STRETCHING THE CANVAS

At City Innovates, we are driven by an extraordinary passion to meet the scale of challenge of a large working young population, rising to 125 million over the next one decade. We are laying the first few bricks to the foundation of India’s resolve to create 100 million new jobs in the next decade. By some estimates, India produces twice as many new graduates each year as it can absorb; the other remain jobless for want of skills. This is where we come.

No wonder, due to lack of skills in India,  what we see today around us, are armies of delivery boys, guards, housekeepers, peons and stool sitters. Out of around half a billion jobs in the country, barely 15% of work force is skilled and working in organized sector. 85% and more are on informal jobs and get not beyond $ 1.50 a day. This is what we are resolved to improve substantially, very soon.

In what could easily be a first in India that Youth Internship Program (YIP), an ambitious initiative by City Innovates and launched on 15^th of October, 2014 aims to build competence for special job skills in students while they are doing their secondary school education. A high quality vocational training in superior IT skills without disturbing the students from their routine studies is both, a challenge as well a hallmark deliverable of this Company.

Students can earn while they learn. YIP helps good students to earn while working on job, and thus use the money so earned to pursue their higher ambitions. At the end of the program, students would be able to identify their area of strength, innate potential to perform. It would build confidence in them to pursue the career of their choice. Interns are put through the rigor of hard-core skill-development capsule of 3 months in the contemporary IT skills, including web designing, digital marketing and developing mobile applications. By the time they pass out from 10+2 class, they are all geared up to select and pursue the field of their expertise for further education and continue to build side by side a passion they would have developed for the skill gained during the internship. The internship is no longer a barrier to student’s academic performance but instead, develops increased focus to the area perfected by them during the youth internship.