About
A skills ecosystem, not a training centre.
Gram Tarang Employability Training Services Pvt. Ltd. is a social entrepreneurial initiative in skill training working in largely underdeveloped regions of the country. We are committed to providing young people with high quality vocational education and skill training, relevant and recognised certifications, resulting in meaningful employment and successful careers in the organised sector.
- Enrolments since 2006
- 10.1 lakh
- 1,014,223 life-to-date
- Placement offers
- 80%
- Across all verticals
- Enrolled in 2026-27
- 1.19 lakh
- Against 263 in our first year
- Skill verticals
- 11
- From ITI trades to agriculture
The model
Three institutions, three jobs.
Policy and funding come from one place, the qualification from another, and delivery from a third. Keeping them separate is what lets a programme in Koraput carry the same certificate as one in Pune.
Policy and funding
MSDE, Government of India
- Seed funding from the National Skill Development Corporation
- Granted affiliation for NCVT ITIs and implementing PMKVY
- Flexi MoU for the Work Integrated ITI
- Third-party aggregator for the DGT apprenticeship programme
Qualifications and certification
Centurion University
- Provides the qualifications framework aligned to the National Skill Qualifications Framework
- Knowledge support through its schools of engineering, agriculture and management
- Accreditation and training of trainers for diploma level and above
- Assessment and certification
Delivery
Gram Tarang
- Implementing agency for all skill programmes across India
- Brings in industry partnerships for joint skill programmes and placements
- QP/NOS alignment with sector skill councils and skills integration with the university
- Mobilisation, centre setup, training, placement and post-placement support
Delivery models
Where the million came from.
10,14,223 enrolments since 2006, spread very unevenly across five ways of delivering training. The in-situ school programme is by far the largest, and the least visible.
- In-situ NSQF schools
- 61%
- 6,17,602
- Work-integrated training & apprenticeships
- 12%
- 1,24,048
- Short-term skilling
- 17%
- 1,72,978
- Agriculture skilling
- 9%
- 86,930
- Long-term TVET (ITI & diploma)
- 1%
- 12,665
The record
What that has produced.
Scale
- 1,014,223 enrolments life-to-date across eleven verticals
- 617,602 of those through in-situ NSQF programmes in schools
- 124,048 through work-integrated training and apprenticeships
Who we reach
- School dropouts, SC/ST households and first-generation earners
- In apparel, 70% of trainees are women and 80% are the first earner in their family
- Over 350 employees, including 200 trainers and 60 field mobilisation staff
What happens after
- 80% placement offers overall; 95% in industrial sewing, 85% in ITI trades
- In apparel, 42,102 of 52,628 trainees are in work, a 75% retention rate
- Household income up around 40% where we have measured it