RURALENGINE is a company established in 2008 to empower rural talent and promote gender equality. It identifies talented rural engineers, especially women, and provides them a 6-12 month apprenticeship program to make them ready for industry. Over 3500 engineers have completed the program and work at various IT companies. The document proposes ways for corporations to support this CSR initiative through hiring graduates, sponsoring training costs, or volunteering for training programs. It outlines RURALENGINE's strengths like high employability rates and proven technical skills. Technologies covered in training include mainframes, Java, and SAP. Soft skills training includes topics like communication, teamwork, and quality standards. The goal is to promote education and gender equality.

1. CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
INITIATIVE

2. RURALENGINE a section 8 company established by
Devaraj Gowdanar in the year 2008 to "Empower rural
talent for the economic growth of our nation”. RU-
RALENGINE is deeply committed to make the college
graduates corporate ready.
RURALENGINE is addressing the cause “Gender
equality at work place” by identifying talented rural
engineers (girls) and make them ready for the industry.
Over the last 7 years more than 3500 engineers have
completed our apprenticeship program and are working
in various IT companies.
2015 2014 2012 & 13 2008 - 11
How Corporates can support this CSR activity.
 Hire a percent of fresher hire from RURALENGINE (E.g.
25% of the fresher's hire can be from RURALENGINE).
 Sponsor the training cost
 Involve your staff for volunteering various training programs,
especially the domain and functional trainings at RURALEN-
GINE.
Some of the companies where our engineers are currently working with
Mission :
Promoting Gender equality and empow-
ering Rural Talent by making them cor-
porate ready and thus contributing for

3. What is our strength?
 All our members are Engineers with First class marks throughout.
 Ready availability of large pool of employable engineers
 Proven for higher percentage of employability in the pool
 Track record of proven technical knowledge and commitment level
with 40+ MNCs
 All our engineers comes with minimum experience of 6 months to 2
years on a given technology
 Our members willing work on legacy technologies without creating
attrition issues
 With your collaboration we can customize the technology knowledge
for our resource pool
 We have a pool of 3500 engineers who are our members willing to
volunteer to support our juniors in Training effort.
Technologies we are focusing on?
 Mainframes
 AS400
 J2EE Springs
 Data stage
 .Net
 OBIEE
 Manual testing
 SAP ABAP
 Dialogue
Soft skills training imparted during the project work?
SDLC.
 All our engineers undergo Training on SDLC, Process to be
followed in the project, Quality standards, documentation
standards, coding standards.
Banking Domain?
 All our engineers undergo Training on Banking for
developers, training delivered by one of the experienced
person working in Banking industry.
Mainframe, J2EE Experience ?
RURALENGNE is developing an application called GRACE which is a collection engine, enhances the collection
capabilities by providing ‘best in class’ collection solutions to all markets. The approach is customer centric and multi
channel and effective common systems and processes is delivered across products segments and processes to reduce
delinquency and charge off in the cost effective way. Customers are given more options and increased control over their
financial situation. They have the opportunity to choose how they interact with collections including a self service approach
and 24/7 access with real time automated decision capabilities.
GRACE’s architecture is built around the Modular architecture. The modular design makes the modules loosely
coupled and inter-independent, means there is more flexibility in the application. The modules can be easily
integrated with other systems already functioning, thereby making deployments faster and economical.
 Ethics
 Presentation Skills
 Effective Communication Skills
 Time Management
 Culture
 Email etiquette
 Professionalism
 Listening Skills
 Working in Team
 Business etiquette
 Leadership skills
 Attitude
 Importance of Quality in software
At RURALENGINE we are working closely with various Engineering collages across India and Identify the
talented engineers (Mostly girls) by filtering through aptitude teats and interview, selected engineers goes
through RURALENGINE Apprenticeship program for 6 months which is a comprehensive training and
development program on both personality development and technology training to make them Industry ready.

4. RURALENGINE is focusing on
1) Promotion of Education
2) Promoting Gender Equality and
empowerment of women
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY