Vidya Poshak

Student Selection: Eligibility criteria includes A) Minimum 75% for Std X passed student and 70% for Std XII student pursuing higher education. B) Family income is

Their programs include:

• Nurture Merit Program: This program includes – (i) Financial Assistance: To provide financial assistance to meritorious students who cannot afford to continue their higher education due to financial constraints. (ii) Library Services: Such as books, internet access and career counselling sessions. (iii) Residential Bridge Camps: To help students develop soft skills through general, theme-based camps and employment readiness program. So far, Nurture Merit Program has benefitted 15,000+ students. 20,000+ students utilize the Library services every year. 100,000+ youth have been directly trained through programs like Residential Bridge Camps, Education Loan Awareness, C-DOSS (Center for Development Of Soft Skills) and English Language Improvement.
• Skill Training Program: This program aims at helping underprivileged graduate students to meet the demands of the industry through career guidance and systemic employment training. The training programs are intended to enhance their life and soft skills. Some of the modules covered are Personality development and Motivation, Communication and Presentation skills, Emotion management, Creativity, Employability skills (Interview skills), Analytical skills, English Speaking skills, Career guidance.
• Knowledge Resource Centers: Vidya Poshak offers free access to book banks and libraries to facilitate the entire student community with hands-on learning. They aim to create a platform which helps the youth to train themselves on various life skills and soft skills easily. There are six such Knowledge Resource Centers opened by Vidya Poshak till date. 
• Covid Emergency Support: With the support of HSBC, they have provided ration kits with one full month of materials required for to support a family, during the pandemic.These ration kits are worth INR 3000 each, and they have reached out to 500 families. This program impacted over 2500 beneficiaries and is worth 15 lakhs. They have also identified 200 single women led families of daily wagers and provided financial support of INR5000 each (a total of  10 Lakhs) with support from Individual donors & GiveIndia.