TARAgyan started developing such courses keeping in mind three distinct and well-defined streams. The first is basic skills, which is designed for people who wish to become familiar with the computer and to use its applications in their day-to-day personal as well as professional lives. The second stream is for life skill courses, intended to inspire students to master skills that give them confidence and a winning edge in life. Practical English Learning Programme and Personality Development are a few of the courses that are available under this stream. The third stream is the job skills category. This stream builds up vocational skills and aids students in developing foundation skills that are required for a job. In the last couple of years, TARAgyan has laid more stress on job-oriented courses. A few of the such courses that TARAgyan has launched in the last couple of years include Desktop Publishing, Computer Teacher Training, Call Centre Training, Diploma in Financial Accounting, Diploma in Computer Application, etc.

The latter-most two courses have been recently deployed by TARAgyan. TARAhaat’s Diploma in Computer Application course is designed to equip students with a working knowledge of computers. It also enables students to develop proficiency in using desktop publishing software to create a variety of printed and electronic publications. This course also lays emphasis on installation of various s and maintenance of computers, whereas the Diploma in Financial Accounting is designed to help people without an accounting background to easily understand accounting concepts. It starts with basic accounting terms and goes on to explain bank reconciliation, trial balance and final accounts. Apart from this, it also helps students learn the world’s first multi-lingual Business Accounting and Inventory software-Tally 9. Tally 9 is an advanced software having the capability to work with almost all the Indian languages concurrently. This course also teaches students the basics of spreadsheet concepts, including creating worksheets, editing data, and building charts and graphs.

In addition to course development, TARAgyan has laid a lot of emphasis on instructor skill up gradation and certification. In order to provide quality education, TARAgyan not only develops courses but also imparts training to instructors. Delivering domain knowledge ensures that each instructor must be certified to deliver the course so as to ensure quality of delivery.

TARAgyan has deployed representatives (TARAgyan Coordinators) in its territory offices to ensure the quality of delivery of its courses. These Coordinators visit the TARAhaat centres regularly to ensure that the policies made by TARAgyan are followed at the grassroots level. These coordinators conduct instructor tests and take mock sessions of the instructors. They also guide the TARAhaat centres’ instructors to make lesson plans for course delivery. They send the reports to the head office on a weekly, fortnightly and monthly basis.

TARAgyan monitors and analyses the reports received by the territory offices. Based on the analyses, the TGCs are instructed to take the necessary steps as and when required. TARAgyan conducts surveys to identify the requirement of new courses in the field by keeping the competitors’ strategies in mind. Once the courses have been identified, they are developed by the TARAgyan team in-house or, in some cases, they also outsourced. TARAgyan also develops the support material for floating these courses vis-à-vis instructor guides, course structures, question papers and instructor training material.

TARAgyan is ascertaining the viability of new collaborations, by working on numerous fronts for placement tie-ups in order to strengthen its placement cell. The intention here is to identify and place the talent pool of bright young minds studying at the TARAhaat centres and get them good jobs. Various tie ups are in the pipeline, which have high potential for placement of students who are studying in TARAhaat courses. q