NIS Sparta, Mumbai
NIS Sparta is Asia's leading training, education and learning solutions provider, and a Reliance ADA Group company.
Established in 1991, the company partners with organisations in achieving their mission critical goals through enhanced effectiveness of their people and processes, using proven methodologies. Besides a range of world-class bouquet programmes, NIS Sparta offers solutions for top management, middle management and supervisory level in the areas of leadership and management, personal effectiveness, sales maximization and customer retention.
In addition to a wealth of solutions, NIS Sparta partners leading international training services providers, such as: Huthwaite International, UK; Cross Knowledge, France; Eagle's Flight, Canada; Inscape Publishing Partners International ApS and CCi Surveys International, US, to offer globally validated training solutions to customers. In the professional education domain, the company offers programmes to enhance employability at each stage of a person's career. NIS Sparta Ltd caters to learning needs through initiatives such as NIS Academy and NIS L.I.V.E, offering knowledge and skill based programmes for professionals, students and first time employment seekers.
NIS Academy has facilitated the growth and development of over 55,000 students and aspirants, to date. NIS Sparta have created and are now implementing, a country wide program to enhance the employability of 10th Grade-plus rural job seekers. They aim to train 50,000 unemployed young rural people per year in the next 3 years, with a future target of 200,000.
READINGWISE are training their trainers as Facilitators for our MEMORYWISE, COMMUNICATIONSWISE and SPEAKINGWISE-English Programs. The READINGWISE Programs form part of their national Rural Employability Program.
Development Alternatives, New Delhi
DA (Development Alternatives) is a not-for-profit (NGO) based in New Delhi that has for 26 years been promoting sustainable national development in India to eradicate poverty. This means creating development projects that can be scaled up, are renewable, and result in jobs.
A key to DA’s success has been incubating low-cost innovative rural technologies, from village power generators using biomass, to literacy and capacity building.
DA has been the main implementation agency for Tara Akshar, ReadingWise’s flagship literacy program. DA, funded by DfID (UK Government’s development arm), Oxfam India, Telecentre.org ( Canadian + Swiss Governments + Microsoft), Suzlon Energy and others, has set up over 300 literacy centres across northern India and has made over 50,000 women literate in the last two years.