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Empowering Schools Across Villages
Creating Impact for Students
IITH Rural Development Center founded in

2020

Who we are

Turning Rural Education IntoReal Employment.

Around Kandi, IIT Hyderabad's Rural Development Center saw the same gap repeat itself: capable young people finishing school with nowhere obvious to go. We were built in 2020 to close it, and built to be copied elsewhere.
WHERE WE BEGAN
A Rural Development Center Serving the Villages Next Door
What we Do

Build Skills, Confidence and a Route to Work

HOW WE WERE BUILT

Three Institutions Standing Behind One Foundation

7
Government Schools
6
Cillages Reached
5
Partner Colleges
1 Lakh
Learners by 2035
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Our Founding & Institutional Ecosystem

Next Bharat Skilling Foundation (NBSF) brings together the academic and community-development strengths of IIT Hyderabad and its Rural Development Centre, the industry and impact-investment perspective of Next Bharat Ventures, and the grassroots skilling experience of Deshpande Skilling. Together, they support NBSF’s mission to build pathways from education to skills, industry and dignified livelihoods.

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Who they are
 IIT Hyderabad is a leading academic and innovation institution, with the Rural Development Centre (RDC) extending its capabilities to surrounding rural communities.

What they bring
 Academic credibility, research, innovation, faculty and student engagement, infrastructure, and community connections.

Their role in NBSF
 RDC, IIT Hyderabad provides the institutional and academic ecosystem that helps anchor NBSF’s school, college and technical skilling pathways.

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Who they are
 Next Bharat Ventures is a Suzuki Motor Corporation initiative focused on supporting impact-driven entrepreneurship and opportunities for India’s emerging and underserved communities.

What they bring
 Industry perspective, entrepreneurship, ecosystem access, funding support and a long-term scale lens.

Their role in NBSF
 Next Bharat Ventures helps strengthen the connection between skilling, industry needs, and entrepreneurship and future livelihood opportunities.

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Who they are
 Deshpande Skilling, part of Deshpande Educational Trust, has extensive experience in rural youth skilling, employability and community-based education.

What they bring
 Proven skilling models, curriculum, training methodologies, assessments, placement support and grassroots implementation experience.

Their role in NBSF
 As a knowledge partner, Deshpande Skilling supports programme design, delivery capability, assessments and employability pathways for NBSF learners.

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Our Vision

A future where every young person, especially from rural and semi-urban communities, has equitable access to quality learning, future-ready skills, confidence and opportunities to build a dignified and sustainable livelihood.

Our Mission

To design, deliver and scale inclusive school-to-work pathways that equip rural and semi-urban learners with foundational, employability, technical and entrepreneurial capabilities aligned with evolving industry and community needs, enabling meaningful employment, self-employment and sustainable livelihoods.
Our Values

We Prototype, Propagate and Proliferate

Prototype

We pilot, learn quickly and refine. The first phase builds three to four programmes proven with hundreds of learners before anything scales.

Propagate

Proven programmes are tested at far greater scale, moving from hundreds of learners to thousands across a widening group of institutions.

Proliferate

Working models are handed to universities and public systems, so what began in six villages can shape practice and policy nationally.

governance

Governance Sits at the Centre of How We Operate

We are a Section 8 nonprofit, and we treat that status as an obligation rather than a label. Compliance with MCA requirements, CSR regulation and sound accounting practice is built into how programmes are designed, funded and reported on.
Every partner, funder and community that works with us should be able to see where money goes and what it produces. We publish our registrations, audited accounts and programme reporting, and we welcome scrutiny of all three.
Our programmes are designed to align with national skilling frameworks so that the credentials learners earn carry weight beyond our own centres. Governance is what allows a small organisation to be trusted with a large ambition.
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