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| Why? Demand-Supply Gap |
 15 million youth need initial vocational training every year in India and the existing private & public institutionalcapacity is only 3 million China has 500,000 vocational training schools as opposed to India which has 11,000 Industry needs 10 million need to be trained through non-formal/informal mode annually especially across trades like machinist, fitter, welder, electrician, plumber, mechanic etc. |
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| What? Skill Building and Employability |
Intervention through vocational education in the form of tailor-made skill building programs for individual/ industry- specific requirements to make them ‘employment ready’ Focus on underdeveloped regions to fill gaps in technical skill, develop soft skills and impart job specific training 1-24 month residential training programs certified by Ministry of Labour (NCVT ITI Programs, DGET MES) or in affiliation with CTTC (Central Tool Room & Training Centre), Cisco (CCNA) & IIW (Indian Institute of Welding) |
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| How? Business Model and Operating Plan |
Candidates to be sourced using contacts with government authorities, NGOs, self help groups and industry tie-ups Technical, soft skills training and industry specific job training to be imparted based on skills assessment Existing network of Centurion Group of Institutes (CGI) to guarantee at least 75% placements Industry sponsorships, government employment schemes and Education Loans through Micro Finance will help students finance their training cost |
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| Who? Management Team |
Core team will include management of CGI that rolled out vocational training programs in Orissa in 2006 - successfully trained over 4,000 students till date The group has over 25 years of experience in the education sector and has a vast network across NGOs, GramPanchayats in the area of intervention Members are professors/distinguished alumni of IIM, XIMB, University of Melbourne and other top institutes of India |
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| Where? Eastern States of India |
Gram Tarang currently operates in East India where it has a widespread field network across villages and semi urban centres in a Hub & Spoke model Centurion Group's (www.cgi.ac.in) well established educational institutes serve as the mother centres and Gram Taranghas already setup 5 sattelite centres across Orissa, Andhra Pradesh Future geographical coverage will include the states of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Bihar, Assam & Meghalaya which arefacing problems of high dropout rates in schools & colleges, resulting in a huge surplus of unskilled human resources |