A project where corporate professionals on a 1 Year employer-sponsored sabbatical, 'Reach 4 India' across its 5500 taluks, with only one agenda: To implement self-sustainable Nation-building models (including PanIIT Projects). Reach 4 India makes corporate India go rural and local -for creating jobs & markets.

The Scenario

The 9% India growth story presents an ironical paradox – nearly every sector is facing huge human resources crunch on one side and there is rural under-employment, on the other side. Urban India is teeming with surplus financial capital and rural India is languishing with little business activity. It is these paradoxes that Reach 4 India seeks to bridge by making corporate India go rural and local – for creating jobs and markets and in doing so, use its own resources to ensure scalability.

The Proposition

Professionals on a one year employer sponsored sabbatical will be deployed across all the 5500 taluks of India to take these nation building intiatives to the local level. They would be adequately supported by volunteers (Ex-iitians/IAS, Retired professionals) and the IIT alumni network to provide governance, mentoring and other linkages with governments and Corporates. One project per PanIIT stream has been identified to go-to-market with:

Future Plans

Reach 4 India would follow 50 sevaks -500 sevak -5000 sevaks model to grow in 4 years: