1. WHY GROW?
Total 5 Million Disabled Youth
(Between 15 - 35 yrs.)
In our country out of five million disabled youth between the
ages of 15 - 35 years only 1% are employed. Apart from
fact that many disabled youth do not have skill sets that will
enable them to get jobs easily, the main impediments for
employability continues to be infrastructural challenges at
work place, poor implementation of GoI policies in addition
to misconceptions and biases towards the disabled
population.
Skilled
No skills
No jobs
1%
KEY OUTCOMES
“Skill Shift” is the core of the GROW program. Our focus is
on enabling students to improve their skills
“Better Skill. Better Job.” – Program will focus on better
skills with the help of industry vetted curriculum and certified
trainers and it will help students to get better jobs
“Better Matchmaking” - IT platform will play a very import-
ant role in doing matchmaking between students’ competen-
cies & aspirations and employers’ job requirements before
sending them for interviews
“Employer Connect” - GROW program will have better
engagement with employers to know their requirements well
and serve them better by providing skilled resources
Our aim is to become a “partner of choice” for the
DISABLED YOUTH and the EMPLOYER.
GROW PROCESS
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Appointment
Counsellingand
ProfileCreation
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Competency
AssessmentCourse
Recommendation
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Enrolment
BatchStart
Announcement
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Mandatoryand
ModularTraining
Assessmenton
Competencies
MatchMakingfor
JobPlacement
Interview
Acknowledgement
JobJoiningPostPlacementsupport
andLifelongAlumniConnect
BETTERSKILLS.BETTERJOBS.
BETTER SKILLS. BETTER JOBS.
BETTER SKILLS. BETTER JOBS.
BETTER SKILLS. BETTER JOBS.

2. KEY FEATURES
We pledge to improve competencies of youth
to match job requirements, and make GROW
the partner of choice for youth and employers
thereby contributing to a Skilled India.
The GROW program is designed to be more impactful,
scalable and self-sustainable and aims to add value to the
overall eco system of skilling.
ASSESSMENT OF YOUTH’S COMPETENCIES
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We are introducing pre & post assessment
for applicants to gauge their competencies
before enrolling them into the program and
measuring the skill shift made after the
training. All youth joining the program will be
trained with the aim of bringing at least one
level shift in their competencies.
KEY FEATURES
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We have strengthened our employer connect
process to serve our employers well. Feedback
systems from the employer have been developed
for tracking performance post placement and also
developed the process to create disability
awareness across organization, job role identifica-
tion and accessibility matters. The IT platform also
provides access to employers to manage all their
requirements effectively.
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In addition to this a mobile application with
multiple features for all aspirants/alumni is
part of the IT system. Through this applica-
tion during training period the aspirants can
give impartial feedback on program and
training. Post placement they can update
their working status, refer other aspirants
and employers link, update their CVs and
receive other updates.
Note: IT platform and Mobile App will go live in the month of Nov 2016
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A process for better post-placement and
hand-holding support has been designed which
focusses especially on the first three months where
the attrition level is highest as per our research done.
Support provided to employers on inducting a
hearing impaired person in the system
after placement.
KEY FEATURES
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The new IT platform is built to automate the
entire skilling and employment process and
wil manage the entire “life cycle” of
aspirants. This will also help in matching
aspirants’ competencies and aspirations to
job requirements.
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The training has two main components. The
first part is mandatory for all aspirants which
is on Soft Skill, Communication and Sector
Readiness. This is followed by a
“Need-based” modular training (Level 1 & 2)
on Communicative English, Advance
English, Digital Literacy, Typing, Numeracy
which are tailored to suit individual needs
and aspirations.
All trainers are certified by our L&D team after 40
days of intensive Training of Trainers (ToT)
program, so that they are better equipped to train
and bring the required skill shift in aspirants.Sign
language interpreters are part of training process
for training Hearing Impaired.
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Our GROW centers for Persons with
disability are equipped with better
infrastructure to make it disabled friendly
and create better learning environment.
INDUSTRY VETTED MANDATORY AND
MODULAR COURSES BETTER EMPLOYER CONNECT
END TO END TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
MOBILE APP FOR STUDENTS
BETTER LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
CERTIFIED TRAINERS POST-PLACEMENT SUPPORT
The focus of GROW program for persons with disability is
on “Better Skills & Better Jobs”. With rapidly changing
skilling ecosystem, GROW is all about bringing the focus
back on SKILLS. To ensure that each process is designed
in such a way that starting from counselling, assessments,
learning infrastructure, training methodology, trainers,
industry vetted courses is will support in skill level SHIFT of
aspirants.
This is encapsulated in the following GROW PLEDGE
BETTER SKILLS. BETTER JOBS. BETTER SKILLS. BETTER JOBS.BETTER SKILLS. BETTER JOBS.