Microsoft India on Tuesday announced an additional amount of Rs 1.61 crore for its ongoing Community Technology Skills Programme to promote IT access and training.
NEW DELHI: Microsoft India on Tuesday announced an additional amount of Rs 1.61 crore for its ongoing Community Technology Skills Programme to promote IT access and training for communities vulnerable to unsafe migration and human trafficking across the country.
Making the announcement at a function here, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation Nancy Anderson said through this programme 44,800 youth from economically disadvantaged communities especially vulnerable to trafficking will receive IT training over next three years.
She said Microsoft has been working with CAP Foundation to implement the project and under the grants, the non-profit organisation will get Rs 1.18 crore in cash, software and curriculum to provide training to youths.
Anderson said the second grant of over Rs 42 lakh is aimed at enabling safe migration and professional advancement for low skilled workers who want to migrate overseas for employment.
Around 6,000 such workers registered with Overseas Migration Corporations or similar agencies in India will receive pre-migration IT and employability skills training, certification and placement assistance over a period of three years.
"We trust both these grants will contribute to strengthening the role of IT in enabling jobs and employment for underserved individuals and bridging the skills gap," she said addressing the valedictory function for graduates of CAP foundation's training courses.
Microsoft has so far partnered with 13 NGOs for the Community Technology Skills Programme in India, supported close to 900 Community Technology Learning Centres across the country and trained more than 1,20,000 people in 20 states and Union Territories, a company official said.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is also extending cooperation to Microsoft and CAP foundation for implementation of the project.
On the occasion, Mission Director of USAID in India George Deikun said the USAID was privileged to be part of this very exciting initiative which linked learning with livelihood.
"It is revolutionising the way vulnerable youth, who have little prospect of employment, are mainstreamed into society," he said.
Thanking Microsoft for its financial support, Chairperson of CAP Foundation Nalini Gangadharan said the project was changing lives of underprivileged youths.
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