new delhi mahindra group is setting up its fifth mahindra pride school mps in srinagar according to a press statement anand mahindra chairman of mahindra group announced that the aim of mpss will be to train and create a pool of one million employable youth by 2022 other mpss are located in pune chennai patna and chandigarh graduating 600 students annually from each city except chennai where the number is 800 mps srinagar will commence its first batch with the specific objective of helping the youth of jammu and kashmir channelize their energies productively these schools are established to help mainstream socially and economically disadvantaged youth through vocational education and training the aim is to make them employable in the organized private sector with over 85 of them coming from the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes the mps graduates students after intensive skill training in a range of specializations including retail sales hospitality and housekeeping and ites including bpo and kpo there is a larger need to appropriately skill massive numbers of unemployed indian youth for the burgeoning service sector where there is a huge demand for a skilled jobready workforce at the entry level the mahindra partners investment division is actively exploring options to significantly scale up the number of trained youth by evaluating further expansion of the pride school network through a social forprofit enterprise model said rajeev dubey president group hr and aftermarket sector mahindra mahindra the first mps was set up in march 2007 in pune and currently has 4503 alumni who have passed out over the previous five and a half years this school operates out of an independent building with modern infrastructure that includes a lab with 30 personal computers a simulated housekeeping and restaurant training setup classrooms with lcd projectors and a pa system other facilities include a canteen area where the 150 students from each batch are served a lunch on all days of the 3 months they spend in the campus the school also has a tv viewing room and a library as well as equipment for practical training on bpo voiceprocesses the mps is fully funded by the kc mahindra education trust with the investment per student ranging from rs 18000 to rs 20000 some of the premier organizations that regularly employ mps alumni across the country include cafe coffee day mcdonalds pizza hut hotel le meridien jw marriott group tcs dell computers tanishq fariyas resort hotel oakwood residency sodexo mphasis syntel wns bharti axa and tata business support services