YOUTH, SKILL, JOBS, INDIA

Its been quite some time that I left the formal corporate sector, in the last two years I have had  diverse experiences from foundations, social entreprises, ngos to govt departments and industry bodies.If there is something to be missed I guess my class at ISB would complete it. As known, that I am in Lucknow, and have been hearing and feeling UP politics after a long tine, In the last few days I have also have had a chance to meet people who are keen to work for social good but do not know how and where to begin, they have few ideas but also have the limitations that a normal Indian life puts on us. Anyhow I wish to put up a few things that have emerged out of these discussions. First there is some news, the entire city of Nawab is today completely decked up in Blue, the official color of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party party, 200 cr is being spent for a rally that will have 20 lakh people, all state departments have jobs assigned to do, i mean jobs at the rally, so its kind o...

A three day development dalogue came to an end of 29th Jan 09.The dialogue included sessions with Ashoka fellows,discussion of case studies and field trips to different ngos.It was a global conference and a good mix of people from both the profit and non profit sector. We had opportunity to showcase our business plan and get some badly needed feedabck. So apnaIT is now on the path of refining its model and making it robust so that we make sure we have all the ingredients of a fully scalable model.