Building skills for a better future

A team from the ICICI Academy for Skills visited our Baank-e-Loom centre in Uttar Pradesh last month to interact with girls in Saidanpur and nearby villages. Shilpee Adhikari from the Foundation shared details about the bank’s non-profit job-oriented three-month training programme, which will be held in Lucknow, for girls between the age group of 18…

Creating a sampoorna gaon

This month, DEF and Nokia are happy to initiate their Smart Village rural entrepreneurship-based project based on a hub-and-spoke model in Nuh (Haryana) and Asoor (Tamil Nadu). It is a model concept that has been conceptualised in a manner that challenges and redefines the existing idea of smart villages, which is based more on the availability…

Insuring farmers’ future

Supported by Oracle and CAF India, CIRC Madhusudangarh in Madhya Pradesh has enabled farmers and other community members to avail various government schemes and entitlements. Due to lack of information, people are often left in the dark about the various government services that they are eligible for or are unaware of the process of availing…