Bangalore-based Goodera, a global corporate social responsibility & sustainability management technology platform, has raised $5.5 million in a Series A round from Nexus Venture Partners and Omidyar Network, according to a statement. Varsha Rao, previously head of global operations at Airbnb,…
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Coming Soon: India’s largest skill development centre to train over 5k people in a year
The Deshpande Foundation, the decade-long philanthropic effort of Silicon Valley entrepreneur Gururaj ‘Desh’ Deshpande, is setting up India’s largest skill development centre in the North Karnataka town of Hubbali that will open its doors in April this year. Nestled on a seven-acre piece of land …
National Skill Plan to be ready by March next year
Having accorded top priority to skill development, the government now aims to impart skills to around 40 crore people by 2022 for which it will formulate a national plan by March next year. According to government sources, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship plans to activate a…
India Inc putting CSR money in start-up incubators
Companies like SAP, Tata Motors and Bajaj Electricals are investing in startups through government-affiliated incubators as a part of their mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending. Nearly a dozen companies have shown interest in spending CSR money in incubators at the IITs and II…
Create seamless industry value chain to engage trained & certified workforce: Skill Development Secy
To make India a global human resource hub and achieve sustainability in skill development, the private sector needed to employ only trained and certified workers. It is essential that a seamless industry value chain is created to engage the trained and certified workforce, said Rohit Nandan, Secr…
There’s an immediate need to foster entrepreneurship | Asoke K Laha, MD, Interra IT
He is keeping a close tab on the run-up to the US Presidential polls, and at the same time taking a trip down memory lane, leafing through the pages of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel- “The Lowland’, which is based on 1970’s Calcutta, Presidency College and Jadavpur University, two of his alma maters…
‘Make in Jharkhand’ | MSMEs to strengthen the rural belt
The first 15 years for a state with immense potential, given its rich mineral resources, have not been as speedy as expected, thanks to political instability and bureaucratic hurdles. Raghubar Das, Jharkhand’s 10th CM in 15 years, tells Kumar Akash & Bhaswar Kumar about the initiatives taken …