Education and Knowldege Sharing

By Sanjay Chittora, Director, STEP Academy, Aajeevika Bureau At STEP Academy — the skilling initiative of Aajeevika Bureau — we’ve always believed that real impact happens when training goes beyond classrooms and connects deeply with people’s everyday realities. One of our flagship efforts is the On-the-Job Training (OJT) programme. It’s a simple but powerful idea — train unskilled workers right where the work happens, so learning is practical, relevant, and immediately usefu

Knowledge Factory is a festival of ideas, insights, and trivia. It’s an avenue of knowledge exchange to throw light on unconventional topics relevant to our world today. Subscribe to Knowledge Factory on Twitter  & YouTube  to stay connected to this world of new ideas.  India has been a thriving ground for aspiring entrepreneurs, as evidenced by the fact that even in the throes of the pandemic, a whopping 16,000 start-ups were recognized in the 2020-21 period. The industry is

According to the Human Development Report 2020, 78.8% of workers in India are unskilled. This is just one of many stark facts: Present-day labour markets are structured so entry-level wages in the organised sector differ little from casual daily wage labour. While state programs focus on skills relevant to the formal sector, such as computer training and retail, skill development resources for industries like construction need to be more evolved. Given that the construction

Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSMEs) have long since been touted to be an impetus to India’s growing economy. They currently contribute 29% of the total GDP, which the government intends to expand to 50% by 2024. With schemes such as Make in India, MUDRA, ASPIRE, CLCSS, CGTSME, so on and so forth, the government is undoubtedly pushing for creation of an entrepreneurial environment in the country. However, despite these efforts, there continue to remain certain gaps in

The recognition of skilling and skills as a salient feature of employment, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Over the past few years, the Indian government has established the NSDC, and promulgated Mission Skill India, which includes several components such as PMKVY, SANKALP, UDAAN to name a few. Despite this, we are nowhere near accomplishing our promise of skilling 300 million people of the population by 2020. This underscores certain deficiencies or flaws of our skilling appr

Innumerable debates have occurred on gender equity world over and more so in India, most of them including women’s positing in the society, general level of education and exposure, health status, participation in sports, economic standing and the like. While on one hand, there is an increased literacy and participation in workforce by women in India, they still struggle to counter the patriarchal mindset which is the root cause for issues like early school dropouts, lack of f

Health is a fundamental human right and is a pre-requisite for any further human, social or economic development. It is a causative factor that impacts a nation’s aggregate economic growth. With the COVID-19 outbreak , there is no denying the fact that human health is one of the most critical areas and needs government’s attention. Though currently, healthcare is the focal point for everyone, getting undivided attention of both central and state governments, the same wasn’t

World Bank’s 2012 report on India’s Poverty Profile exclaims that 21% population of India lives below poverty line, i.e. 1 in every 5 persons in India is poor. The numbers in 2020 would be rather grimmer. Poverty presents itself with other issues of hunger, debt-trap, poor health status, minimal or no education for children, no decent employment opportunities and thus the vicious cycle of poverty continues for the next generation of the family. Multitude of government schemes

8 th March was lot of fun and excitement. Doers’ Labs added another feather to its cap “workshop on women safety”. Without using any martial arts techniques or carrying any weapons, with women of Dimensions Data we created a new safety mantra ……BREAK…..Break the silence, Recognise risks, Empower, Aware and Know safety techniques. The 2 hrs workshop gave us a group of friends who shared, laughed over experiences, discovered safety equipment like safety pins and key rings and p

We live in a raucous world where the buzz of static noise and the cacophony of high-pitched sounds drown out meaningful stuff. It is somewhat paradoxical that in a world that has hundreds of TV channels, thousands of websites and millions of social media users, we get more confused than enlightened. What Knowledge Factory hopes is to bring some entertaining sense of knowledge through events and talks that shape intelligent, socially and intellectually aware citizens. Here’s w