Livemint: In a bid to supply manpower to India’s booming organized retail sector institutes, government agencies and even non-profit groups are stepping in. Huge investment plans by home-grown and foreign retailers are fuelling a great demand for people with basic skills in organized retailing. Consultancy firm Technopak Advisors Pvt. Ltd says the country’s modern retailers [...]
Livemint: Instead of setting up Indian institutes of management in backward areas, the government should set up institutes of rural management and agri-business whose primary objective would be to create rural entrepreneurs. Such institutes will not only
disseminate knowledge but also help in creating an interface between entrepreneurs, financial institutions and national-level scientific institutes.
Where politicians and [...]
Hindu: An estimated one lakh broadband enabled service centres are expected to come up in the country by March 2008 at a cost of Rs. 5,400 crore if Union Minister of Communication and Information Technology A. Raja is to be believed. One centre will come up for every six villages with all e-governance services. A [...]
Business Standard: Experts say that the benefits of such a tie-up include a lower attrition rate, besides being a part of corporate social responsibility of companies.
Sanvi Aanwar, a resident of Veeratpur village in Punjab, was able to earn Rs 6,000 a month with incentives, after she was employed by Tata group’s E2E SerWiz Solutions Limited [...]
Economic Times: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam has said that all activities under Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) should focus on employment generation.
Addressing a special consultation meeting on ‘PURA as a model of sustainable rural development’, he said employment generation alone could address the problem regarding upliftment of over 220 million [...]
Reuters - A nonprofit group that designs low-cost computers for poor children may start selling $350 laptops on the commercial market by Christmas, an executive said on Monday.
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation’s chief technology officer, Mary Lou Jepsen, said the computer could sell initially for about $350, or twice its production cost, although the [...]
I strongly believe that progressive governance can only be brought about by a partnership between the government, the industry, the civil society, and the academic world. Each of these stakeholders have an inherent ability to be able to form policies which would be more populist in nature. In an ideal scenario, they would all balance [...]