Honeywell Hometown Solution India Foundation aims to provide quality education and skill development opportunities to students, especially school dropouts, college dropouts, and unemployed youth from the marginalized sections of the society and improve the quality of training infrastructure. There is a dire need to focus primarily on children as they hold the future of the country and shoulder the responsibility for better India.

The idea of rural development is a parochial one in colloquial language, however, with the evolution of time and awareness among people, focused holistic rural development has come into play. In India, with more than 70 percent of the population residing in rural communities, it is imperative to create a holistic environment with inclusive development of the communities with respect to Education, Health and Hygiene (WASH), Upskilling and empowerment, Energy, and environment etc.

HHSIF aims to coordinate and converge efforts that are needed to ensure the survival, protection, and empowerment of the girl child and to ensure prevention of gender-biased sex selective elimination, survival & protection of the girl child and act as a catalyst for education and participation of the girl child across India.

The advent of technological advancement, increase in population, economic activity and maximum utilization of resources has a hazardous impact on the environment. Rapid growth of population and unplanned urbanization results in acute shortage of water in Metros and surrounding areas. There is a dire need of interventions that not only help in conserving the natural resources but also to restore the damaged ecosystem and natural habitats.

ICT Academy is an initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the state Governments and Industries. ICT Academy is a not-for-profit society, the first of its kind pioneer venture under the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model that endeavours to train higher education teachers and students thereby exercising on developing the next generation teachers and industry-ready students.

ICT Academy was started to meet the skill requirements of the industry and generate more employment, especially in tier 2 and 3 towns, the rural parts of the country. The organization was formed with representations from the State Government of Tamil Nadu, leading companies in the ICT industry and the National Association of Software Services Companies (NASSCOM) in India.

With the training of teachers and students as the primary objective, ICT Academy has been working through a seven-pillar program in the areas of Faculty Development, Student Skill Development, Entrepreneurship Development, Youth Empowerment, Industry-Institute Interaction, Digital Empowerment and Research & Publications.

In the last 13 years, ICT Academy has strived in every aspect to provide a holistic service to every stakeholder of the education ecosystem in developing the next generation of the talent pool in India to make them industry-ready employees, innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

Through its various initiatives, ICT Academy has been part of strengthening India’s four important visions on Skill India, Digital India, Startup India, and Make in India