Lernern is the social edtech arm of Gram Tarang Technical Vocational Education & Training Pvt. Ltd (GTVET), a high-performance manpower staffing services & apprenticeships provider working towards its mission of making technology enabled learning, further education & skills available for all, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid.
Technology enabled learning,
education & skills for all.
1M Active Learners by 2025
Holistic career growth through skills-focused
education combined with life-skills
Over its ten-year journey, Gram Tarang has seen tremendous success with its unique ‘Work- Integrated Skill training & Apprenticeship’ (WISTA) model, addressing the limited higher education opportunities within the vocational training eco-system in India.
Another milestone in this journey, Lernern aims to take this unique model to the blended learning landscape, allowing eager learners from anywhere in the country to access education & training, specific to their job of choice.
Making learning systems affordable,
accessible and flexible in design
Retaining and building trust through
continuous and relentless commitment
Making sure than learners at the bottom of
pyramid are kept at top of the mind
Persisting in growth of student engagement
and working hard to help retention
Staying responsible towards society,
environment and community
Excellence through simplicity
in course design and delivery
We strive to increase inclusivity in education with a model ensuring 50% of students from scheduled castes & tribes, 40% women and special programs for the differently abled.
MA, MBA, PhD (Victoria, Melbourne) | 25 years experience in Oil industry, teaching, training, research and consultancy across Australia, China, Singapore & India | Founder & President of Centurion University of Technology & Management (Odisha & AP) | Co-founder of the Gram Tarang group of companies.
B.Sc. Physics (H) St Stephens College, MBA Finance, XIM B | 8 years of experience with GE & HP in Bangalore, Manchester & Amsterdam | 11 years as Co-founder & CEO of GTET, a widely recognized and acclaimed partner of National Skill Development Corporation | Successfully scaled up GTET to skill 300,000 youth since 2009 across 30+ centers
B.A. Economics (H) St Stephens College, Masters in Finance, Rotterdam | 18 years of experience with first 10 years in investment banking with Rothschild based out of London | 8 years of experience having come in as investor and board member of GTET, responsible for setting up Assam & NE operations of GTET and led strategy & growth for the company | Was the chief architect of the GTVET and was leading the operations until his untimely demise due to COVID 19
A Senior Evaluation Specialist at the International Initiative of Impact Evaluation (3ie), stationed in New Delhi, India. Since 2015, Bidisha has over ten years of experience conducting and managing impact evaluations assessing the effects of development programmes at scale. She has more than 10 years of experience designing and implementing impact evaluations in India. Before joining 3ie, Bidisha interned at United Nations University - World Institute of Development Economics Research at Helsinki. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.
Ruchi worked as a Marketing/Branding professional in financial services and organised Retail sector for about a decade including at Kotak and UTI. She pivoted into the Entrepreneurial role in Singapore as a Branding and Business Strategy consultant to SME’s in southeast Asia. She currently heads Asian Operations & Analytics for a fast-expanding Oil Brokering company. She is also an Active Angel investor and Mentor for early-stage companies. MBA in Marketing & Strategy, ISB Hyderabad, Strategic AI implementation Program, MIT
Lisa Jean-Mairet completed an M.A. in International Affairs at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) after gathering professional experience working with start-ups and for a social enterprise in India for a year. During her master she studied abroad at the National University of Singapore for a semester. After starting her career at UBS and completing the Bank’s Graduate Talent Program, during which she held a position in the Chief Investment Office Impact Investing team, she joined elea in June 2018.
Our strong industry network helps ensure
a placement rate of over 80% for vocational
trainees in 200 companies across the country
Cited as a best practice in a UN report on right to education
Model of livelihood-focused higher education documented as a case-study and quoted as a best practice
Quoted as a case -study in the report “Social Enterprise: A Global Outlook” in the Going Global Conference at Cape Town (2016)
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