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Director Rita Kapur (centre) addressing GSH students: Haldiram Snacks Pvt Ltd CSR initiative
GYANSHREE SKILL HUB

Gyanshree School, Noida – ranked among Delhi NCR’s Top 10 co-ed day
schools in the latest EW India School Rankings 2024-25 – was one of the
first institutions to act on a CBSE directive and establish a state-of-the-art
Gyanshree Skill Hub to provide vocational education & training to children and
youth in the age group 15-35 years

ited on a ten-acre green campus abutting (PMKVY) initiative directing 24,240 affiliated schools
the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, the countrywide to set up skills hubs on their campuses to
top-ranked Gyanshree School, Noida (GSN, actualize the mandate of the National Education Policy
estb.2014) has gone one better by establish- (NEP) 2020 which recommends integration of VET in
Sing an on-campus Gyanshree Skill Hub (GSH) school education. The Skill Hub programme envisages
to provide vocational education and training (VET) to utilization of existing infrastructure of schools to provide
children and youth in the 15-35 age group. Inaugurated “skill development training opportunities to in-school
in April last year, GSH graduated its first three batches class IX-XII students, school dropouts and out-of-educa-
of 147 students in two three-month programmes (multi- tion candidates” in the age group 15-35 years, after school
cuisine cooking and fashion technology) last year. All 147 hours.
graduates are currently employed in local businesses and GSN — ranked among Delhi NCR’s Top 10 co-ed day
industry. schools in the latest EducationWorld India School Rank-
HISTORY. In 2022, the Central Board of Secondary Educa- ings 2024-25 — was one of the first institutions to act on
tion (CBSE) announced the Skill Hubs scheme under the this directive and establish the state-of-the-art Gyanshree
Prime Minister's Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana Skill Hub funded by its parent-promoter, the Noida-

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