Information Technology Centres

About the Programme

The Udayan Care Information Technology Programme planted its roots in 2004, with the goal of bringing technology closer to underserved communities and using it as a tool to improve their opportunities of livelihood. Udayan Care introduces and elevates the levels of computer literacy among youth, helping them keep up with the newly digitised world. The programme provides the youth, children and women from economically weaker sections access to IT skills. It empowers them through digital literacy and job- oriented skill training, in courses, ranging from graphic design, accounting softwares, desktop Publishing, etc.

Udayan Care has empaneled with National Skill Development Corporation, NSDC in Jan’22 for 11 of its IT training centers. NSDC partnership will help Udayan Care IT center programme youth to provide specific skill training and help us to place youth in relevant entry level jobs to sustain their livelihood. It will also help us to make our centres hub of learning. Our partnership with NSDC is as a Non funding partner for training in five sectors (IT-ITes, Retail, Logistics, Telecom and BFSI). The partnership will enable us to enroll 5000 young adults in three years with 70% of placement of certified youth.

Today, We have 25 centers spread across 6 states. Our IT centres offer various certificates and diploma courses in basic as well as advanced computer applications, such as Community Technical Skills Program(CTSP), Diploma in Graphics and Print Design, Diploma in Information Technology (DIT), E-Accounting with Tally ERP.9, Desktop Publishing, Computer Concepts, Diploma of Computer Application(DCA) and Advance Diploma of Computer Application (ADCA).

Additionally, we also put emphasis on other aspects of holistic development such as soft skills training, English speaking skills, financial literacy, personality development and offer mentoring to make the beneficiaries well equipped for the professional world.

Covid 19

In 2020, the whole nation combated lockdown due to Coronavirus, all of us ensured to follow the rules of lockdown and give our full participation to help the government overcome this life-threatening situation. Adapting to the new normal we also tried to implement work from home as per the availability of resources and reach each employee of Udayan Care to give their optimum towards achieving organizational, as well as programme goals. The prompt actions taken by the organisation helped not only in fighting COVID 19 but ensured beneficiary & staff engagement with multiple activities for their enhancement. During this period, we connected with beneficiaries using digital format to provide them training in IT courses and English communication simultaneous, collaborated with CSRBox & IBM SkillsBuild to provide a self-learning platform to the youth for grooming their skills as per their areas of interest. IBM Skillsbuild became a boon for our participants at the IT centre with more than 7000 courses available, our 350 students explored IBM SkillsBuild platform where they had access to a lot of courses, to top it all, our 8 students got selected as “IBM Skills Build Champions”.

Programme Objective

Digital Literacy

The programme’s core objective is to improve the lives of underserved youth and women by fostering digital literacy. The courses impart within our students essential computer knowledge, language and interpersonal skills that enable them to use technology to enhance their employability. The programme imparts IT skills to disadvantaged sections such as slums, resettlement colonies and other low-income neighbourhoods, with a strong focus on youth and women. Therefore, to ensure gender equality we make sure that about half of our enrolees are women!

Empowering Youth with Holistic growth

To empower the disadvantaged youth, women and children and impart them with holistic growth and development, we train them in honing their soft skills. Regular sessions aimed at personality development and leadership building coupled with co-curricular activities help promote peer bonding and foster team spirit. Our enrollees emerge as confident job seekers, enriched with the ability to make informed decisions.

Inspiring careers

We are convinced that exposing students to the skills and information aligned with their choice of career paths, enhances their confidence. Therefore, we continuously work to connect different resource persons from corporate to facilitate sessions and workshops. The programme also facilitates one on one interaction of the students with corporates and professionals, to ensure maximum industry exposure and career guidance.

Social Impact on Community

Enrolment at our IT centres brings change in the personal, financial and social status of the beneficiaries, coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. Enriched by the exposure of interactions with individuals from different walks of life and learning the desired skill sets, they evolve into confident and responsible members of modern urban society, help their family financially also contributed in national economy.

Placement Assistance

Our placement cell has been working actively to bridge the gap between demand and supply of the youth workforce. Equipped with career counselling, job readiness, training, and assistance to get placement in a relevant field with decent entry level salary. Our team built relations with 80 companies (BPO, KPO, MSME, Accounting firms, Publication House etc.) for providing desired job opportunities to our students which would help them sustain their livelihood and make them financially independent.

Alumni Network

Since inception of the Udayan Care IT Programme, we have inculcated in our trainees the spirit of social responsibility; we followed a line which has been mentioned in Udayan Care's mission "the dignity of self-reliance and the desire to give back to society"

In 2018 we have initiated Alumni Network with objective to "Enable alumni to contribute their time, knowledge and personal networks for the upliftment of UC IT Programme"

What makes us different

Accessible knowledge

Our centres are equipped with quality infrastructure, high-end and latest software, well qualified and experienced trainers and affordable job specific courses with Job placement assistance that can be easily availed by underserved community youth.

Workshops and Trainings

Besides training our students in core IT skills, we also ensure to conduct workshops, training sessions, and co-curricular activities by imparting specific topics. These workshops are dedicated to impart soft skills, career counselling and create bonding between peers. These workshops are conducted on an extensive range of topics which are categorised under specialized categories like: Life skills, Personality Development, Use of technology – in Trend, communication skills, exposure visits etc.Some of our workshops are conducted in-house and for some we seek support from external organizations to avail expertise through resource person as like industry experts to hold session in a proficient manner.

Inculcating Social responsibility

The Udayan Care IT Programme motivates the beneficiaries for giving back, to practice the same we engage beneficiaries to conduct social campaigns, amplifying their voice against social issues which are confronted by the community. Active participation during ‘Daan Utsav’ also called Joy of Giving with zest. We have recorded several beneficiaries supporting the programme under Alumni Network by giving monetary contributions once they become capable financially, or helping in improving the skills of local needy students.

Counselling and Placement Cell

With a vision to empower the youth to have skilled jobs and better employment opportunities, there germinated a seed within our Information Technology Centre. Udayan Care started its “Placement Cell” in 2015 to further enable our students from our IT centres to get a smooth transition into the professional world.

The placement cell was started with a desire to improve the employability skills. The placement cell aims to develop students as confident job seekers and potential candidates for companies through mock interviews as a part of career guidance and personality development.

The placement cell seeks to involve active partnership with BPOs, KPOs, Accounting Firm, Design Studio, Publication house, etc. where our students can be placed after the completion of the job specific IT courses like:- Graphic Designing, Diploma in Information Technology (DIT), & E-Accounting. At the same time, the corporate professionals (voluntarily) also provide capacity building workshops to our IT students to give them exposure and boost up their confidence level.

During the pandemic, the placement team worked hard to engage beneficiaries with jobs, since the unlock process announced we have started dealing with employers actively to ensure placement of our students.

During the period 2020-21, Our 448 students completed their training in job specific trades, we got connected with 14 new employers and 293 students got placed in relevant jobs.

Our centres at a glance

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Success Stories

Usha – Student

Udayan Care believes in collaborative efforts towards underserved community upliftment, in the year 2020 many students got connected with us through an NGO called Books for All, this organization is immensely working to provide education to those students who are dropouts or cannot pursue their further studies due to financial crisis. One of the brilliant girls named Usha started coming to our Bhangel IT Centre to learn computers. She grew up in Sadar Sarai colony. Her father is working as a laborer to raise his family but he didn't earn enough to bear the educational expenses of his children. Since childhood she has been passionate towards studies, post which she intended to do a job in the field of computer.

Today, Usha has completed a 4 months Diploma in Information Technology (DIT) course from Udayan Care Computer Learning Centre (Bhangel) and has got placed in a hospital called "Family Hospital" as data entry operator in their billing department with 9000 Rs salary per month. We wish her all the best for her future.

Employer’s quote

ADR Recruited many candidates from Udayan Care IT Centre and our experience was excellent because those candidates turned kohinoor's (diamond) for our company. They worked hard and played a vital role in our success.

We are thankful to all the candidates who are working with us and Udayan Care for their unconditional support.

~Shalini Tripathi (Director)- ADR Publications & Distributions Pvt. Ltd.

Capacity building of staff

We believe to ensure our programme should be updated as per industry trend and manpower requirement in IT - ITeS sector. To keep in mind “demand and supply” we organize frequent capacity building training sessions for the trainers and follow the Training of Trainers (ToT) module, this helps us to keep our curriculum updated to add quality during training of trainees.