RISE FOR A MORE EQUAL WORLD 75 EMPOWERING WOMEN India's women are the co-authors of its economic growth story. Addressing the concerning decline in the female labour force participation rate has thus become a top national priority. The Mahindra Group aims to play a pivotal role in empowering women economically by offering vital skills training and creating job opportunities across various sectors. The women experienced different skilling interventions, as detailed below: Since its inception, the women's empowerment programme at Mahindra Group has positively influenced 7,65,107 women EMPLOYABILITY SKILLING The Group's flagship employability skills program, Mahindra Pride Classrooms (MPC), was launched as a youth skilling initiative inclusive of boys and has now evolved into an all-women program to support the nation's priority of increasing women's labour force participation in the formal economy. Since its inception, the Program has empowered 8,98,846 youth with employability skills. Mahindra Pride Classrooms offer 40-120 hour training modules led by expert trainers for final-year female students in Government and Governmentaided Colleges, ITIs, and Polytechnic Institutes across India. The modules include digital literacy and life skills that aim to make the candidates more “jobready” and employable. Assessments are a key part of the program design and successful candidates are provided with certification at the end of the course. In F24, the Mahindra Group supported 1,70,038 women studying in 1,711 colleges. Of these, 1,29,227 women were trained with support provided by M&M. An additional 9,824 women underwent employability skills training through another project under this initiative with support provided by M&M. DOMAIN SKILLING In response to the evolving needs of the workforce, our women's empowerment program also focuses on equipping women with domain-specific skills tailored to the automotive, IT, ITES/hospitality, healthcare, and apparel industries across 15 states. Through a comprehensive curriculum, participating women gain in-depth knowledge of industry practices, regulations, and technological advancements relevant to these sectors. Under this initiative, the Mahindra Group trained 17,550 women for domain skills. Of these 16,536 women were trained by M&M. IN F24 alone, the Mahindra Group supported the skilling of 2,28,540 women
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