country. Though equality is preached by all, lack of its practice is visibly noticed. On 25th November, 1949 the Constitution Assembly of India met in the Constitution Hall where...

Visit few events or websites of companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) wing, one thing you will not miss, are the pictures of poor and deprived children. These pictures speak about the unfortunate state of our country’s children- their poverty struck lives, unhealthy and under-nourished health, responsibilities- they are burdened with and their education. Seldom...