YOUTH, SKILL, JOBS, INDIA

Its only been only a few months since I came to Mumbai, I  got an opportunity to work on a national scale with the NASSCOM Foundation, I was given responsibility of the Connect IT programme and am fairly satisfied with how the Connect IT program has moved so far. Having finished off the NGOs training in Maharashtra I am currently working on content for Government Officers.This is indeed interesting. Come Mid March and I would be back in Maharashtra rolling this out. My stay in Mumbai has been very happening.There has been so much of activity that I have completely been absorbed in it. I have spent almost all my weekends travelling. I have travelled to lovely places and have almost been out of office everyday.My trips  to Hubli, Hyderabad, Pune, Sangli, Nagpur, Kolhapur have been memorable interesting.how about seeing a Gutka factory doing CSR in education :) a small mobile shop in Sangli called Global Communications. Its been quite a time.I was lucky to find accomodation ne...

Ever since I left TCS I have made an effort to make the masses use ICT. I have spent time with school kids,  college students, principals, ngo personnels, ngo leaders, office boys. The idea is to make them understand what IT has in store for them. Can they work to setup efficient systems in the ngos so that they spend less time in unnecessary things and use their core competency. As I have worked I have had several experiences that I have cherished, hated or plainly wondered. I would like to put up one experience I would never forget, one that has made me much stronger. Once while marketing apnaIT's products to schools, I had the misfortune of meeting a principal. All went well for sometime until he asked what is your background? I honestly told him I worked for TCS for 4 years and the quit to use all my acquired skills for underpriviliged in the country. I expected him to be ok with what I said, but then what he said left me aghas...