Date:19/04/2007 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/04/19/stories/2007041902482100.htm

Back Livelihood School in Hyderabad

G Naga Sridhar

Hyderabad April 18 Basix, a group of financial services and technical assistance companies, launched the Livelihood School here on Wednesday to focus on the challenges of livelihood promotion.

Already present in 29 places across the country, the school will work towards building a knowledge base on livelihood promotion besides training development practitioners on the issue.

"The school has become an independent society from today with nine eminent academicians and practitioners on its Board," Mr Sankar Datta, Dean, Livelihood School said in a release issued here.

FUTURE PLANS

Over the next five years, it would build livelihood knowledge with a full-time faculty of 15 and an extended faculty of 60. About 100 case studies would be developed besides training about 5,000 livelihood practitioners, he added. It has lined up Rs 25 crore as budget for the next five years.

During its pilot stage in the last three years, the Livelihood School conducted 59 programmes in 29 places in India with 1,540 participants drawn from non-governmental organisations, government development agencies and the corporate sector, the release added.