At NAMTECH, social impact is not an add on. It is embedded in how we design education, engage with industry, and prepare the next generation of skilled professionals.

India’s manufacturing and technology sectors are evolving rapidly. To ensure this growth is inclusive and sustainable, it is essential that access to advanced skills, quality education, and employment opportunities reaches those who have traditionally been left behind.

Through Creating Social Impact Together, NAMTECH invites corporates, foundations, and CSR partners to support initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes in education, employability, gender equity, and workforce readiness.

Areas to Support

NAMTECH currently has two high impact social initiatives where corporate support can create meaningful and lasting change.

Projects

Women in Manufacturing (WiM) Scholarship
ITI Industry 4.0 Skills Transformation Programme

Women in Manufacturing (WiM) Scholarship

Manufacturing is central to India’s long term economic vision under Viksit Bharat 2047. Yet women remain significantly underrepresented in technical and shop floor roles, with participation estimated at below 20%.

Financial barriers, limited access to advanced technical education, and persistent social constraints prevent many capable young women from entering and thriving in manufacturing careers. At the same time, industry faces an increasing demand for skilled talent in automation, robotics, digital manufacturing, and Industry 4.0 technologies.

The Initiative

The Women in Manufacturing (WiM) Scholarship addresses both challenges by enabling deserving women to access advanced manufacturing education while strengthening India’s industry ready talent pipeline.

The program aims to:

Enable women to pursue advanced manufacturing & technology education

Increase female participation in high growth technical roles

Build a diverse and future ready manufacturing workforce

Support long term employability and economic independence

By investing in women engineers today, we contribute to a more inclusive, competitive, and resilient manufacturing ecosystem.

The WiM Scholarship supports:

SDG 4

Quality Education through expanded access to advanced technical learning

SDG 5

Gender Equality by increasing women’s representation in manufacturing

SDG 8

Decent Work and Economic Growth by enabling skilled, stable employment

For corporate partners, the initiative strengthens ESG commitments while contributing to a gender diverse, industry aligned talent pipeline.

ITI Industry 4.0 Skills Transformation Programme

India trains nearly 2 million students annually across approximately 15,000 Industrial Training Institutes. Despite this scale, fewer than 40% secure employment aligned with their training, and many begin their careers with limited earning potential.

Outdated curricula, minimal exposure to automation and robotics, and weak industry linkage restrict ITI graduates, particularly those from rural and semi urban communities, from accessing future ready manufacturing roles.

As India accelerates its manufacturing ambitions, closing this skills gap is both a social and economic necessity.

The Initiative

NAMTECH’s ITI Outreach Programme modernises Government ITIs in the Mehsana cluster of Gujarat through a scalable Hub& Spoke model, delivering hands on, Industry 4.0 aligned training.

Key elements of the programme include:

Smart Manufacturing Labs at 5 Hub ITIs

10 Spoke ITIs connected through shared infrastructure

Mobile Lab on Wheels units to extend reach

500 hours of hybrid training per student over 10 months

Industry aligned curriculum and certification

Faculty upskilling through Training of Trainers

Direct placement facilitation

Strong Institutional Foundation

The capital expenditure required to establish state of the art Industry 4.0 Smart Labs across the 5 Hub ITIs has been supported by ICICI Foundation. This ensures that the physical infrastructure and advanced lab facilities are already in place.

How You Can Contribute

NAMTECH actively welcomes CSR funding, grants, and philanthropic donations from corporates and foundations committed to education, skills development, and social inclusion.