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40% of IT workforce requires re-skilling in the coming five years: Vinay Pradhan

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min read

In the current age of layoffs across different sectors reskilling employees is becoming the need of the hour for India Inc to optimally utilize the talent. According to NASSCOM, the IT industry body, up to 40% of the individuals of the estimated 40 million workforces requires re-skilling in the coming 5 years. Hence, catering need ...

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Special education in India needs to be boosted

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

The Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) took a bold step, when it enrolled more than 2,000 children with disabilities in over 40 schools under their inclusive education project, in which students with disabilities were included in the same classroom with other students. Socially termed differently-abled children are still considered as those with ‘disabilities’. Undeniably, their educational, ...

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Growth and Future of the Fitness Business in India

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min read

The fitness industry in India is controlled at a variation point, with the high market division, amazing market potential and end-to-end overall growth. Several new business ideas are coming-up to disrupt this industry.The fitness sector in India has travelled a long journey from local ‘akhadas’ to wrestling now being a part of the international Olympics, ...

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?The Synopsis of Education System in India

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

As Malcolm X has rightly put, 'Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.'The best thing about education system in India is that it prepares the foundation of a child’s education very neatly by giving equal importance to the basics of all subjects in the ...

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Important Growth Factors of Beauty and Wellness Business

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

The Indian wellness industry is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12 per cent for the next five years to achieve a Rs 1,50,000 crore-turnover by 2019-20.According to a report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and EY consulting, titled "Value Added Service - Wellness ...

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Wellness Based Apps- The Future of Wellness industry

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min read

Wellness is a need in today’s time. It is something which is desired by all. The industry has been growing and is expected to become a trillion dollar industry in no time. The wellness industry is a multi dimensional industry and each of it dimension is achieving success due to the rising need to attain ...

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Mutual learning for better growth

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

When we talk of International brands, each time we find something distinctive in them. Just like many great Indian brands have taught a lot to the world, there are a lot of learnings from the international labels as well. It can be the introduction of an all new flavour in Indian market or a store ...

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Imbibing Artificial Intelligence in Education

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min read

For a society to be innovative, it is mandatory to come out of the fragmented Education system. A society needs to go from just studying via books to a more hands-on approach and look to solve real-world problems from scratch.While AI may not ever be able to truly replace human grading, it’s getting pretty close.Talking ...

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Combating Challenges With Efforts

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

Be it any Industry, big or small, challenges surely come with success. Similarly it applies to the hospitality industry. Franchising has seen fast development in the hotel industry with the globalization of hotel chains. Many big Indian and even international hotel chains in India have expanded fast via this model. Hospitality Industry is taking care ...

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The Changes in Teacher Training are Part of India’s Efforts to Improve the Quality of its Education.

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

Change is difficult in any setting, but changing academic teaching appears to be especially tricky. Calls for change imply that the pedagogical approaches our own professors and mentors modeled and taught us might not be the best way to engage large numbers of diverse populations of undergraduates in our discipline.Focus on the Lack of Teacher ...

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