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| Mahindra Pride Schools |
| The Mahindra Pride School (MPS) transforms the lives of youth from socially and economically disadvantaged communities by providing livelihood training that empowers them to seek employment. We give young people from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes access to training that enables them to secure jobs in sunshine industries. |
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Mahindra Pride School's philosophy
Empower socially and economically marginalised youth with livelihood training to make them employable based on their skills. |
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| MPS Pune |
The first Mahindra Pride School commenced on 23rd March 2007 in Pune. Since then, 15 batches with a total of 2,378 students from socially disadvantaged communities (Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Caste, Nomadic Tribes) have graduated from
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| The school provides the students with livelihood training in sunshine sectors like Hospitality, Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES - for BPOs & KPOs) and Customer Relationship Management. To further enhance their employability, all students are imparted mandatory training in English, Life Skills and Computer Applications. |
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| The highlight is that MPS has witnessed a 100% placement in lucrative jobs and a consistent increase in average monthly salary per batch from INR 4,500 in Batch 1 to INR 8,000 in Batch 15. |
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| The average salary ranges between INR 42,000 and INR 180,000 per annum and the highest salary so far has been INR 18,000/- per month. |
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| Highlights of the placement process include: |
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Significant increase in the number of campus interviews |
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Endorsement from employers who have previously recruited graduates from Mahindra Pride Schools. |
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| Over the years, some of the key recruiters at MPS have been: |
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Hospitality Management |
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McDonald's  Pizza Hut Café Coffee Day
Le Meridien - Pune
ITES - BPOs and KPOs |
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Bajaj Allianz Syntel Mphasis
Hardware Networking |
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Info Expert Micro Serve Systems Anon Solutions ACME
Sales / CRM |
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Westside Spinach Springtime Mphasis
Silver Jubilee Motors TRC Redwood Company
Tata Indicom Odyssey ITC Tata Serwizol
Syntel KPO DTDC Couriers Kingfisher Airlines |
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| MPS Chennai |
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The 2nd Mahindra Pride School is located in Alwar Peth, a posh locality in Chennai. A 7,000 sq. ft. bungalow has been taken on lease which is
a home to state-of-the-art facilities like furniture, computers and other equipment required for the school. The process of recruiting faculty
and administration staff is also complete. Road shows have been conducted, and the first batch of 75 students commenced on
February 15, 2011. |
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