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Wadhwani Foundation drives campus employability in India via new partnership
The partnership gives millions of students access to job-readiness training, interview preparation, workplace skills and AI-enabled career learning.
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Staff Reporter - Thu, 20, Aug 2026
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The Wadhwani Foundation has taken a step toward scaling job readiness across Indian higher education through a partnership between its supported organizations.
The Skills Development Network Trust (SDN Trust), and cloud-based digital library platform Knimbus signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Sharda University, Noida, to integrate Wadhwani Foundation-backed flagship employability programs directly into digital campus libraries across India.
Through this integration, millions of students using Knimbus will gain seamless access to Wadhwani JobRise and Wadhwani JobConnect without needing separate platform registrations.
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The flagship programs deliver career-focused learning, practical workplace skills, interview preparation, and AI-enabled training tools to prepare students for real-world hiring standards. By embedding these resources into existing institutional infrastructure, the initiative directly advances the core Wadhwani Foundation mission: "Creating Jobs. Changing Lives."
Highlighting the vision behind the skilling drives, Santosh Kumar, VP of skilling at SDN Trust, emphasized that the collaboration provides a practical, direct pathway to transform student readiness into active employment opportunities at scale. “Through the Wadhwani JobReady Programme, we prepare learners with the skills employers actually need, and through our Micro-Entrepreneurship Programme, we help others build livelihoods of their own rather than wait for one.”
Tarun Arora, founder and CEO, Knimbus, said, “With Skills Development Network Trust, the millions of Knimbus logins can now also opens job-readiness and interview preparation programmes. No new system for the college, no new registration for the student.”
The rollout will proceed in phases across participating colleges, transforming traditional university libraries from passive repositories into dynamic career and skill hubs. With Knimbus currently powering digital access for over 600 institutions and two million authenticated users, the alliance represents a significant leap forward in delivering Wadhwani Foundation's workforce development solutions to youth nationwide.
The Wadhwani Foundation was founded in 2000 by renowned Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dr. Romesh Wadhwani to address a critical employability challenge faced by emerging economies.
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