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OVERVIEW Direct interventions with youth include enabling
jobs/entrepreneurship, enhancement of employability,
Tata STRIVE is a skill development initiative of Tata and creating career awareness through counselling.
Community Initiatives Trust (TCIT), operating under the Interventions in the skill development ecosystem include
aegis of the Tata Trusts. It faculty development, technology,
aims to actively bridge
or domain support to other skill
the gap between
development providers. This is
vocational education
represented below:
and skills needed by the
industry. In 2014, when
Enabling jobs and livelihoods:
the vision for Tata
With carefully curated training
STRIVE was crafted, it
programmes, Tata STRIVE has
seemed a task worthy
for a Tata organisation touched many lives by providing
to pursue. Slowly and skills training for jobs and
surely over seven years, improving their quality of life.
Tata STRIVE has
established its o erings Enhancing employability: Tata
and built credibility in STRIVE believes strongly in
the ecosystem, both providing holistic training to
with state governments aspirants by o ering more than
and public sector units, as just skills training to improve their
well as corporates looking to deploy their CSR funds in
employability. Tata STRIVE o ers courses for holistic
projects that can be trusted to achieve their stated
development of students through its employability skills
outcomes. Today, Tata STRIVE is a leading innovator in
programme across colleges.
the skill development ecosystem and a trusted partner
for many. By March 31, 2022, its impact was pegged
Improve quality of skill development: To benefit the
at 1.02 million.
larger ecosystem, and hence reach more students, Tata
STRIVE has taken steps to improve training partners’
Tata STRIVE’s vision is that of ‘gainful livelihood for every
aspirant.’ It provides youth from marginalised communities facilitator training methods and course content.
access to quality skills training, technology, and
employment by paving a way for the youth to transition Create career awareness and counsel: Tata STRIVE
e ortlessly into the digital economy of tomorrow. has made great strides in reinforcing the need to seek
Together with a network of partners, Tata STRIVE’s models proper career guidance among aspirants. This step
employ strategies that aim to achieve large impact–both ensures that every learner passing out has an edge in the
through direct interventions with youth and through competitive market.
interventions in organisations’ skill development ecosystem.
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