There are four projects in formative stages:

(A) Maharashtra: ITI (Aundh), Pune....Status: project team formed. Initial stages of engagement.

(B) Gujarat: Surat...Status: project team formed.

(C) AP: Hyderabad.........Status: project team formed.

(D) Karnataka: Bangalore....Status: project team being formed.

The program launch team wants to support the team to start the pilot project(s) as soon as possible.  Right now there are four possibilities where we could get a foot in the door and start work on the ground actually working with the ITIs. These opportunities are as follows:

(a) North Zone: Solan ITI - one of our industrialist advisors is on the Institute Management Committe (IMC). We can start work through him immediately.

(b) West Zone:  We have support from the Maarashtra govt to start work at any of the 700 odd ITIs in Maharashtra as soon as we want.

(c) South Zone: IIT/M '70 batch (Mr.N.T. Nathan ) and an NGO in Chennai have done some good work in supporting a school in a village in Tamil Nadu with the support of IITians around the world. They have expressed interest in joining our effort and they want to adopt an ITI in Ambattur to start this exercise.
(d) East Zone: -