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Empowering Communities
PROVIDING SKILL FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
In the backdrop of rural India's tapestry, skill Swayamsiddha, and PG College of Nursing in
development emerges as a keystone of Bhilai, offering free boarding and lodging to
empowerment and progress. With limited learners. Similarly, centers like Kishori in
access to formal education and job opportunities, Rourkela, Shilpangan in Durgapur, and
communities often find themselves trapped in JHARCRAFT in Bokaro nurture skills ranging
cycles of poverty and stagnation. However, from handlooms to low-cost sanitary napkin
through strategic investments in skill training production. SAIL plays a pivotal role in
and capacity building, SAIL strives to breathe marketing the products manufactured at these
new life into these communities. Skill centers, ensuring the sustainability and
development not only equips individuals with prosperity of these ventures. By honing their
the tools necessary to thrive in today's craft in fields ranging from beautician courses to
competitive landscape but also fosters a sense technical training in sectors like electricity and
of self-reliance and confidence. A plethora of solar panel installation, individuals gain not just
skills and trades flourish within and around the employment opportunities but also the ability
SAIL steel plants and mines, transforming to carve their own path towards prosperity.
communities and fostering sustainable In the heart of rural India, where aspirations
livelihoods. From nursing and physiotherapy to often collide with limited opportunities, a silent
LMV driving and computer literacy, individuals revolution is underway, powered by the
embark on paths of learning and self-reliance. collective efforts of communities and corporate
Meanwhile, traditional crafts and modern social responsibility. SAIL, through its CSR
trades converge, encompassing activities such initiatives, is spearheading a movement that not
as mushroom cultivation, poultry farming, and only empowers individuals but also transforms
candle making. These endeavors thrive in entire communities, heralding a new era of self-
centers like Bhilai Ispat Kaushal Kutir, reliance and sustainable livelihoods.
SAIL Skilling Centres
Bhilai Ispat PG College of
Kaushal Kutir Jharcraft Nursing in Bhilai
Shilpangan
Swayamsiddha
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