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Computer Aided Learning and Digital Literacy as Life Skill

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Student's Baseline Testing

Inorder to understand the educational base of the students, baseline tests are conducted through the Computer Aided Learning program and Digital Literacy as Life Skill program. In the month of July 2018, 'Base Line Tests' were organized in schools in various cities of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh,Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Base line test is conducted twice in an academic year, for 1st to 10th standard students, before executing the program. From each school at least 20 percent of boys and girls in a class are selected for 'Base Line Testing'. There are written tests for rst and second grade students while the third to tenth grade students have both written and practical tests. Through base line testing, every student is given the opportunity to improve his or her educational ability by given personal attention.

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States No. of schools No. of students

Maharashtra

Gujarat

Haryana

Rajasthan

Andhra Pradesh

Tamilnadu

Keral

Total

579

10

24

36

41

20

12

722

38252

497

1143

4598

1463

485

345

46783

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8 new schools across Thane and Navi Mumbai to benet from CAL and DLLS

Computer Aided Learning and Digital Literacy as Life Skill program has been started in 8 schools in Thane and Navi Mumbai by Pratham InfoTech Foundation, Rotary Club of Navi Mumbai and Rotary Club of Cupertino. 3,000 students will benet from this. Navi Mumbai Mayor, Jayantrao Sutar inaugurated the computer center of Juinagar Convent School in Nerul. “The students coming to school are from middle class families. Some of these students do not have computers at home. Pratham InfoTech Foundation and Rotary Club of Navi Mumbai are doing great work by providing computer e d u c a t i o n t o t h e s e

students. They have my full support”, said the Mayor. Sunil Sinalkar, Director of Juinagar Convent School, said, "The CAL and DLLS program provides quality computer education and that too at a very reasonable fee”. The students in these schools will soon be learning through projects and video based study.

Global Impact Day- Theme- Physical Literacy

Physical tness is considered to be an important aspect when it comes to assessing a child’s health. Pratham InfoTech Foundation and WNS Cares Foundation organised a series of round based events around the theme of ‘Physical Literacy’ to celebrate the G l o b a l I m p a c t D a y . T h e competition took place in groups for the students of 1st to 9th standard studying in schools across

Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Nashik and Gurugram. WNS Cares Foundation trained the Sancharaks and Physical Training teachers. In the rst round of the competition, students 55,257participated in the competition from schools. As part of 156this, students were taught yoga, and made aware about the importance of consuming nutritious food, participating in sports and how to care about your body. The trainers also spoke about how physical health contributes towards academic success, mental health, psychological well being and an overall healthy life. This competition will be held in ve phases.

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Coding in Karnataka

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Pratham InfoTech Foundation and SAPAriba, through the Code Unnati Program, want to provide a platform for the underprivileged children of the society, enabling them to develop critical and logical thinking skills through coding. The Code Unnati program was inaugurated on September 19, 2018 in Bangalore city of Karnataka. This program will be started in four cities of Karnataka namely, Bengaluru, Mangalore, Udupi and Mysore. 50,000 students from class 5 to 10 in 300 schools will learn coding. An informative ‘Teachers Handbook’ was put together and this was launched too.The launch was followed by a 5 day Master Trainer’s Training for the 16 master trainers from Bangalore, Mangalore, Mysore and Udupi. The training covered concepts of

Scratch, HTML and SAP Build Me. Scratch is a graphical programming language and is often used in teaching coding, computer science, and computational thinking. Web designers build web pages using HTML tags that dene the content. Most websites include HTML coding that denes how each page will appear in a browser. While SAP Build Me, is an integrated cloud based solution constructed to design and prototype apps. This set the beginning of the 1 year project. The next step would be mobilization of 300 schools across

the 4 locations and training 500-600 school computer instructors. Director of Pratham InfoTech Foundation- Prem Yadav, Program Head- Roopa Billava, Vice President of SAP Ariba- Debashish Banerjee and Roma Bhat from SAP Ariba along with the SAP Ariba and PIF team were present.

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Expansions and Renewals

In the year 2017-18, Greater Mumbai Municipal Education Department, Pratham InfoTech Foundation and DMart started the CAL and DLLS program in 77 municipal school of 24 centers thus catering to 24,900 students. This year, 2018-19, the scope of the computer program has increased and students from Navi Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli, Mira-Bhayandar, Panvel Municipal Schools including Mumbai will be part of the computer education program. 53,000 students from 154 schools of 48 centers will benet from the CAL and DLLS Program.A training was conducted for the newly appointed sancharaks from 4th to 7th July 2018 at Shivsrishti school in Kurla and Navi Mumbai Municipal School at Nerul. 41 sancharaks from Mumbai and 53 from Navi Mumbai were present for the training. The training focused on the foundation course.

In the year 2017-18, Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited, Pratham InfoTech Foundation and Rajasthan Government, catered to students from computer centers, providing 3,300 34them with the CAL and DLLS program. Along with this, youths were trained from 562 3Community Information Training Centers.In the year 2018-19, this partnership for the program in Kota was extended. students from 508136 computer centers, from 1st to 10th standard will be part of the CAL and DLLS program. Also youth will be trained from Community Information Training Centers.400 2A training was conducted for the sancharaks from 2nd July to 6th July in Kota.

Pratham InfoTech Foundation and China Light Power had started the Computer Aided Learning and Digital Literacy as Life Skill Program in Jhajjar in 2017. In 2018-19, the partnership for the program was extended and will continue to run in 2 government schools and 1community center where youth are trained in vocational courses. A total of 300 students and youth will be e educated through the programs this year. A training was conducted for the sancharaks.

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Workshop and Training

Computer Workshop for art and craft teachers in BMC Schools

In the year 2017-18, 100 work experience teachers from 50 municipal school buildings were given a foundation course training and asked to teach computers to their class students. This was a pilot program. It was observed that these teachers did a good job at taking these classes and so the program grew.This year, the program was taken a step ahead. From the 30th of July to 1st August, 90 school teachers were trained in the CAL and DLLS program content. The teachers were also trained on how to make their lessons interesting through use of various educational software based on school subjects that focus on important competencies. The teachers did many projects on their laptop and thus learned a lot from the workshop. This 3 day workshop was held in Bholevada Municipal School, Parel.Kiran Hingonekar- Director of Greater Mumbai Municipal Education Department, Vivek Kayande of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Prem Yadav- Director of Pratham InfoTech Foundation, Roopa Billava- Program Head, Smita Pednekar- Resource Person and others were present.

‘Digital Teacher’ workshop for Zilla Parishad school teachers in Washala

Pratham InfoTech Foundation, Thane Zilla Parishad and BPCL together run the CAL and DLLS Program in Washala. In the year 2017-18, 27 school teachers of the 20 Zil la Parishad schools were given a foundation course training. This year, on the 21st and 22nd September, the same 27 school

teachers were trained in the CAL and DLLS program content. They were taught through projects, activities and videos. The workshop was an orientation about, who a ‘Digital Teacher’ is, his\her roles and responsibilities and much more. This was done with an aim to make the ‘Digital Teacher’ capable and armed with skills required to take the program ahead. This approach has been approved by the Block Education Ofcer too.

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Sancharak Training- Second Phase

1st semester, 2nd phase sancharak training was held in this quarter. 695 sancharaks f rom Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal were part of this training program. The training focused on 1st to 8th standard syllabus for that term. It was a interactive and productive period for all. The sancharaks had a great experience and are ready to go back to their students with brighter and enriched minds lled with enthusiasm.

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Studying in class 6, Ranjeet Vibhute, lives with his parents and elder brother. His father works at the CEAT Tyre company and mother works as a nanny. They earn a monthly income of Rs 10,500 /-The rst time Ranjeet came across a computer was at his school. His teacher held his hand and taught him to use the mouse. It was in this computer class that he was taught about computers, its use, parts and many more concepts through video based learning. He wrote many essays using MS Word. In the process of writing in eng l i sh , he improved h i s vocabulary. He also made a lot of p i c t u r e s u s i n g M S P a i n t application. Ranjeet also enjoys playing different educational games using Jigar software.

Ranjeet does not have a computer at home. His friend has a computer and so Ranjeet goes to his friend’s place to practice each day. He loves playing the piano and uploads videos on his YouTube channel. He also teaches his mother how to use his father’s smart phone to watch her favourite TV shows. Ranjeet hopes to be a software engineer some day.

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Miko Robo distribution to the winners of science exhibition

28th February is celebrated as science day each year. A science exhibition is organized every year by Pratham InfoTech Foundation and WNS Cares Foundation to celebrate this day. PIF organised a science exhibition in 79 schools and 49 community centers in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune and Nashik. Model based projects were made by students with the help of their teachers on the theme- 'Environment'.1100 students from 29 schools in 11 centers from Mumbai, 650 students from 18 schools in 13 centers from Navi Mumbai and 1100 students from 32 schools in 22 centers from Nashik were all part of this science exhibition. Piyush Verma from Harsh Public School, Mumbai won the prize for his project on Rainwater Harvesting. Vedika Mahale from Jeju school, Nashik won the prize for her project on Pollution. Both the students were honored with Miko Robo by the WNS Cares Foundation. Miko Robo will be useful to all students in the school.

School Teacher Training

The digital content used in The My e school program, namely videos, for standard 1 to 9 , Marathi medium, have been st th

prepared by the My School team with the help of school eteachers. These are three to ve minute videos. Teachers know how to teach the syllabus. But how to make their lessons more effective and get the students interested in the same, is done by the digital content that is provided by The My e school Program. In the academic year 2018-19 primary and secondary , 705school teachers were trained in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Nashik and Gurugram. In the training, teachers were taught about classroom management, how to use the e learning device provided and content. This training was given to them by the My e school Program team leaders. The teachers tried their hand at the device and loved the experience as well as the content. They look forward to using it in their classes and watch the students learn.

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Base line testing in the community- My e school

My e school Program has been started in various

communities across Mumbai, Pune and Nashik for st thstudents from 1 to 10 standard. Base line tests were

rdconducted from 23 August in these community

centers. 973 students from 41 community based My

e school centers, participated in these base line

tests. Base line tests give an overview of the

student's current academic status and helps the

program develop a strategy to improve that level.

Teachers Day celebrated by the students in the My e school communities

A teacher has a very high and different place in a

students life. A meaningful one indeed!

Teachers' Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm in

41 My e school community centers across Mumbai, Pune

and Nashik. One student from each center took the

place of their teacher and taught the class for the day! It

was a fun day for the teachers as well as for the class.

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Rita lives in Mahul village with her family. Her sister is a nurse and father works as a plumber. They earn an annual income of Rs. 60,000/- Rita had to go through a lot of difculties to complete her education and even had to leave her family and live in a hostel inorder to full her desire to study. Her father was not supportive of her interest to study further as no other girl in their family had done so. Rita took up small jobs and paid for her education and travel. With a lot of struggle and even more determination, Rita completed her M.A. In July of 2017, Rita joined Pratham InfoTech Foundation. She was part of the My e school program in Mahul. Here she was trained in teaching students from 1st to 10th standard using the program’s dig i ta l content and unique teaching methodology. This was something new and she enjoyed every bit of it. Rita was very passionate about her work and did all she could to increase the student enrollment. In the process, her communication skills improved. She was more condent than she used to be and more importantly, increased her knowledge of the new technology. Rita has 49 students in her class. She wants to complete her M Phil and become a professor some day.

Rita Gudekar

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Saksham begins in new schools

An activity based learning program, namely Saksham has been started in 49 low income schools for the year 2018-19, after conducting a survey of 55 to 60 low-income schools. 120 to 130 primary and secondary school teachers, teaching math, english and science subjects as well as 70 to 80 school leaders (School Directors, Supervisors, Headmasters and Senior Teachers) have been selected for the workshop. The program was inaugurated at the Bharat Petroleum ofce on August 10, 2018. Prem Yadav, Director of Pratham InfoTech Foundation, Program head Roopa Billava, Bharat Petroleum's CSR. Senior Manager Vivek Kyande and CSR General Manager E, Rosario were present.

Workshop for School Teachers

On August 10, 2018, an English language workshop was conducted for primary school teachers from schools and on 23rd August 28 212018, for upper primary school teachers of schools.34 28 Students will be encouraged to learn English through educational games. It has been observed that students enjoy learning with the help of various activities and projects. Various concepts in the English language and grammar were taught during the teacher workshop. The workshop instructor taught the teachers many new interesting methods of teaching their students. Most of the teachers had a great rst time experience in

th th ththis activity based workshop. Similarly on the 4 , 6 and 7 of September, a workshop on math, classroom management and a workshop specially for school heads was conducted. 119 teachers and heads from 93 schools participated in this workshop. Students can be taught effectively through role play too. This was explained to the teachers. They were also taught about various methods in which they can make math easy and fun for the students who nd it difcult and boring. Most importantly, the topic of how to handle difcult students while maintaining the class discipline was addressed. The school heads were spoken to, about how to strike the right balance between looking after administration and the education of the students and how to maintain a productive relation with their staff. Thus the school heads and teachers learned a lot from the workshop.

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Teachers Day celebration

Teachers day was celebrated in a unique way this year. Students conducted training sessions for their teachers based on the same topics and content that was used during the Saksham School Teacher training workshops.

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India Digital Inclusion

Survey in Talasari

A baseline household survey was conducted in Talasari to understand the socio-economic, educational and health related background of the villagers. Prior to conducting the survey, a team of 38 members was formed and a two day training was given to them. They visited from door to door and conducted face to face interviews to understand the need of the community. During the survey, they reached out to more than 4500 households (30% household population) of Talasari, in the 10 Gram panchayats that were selected within a span of 20 days. This survey was in partnership with Pratham InfoTech Foundation, SAP India and LTPCT. The survey started

th thon 25 July 2018 and was completed on 16 August 2018. On the basis of these samples, the organizations will try to provide the services and facilities that the government offers at nearby places.

Workshop: Need of Digital literacy to Self Help Groups

thA workshop on digital literacy was held on 25 September 2018, at Mahul CIT Centre. The motto behind organizing the workshop was to provide exposure regarding social media and ecommerce to all the 20 women who run their own self help groups. The training focused on use of computer, internet and different applications which can help them create a wider reach for their products. The workshop was conducted by Ms. Rakhi Mali and Ms. Reshma Jamadar in partnership with Pratham InfoTech Foundation and BPCL.

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Workshop: e-Tax return

Importance of ling tax return was discussed in a two day workshop

that had been organized for our fellows (teachers) and Community

Connectors, to spread awareness about e-tax return. The workshop th st

took place on the 4 and 21 of August at Koperkhairane and Kurla

ofce respectively. Practical demonstrations and practice was

supervised by Mr. Nilesh Thakur.

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Digital Sakshar Learning App at the mbillionth Awards South Asia 2018

Out of more than 300 entries in 10

different categories, the Digital Sakshar

free learning app was shortlisted under

“Learning and Education” category.

This category recognizes the use of

mobile applications that empower the

education sector and serve the needs of

learners to acquire knowledge and skills.

The aim is to identi fy and honor

applications that try to transform schools,

universities and other educational

institutions through interactive, personalized and distributed learning resources, address the

learning needs of all, and create active e-Learning communities.

The Digital Sakshar Learning App is a free learning app that has 50+ courses and 3000+ videos

at the moment. These are based on 4 categories- Academic, Business, Design Tool and

Technology. Academic courses focus on 1 to 10 standard, Maharashtra Board syllabus in

Marathi. The rest of the content is available in Hindi and English as well. The app is freely

available on google play and iOS2.

Training of Trainers (ToT) for Digital Sakshar course conducted in Talasari

Certicate Distribution ceremonies

Digital Sakshar certicate distribution ceremony was held for the th st

candidates of batch 8, on 29 August and 31 August 2018 at Thane and Dadar. More than 3,220 candidates successfully completed this course from 61 centers across Western, Central and Harbour suburbs of Mumbai. During the ceremony 584 candidates were present along with the management and operational team of Pratham InfoTech Foundation.

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Digital Sakshar training was conducted on 10th and 11th September 2018 in Talasari with the aim to deliver content evenly. The two days training was organized by Pratham InfoTech Foundation, which includes 25hrs syllabus, that covers basics of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, internet, social media tools, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Training was delivered by Ms. Rakhi Mali (Master Trainer, PIF) and 20 trainers were present for the training. These trainers are responsible to deliver the content in 10 villages in Talasari from October 2018.

Job Fair

st thOut of 1,315 job seekers 1,200 were present at the Job fair organized between 21 July to 18 August 2018 at 6 different locations across Mumbai. 48 companies participated, 4372 rounds of interviews took place and 883 candidates got selected.

My name is Soya Bhisti. I am a resident of Bhartiya Nagar Kurla. My

husband works on the tenders issue by BMC. We have 2 children.

I am a graduate, but after marriage and the children, I decided to

be a stay at home mom. Now after all these years, I am ready to

get back to work life. I got to know about the Digital Sakshar Course

and got myself enrolled in it. I wanted to see myself employed.

Within two months of this course, I restored condence that I had

lost over a period of time. I began communicating with different

people, I understood team work, grooming and interviews skills

along with computer knowledge. All these skills helped me a lot

during the placement drive, where I got selected in TATA AIA as a back ofce assistant.

Here I will be responsible to track a record of customers over a call and maintain their data

base. I will be paid Rs. 25,000/- each month. It makes me so happy that now I too will help

my family nancially. I would recommend this course to every house wife who is looking for

a second inning in their carrier.

I would like to thank Pratham InfoTech Foundation and LTI for giving me this opportunity.

-Soya Bhisti

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Book on Warli art will help artists to learn the skills required for Warli painting

“Tarpa Chitrasamwad” a book on world famous tribal “Warli” art

was launched by Anand Jadhav (Child Development Ofcer,

Talasari). Pratham InfoTech Foundation has taken this initiative to

create content and launched it in a book format that helps

young artists adapt the skills by reading the book. The event took th

place on 24 July 2018 at Panchayat Samiti Talasari. During the

event, Mr. Prem Yadav (Director Pratham InfoTech Foundation),

Mr. Ram Deshpande and Mr. Sarvesh Phatak from Larsen &

Toubro Public Charitable Trust, Ms. Shruti Limaye (Manager IDI

Program), Mr. Gopinath Waghmare (Ex Dean; JJ School of Art

and Resource Person for Warli Art centre Talasari) Mr. Vishwas

Shinde (Project Coordinator DEF), Mr. Narayan Hakale (Project

Head PEF), Ms. Bhagyashree Lodha (Program Associate) and

Santosh Dodhi (Program Coordinator) were present. This book will

be available soon.

Certicate distribution at Talasari

Certicate distribution ceremony for students thof warli art was held on 24 July 2018 at

Panchayat Samiti hall Talasari. Certicates

were given to students of 3 batches who

have successfully completed the 3 month

warli art training from our Talasari centre. A

total of 51 students received certicates from

our guest of Honor Anand Jadhav (Child

Development Ofcer, Talasari).

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32 students got a scholarship under MCVC

Admission process for vocational course under Minimum Competency Vocational Course

(MCVC) was done in July 2018- September 2018. A total of 32 students from Vashi Naka to

Mahul took admission in various courses like Engineering and Technology, Business and Commerce, Catering and Food Technology, Paramedical and Fishery in 4 different vocational colleges. This scholarship program is supported by Pratham InfoTech Foundation and BPCL.

I am Aarti Vilas Gharat, a resident of Mahul Village. There are 4

members in my family and my father is the only earning member. My

reason behind joining the Digital Sakshar course is to see myself

employable and support my family nancially. I completed both

Digital Sakshar Course and Tally from Mahul CIT centre and soon after

completing the course, I got a job in SBFC as a Sales Manager. I am

responsible for selling and marketing low interest gold loans to

customers. I visit from door to door and setup a road side counter to

let people know of different schemes under SBFC. I have to document my work, and thanks

to Digital Sakshar, I am using spreadsheet, drafting emails and using different soft skills that

had been taught to us during the course. I am thankful to Pratham InfoTech Foundation and

BPCL for everything.

-Aarti Vilas Gharat

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All set to oat their business

40 women from Mahul village were trained in advance

beautician skills by Pratham InfoTech Foundation in

partnership with BPCL and Anil Asrani Vocational

Institute. This batch was started from 1 March 2018 to st31 July 2018. The main motive is to provide employable

skills to all the women, so that they can start their own

business and be self sustained. During the course,

theoretical knowledge and practical exposure was

given. Students were briefed about market research, product availability and client services.

I am Asha Rahul Patel. I live in Ambada village near Mahul. I wanted to

pursue something which benets me professionally and soon heard of a

beautician course that was going to begin especially for Mahul villagers. I

decided to pursue this course because I always had an interest in this

sector. I would also be able to manage my home and work simultaneously

after I join somewhere. I started 6 months ago with Basic Beautician course

in which we practiced waxing, head massage, facial, hair cutting and bridal makeup. After

the completion of the basic course, we were also offered an advanced level course too.

I have gained a lot of theoretical and practical knowledge. I thank Pratham InfoTech

Foundation, BPCL and also our teacher Asha Bodake Ma’am for giving us all the exposure

needed to do something in the eld. In future I wish to assist any beautician or if I get the

needed funds, I would love to set up my own beauty parlor.

-Asha Rahul Patel

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“Way back in 2016, I had been told that there are few women from

Mahul Village who need to be trained professionally to be

beauticians. The motive was to create an employment opportunity

for them. I trained many girls between the age group of 18 to 25.

Training these women, who are mostly housewives seemed like a big

challenge and I accepted it as an opportunity to do something good.

We started our rst batch in 2016 with 32 participants. Some of these

women have now started their home based business.

A few women showed an interest to set up a full edged business, and for this they need to

have a deeper understanding of concepts with a polished and advanced skill set. To make

this possible, we have started an advance course in which we have not only covered

advance level makeup, but we also teach them about parlour maintenance, purchasing

products, charges and margins. All this information will certainly help these women to setup

their business in today's competitive market. I want to thank Pratham InfoTech Foundation

and BPCL for this social initiative which will help these women to become entrepreneurs in

the near future.

-Asha Bodake

Pratham InfoTech Foundation

78/A Kamgar Nagar, S.G. Barve Marg, Kurla

(East),Mumbai 400 024. Maharashtra, India

Phone +91(22)-2522 0589

Email: info@pif.org.in