Monday 12 September 2011

Saksham Program Overview

Saksham provides training and livelihood opportunities to disadvantaged youth residing in BPL rural areas. Many rural youth migrate to urban areas to see new positions.  Unfortunately, they do not have access to information, knowhow or training to appropriately operate in urban life and pursue these employment opportunities. Saksham prepares rural youth with vocational and life skill sets and will identify and secure urban-based employment positions

DRA Program Overview


DRA stands for Debt Recovery Agent.The Debt Recovery sector is growing by leaps and bounds every year and there is acute shortage of Certified DRAs in the country.
Reserve Bank has requested the Indian Banks Association to formulate, in consultation with Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF), a certificate course for Direct Sales Agents / Direct Marketing Agents / Debt Recovery Agents with minimum 100 hours of training.
It is also stipulated by RBI that banks should ensure that all their Recovery Agents undergo this training and obtain the certificate from IIBF.
The service providers engaged by banks should also employ only such personnel who have undergone the above training and obtained the certificate from the IIBF. Empower PragatiVocational & Staffing Pvt. Ltd. has been accredited by IIBF to conduct DRA training at all its centers.
Training of DSA/DMA/Recovery Agents
The training will primarily focus on skill development and improvement of functional competencies and the 100 hours will be distributed in the following ratio:-
Functional Competencies- Focus will be on legal, procedural and operational aspects of banking more particularly the collection function .

Soft Skills development- Focus will be on Personal effectiveness and inter personal behaviour .
The course Improves employability and Career enhancement for the certified DRAs.

Rural BPO Program Overview


Rural India's spend on consumer goods is between 40 to 60%, while their contribution to GDP is less than 30%. There are over 100 million skilled rural youth, who are unemployed. To provide employment to the rural youth and to reduce migration to urban areas; Empower Pragati is setting up Rural BPOs. This will help Corporates in outsourcing their key processes to us with a cost benefit and without compromising on the quality of their deliverables. This would also help them in meeting their 'Corporate Social Responsibility'.
Our services include: Data entry, Data processing, Data conversion, Document scanning, Order processing, Web research, Inbound and Outbound call center.