Institutionalised Training, Empowerment and Advancement of the Marginalised (iTEAM)

Jerry through iCONGO also created and promoted iTEAM in partnership with the Anand Group and with USAID support to create industry-based jobs for the blue/grey collar workforce in association with CII, NASSCOM, RAI, FICCI, , Assocham, and other industry partners. The iTEAM initiative which was created to employ the disabled and war wounded, was expanded to create workforces for all industry sectors like retail, housekeeping, security, petrol pump attendants, facility managers, cab drivers, beauticians etc and later the iTEAM concept was adopted and adapted as Skill India.

Skill India that scaled up the iTEAM lighthouse project initiated with 2 million USD given by USAID has now trained and certified over 1.5 crore people for blue and grey collared jobs. Jerry has also worked with skilled labour like cab drivers, beauty and make-up specialists, security, housekeeping, facility management professionals and others to train them for entrepreneurial skills (many of these people have their independent practices and businesses today) with other life & soft skills.