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PanIIT Initiatives

The Context

IIT Alumni - Reach 4 India The 9% India growth story presents an ironical paradox - nearly every sector is facing huge human resources crunch on one side and there is rural under-employment, on the other side. Urban India is teeming with surplus financial capital and rural India is languishing with little business activity. It is these paradoxes that Reach 4 India seeks to bridge by making corporate India go rural and local for creating jobs and markets and in doing so use its own resources to ensure scalability. In the process, it would charge a human capital fee in terms of few personnel to implement PANIIT nation building initiatives on the ground level.

The Proposition

'Reach 4 India' is human capital channel for deploying self-sustainable and scalable nation building projects. Professionals on a one year employer sponsored sabbatical will be deployed across all the 5500 taluka's of India to take these nation building initiatives to the local level. They would be adequately supported by the acharya structure consisting of volunteers (Ex-iitians/IAS, Retired professionals) and the IIT alumni network to provide governance, mentoring and other linkages with governments, corporates. One project per PAN IIT stream has been identified to go-to-market with:

proposition

The Sustainability

Major part of 'Reach 4 India' costs are the direct costs of its sevaks which are covered by the respective employers. This is more of an investment than cost for corporates as they would reap the benefits of better cost and value arbitrage by going rural/local. The organizational and other costs of full time Reach 4 India employees would be covered using CSR annuities/donor funds.

Future steps

Reach 4 India would follow 50 sevaks -500 sevak -5000 sevaks model to grow in 4 years:

Alumni Appeal

Support for PanIIT Alumni Reach for India

We have been over the past year worked overtime to set up a base and team to scale PanIIT Alumni Reach for India in to a strong social enterprise... Read more

Support for PanIIT Alumni Reach for India

Click here to download the Client Prospectus

Dear PanIITian,
As per your volunteering in PanIIT 2008 for supporting us through your support, We have been over the past year worked overtime to set up a base and team to scale PanIIT Alumni Reach for India in to a strong social enterprise. We believe we are now in a position to solicit your assistance for an ambitious scale we have set for ourselves in coming months.

PanIIT Alumni Reach for India, under aegis of PanIIT Alumni India, has endeavored to enhance incomes of under-privileged through skills and entrepreneurship. Over the coming months we seek to scale up from current 3 Gurukuls and add another 15 more to be to train 5000 underprivileged students per year. Hence, we have raised funds to set up skill gurukuls across seven states in India. In the first phase we seek to operationalize 10 such gurukuls in the following states and districts:-

Bastar, Raigarh - Chhatisgarh Dist
Coastal areas of Tamilnadu
Coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and Mehboobnagar District
Ahmednagar in Maharashtra
Udaipur and Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan

We seek your assistance in helping us identify clients or industry consortia who would be able to absorb trained students from centers above on a regular basis at the end of each training cycle. It needs to be noted that the client NEED NOT be based in the same geographic location but could be at the nearest industrial hub. For example, Bastar in Chhatisgarh might be servicing a client in Andhra across its border. In short, we will ensure our trained candidates move to places where there are opportunities as long as they are assured a job with market compensation.

The trades we are looking are typically 'hard' skills that can be taught to drop-outs in a 30-45 day full time, residential manner(not retail, sales kind of profile with 10th plus requirement) and would required capital and operational expenditure to learn, the kind of stuff we all went through in our 'workshop' stints at IIT! The indicative list is:-

Welding and fabrication
Manufacturing support services - Chemical plant assistant operators, Turning, Milling, Grinding
Garment making and textile
Cooking and catering
Process instrumentation and Lab assistants
Construction(Has to be direct employment with company with proven ethical employment practices)
Any other trades as client may seek

I am attaching a client prospectus that explains the same in detail. We are requesting you to network us with large industrial partners, reputed facilities management companies, industry consortia that can ensure uptake of these below-the-poverty line people on a constant basis. Typical batch size would be 40-50 people at the end of 30-45 days and these people could serve replacement demand arising out of attrition as well.

Feel free to contact me for any further queries.

Regards
Kalyan
Founding Sevak,
PanIIT Alumni Reach For India

For more information, please visit the Reach for India program website

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 December 2009

Comments (2)

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prof sewa ram agarwal ( 34 day(s) ago )

is there any initiative in my area? wolud like to get associated to further this noble cause

Raj V Varadarajan ( 34 day(s) ago )

Hello, Kalyan is itpossible to update this periodically with the progress of gurukuls including the nabard funding etc. So once we go public with this website any member besides being a gb member can be an active volunteer in one of the activities of the piai. raj

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