Veteran Second Innings Foundation

How did our journey start? It was in the late 1970’s, when a young boy who dreamt of wearing the uniform came to Mumbai for the first time from a r Read moreemote town of Gujarat. He had come to give his Airmen recruitment exam (to enter the Indian Air Force) at the Cotton Green Air Force Station. To his surprise he had cleared the exam, but destiny had some other plans for him. He was not able to join the Armed Forces due to family reasons. Years passed by and a few of his friends had joined the Indian Air Force. He kept talking to them about how life in the Armed Forces was and if at all there was any way a civilian could get associated with them. That is when he came across a department in the Ministry of Defense which was responsible for the Resettlement of Ex-servicemen. The government used to sponsor skilling courses for these retiring personnel to help them with their second career transitions. The institutes conducting these courses were mainly owned by retired officers at the time. This was another uphill battle but after years of perseverance and countless trips to Delhi, he was able to register his computer training institute and was given his first batch of 6 students (2 each from Indian Army, Indian Air Force and Indian Navy) in mid 1990’s. There was no looking back from there. Today, our Founder Mr Dhiraj Dharod over the last 2 decades has successfully worked with over 1,00,000 Soldiers in their career transition journeys. Over the years, he has conducted skilling programs in various sectors like Computers, Fire & Safety, Security, Warehousing, Self-Entrepreneurship, Solar not only for the core Armed Forces (Indian Army, Indian Air Force and Indian Navy) but also for the Paramilitary and Police Forces in multiple states. He has also conducted several programs for the dependents (wives and children of the Soldiers) and for Veer Naris as well. He has conducted skilling programs within several Indian Army Regiments and outside locations across the lengths and breadths of the country like Bombay Engineering Group (BEG) & Centre in Kirkee (Pune), Army Air Defense (AAD) in Gopalpur (Odisha), Artillery Centre (Nashik Road, Camp), Army Service Corps (ASC) Centre & Madras Engineering Group (MEG) & Centre in Bengaluru, 1 Signal Training Centre (1 STC), Jammu and Kashmir (JAK) Rif and Grenadiers Regimental Centre (GRC) in Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), EME Centre in Secunderabad, Mahar Regimental Centre (Sagar, MP), Maratha L.I Regimental Centre (Belgaum), Sikh L.I Regimental Centre and Rajput Regimental Centre (Fatehgarh), Brigade of the Guards Regimental Centre (Kamptee), Assam Regimental Centre and 58 Gorkha Training Centre in Shillong. He has also conducted several training programs for the Indian Navy at Navy Nagar, Mumbai and for Paramilitary forces like BSF in Gandhinagar, Coast Guard in Mumbai, CRPF in Trivandrum.