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Follow on Google News | Ajay Batra shares his plan of empowering the massive Indian human capital with start-up, EduSkill“This section is powered by HP Make it Matter - believe in the power of people when technology works for them”
Founder, Ajay Batra is no newbie in this space, so when he shared his entrepreneurial journey with us, we knew deep insights into the education domain were coming our way. “I started my first entrepreneurial venture in education back in 1990-91 when I setup Excel Infotech Ltd., an IT education start-up. The company started its operations in 1991 from a small office in New Delhi and grew to 100+ centers by 1995-96. In 1997, I exited selling my stake and moved on to digital processing for printing industry. While I chased opportunities in other fields, I was always passionate to return to the education industry.” Recognizing the need of skilled manpower for India’s growth and the opportunity in education sector particularly in area of skill development and improving employability, Ajay conceptualised EduSkill in October 2010. The idea was to offer skill development, training and assessment solutions to various skill providers across the country to make the youth of India more employable. Rakesh Khanna an industry veteran, and Surender Sharma joined as founders and Gabss EduSkill Ltd. was registered as a company in January 2011. Aashish, with his Business education from Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA has also played an integral role in shaping EduSkill. Ajay got the idea for this bootstrapped venture at a lecture delivered by none other than CK Prahlad in September 2007: “I would like to see 500 million certified and skilled technicians” Ajay puts a lot of emphasis on the main aim behind EduSkill (http://gabss- Attracting talent to work for start-up is one of the major challenge for Ajay. His plans for building a strong business development team and adding new products and services to their portfolio seem to be affected by this talent crunch. Presently, EduSkill is at a stage to scale up the efforts with 100 locations by end of FY 2012-13 going over 1,000 locations by end of FY 2014-15. EduSkill (http://gabss- End
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