Pankaj Dutta
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
More than 17 years across media, business and strategy. He built Y&Now on a straightforward conviction: skilling is what turns education into employability.
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LinkedInAbout Y&Now
Practical learningwith a clear purpose.
We help people and organisations build useful skills, grow with confidence, and stay ready for what comes next.
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- Solution areas
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- Audiences we serve
- ISO 9001:2015
- Quality management
Who we are
A learning brandbuilt aroundpractical outcomes.
We design programmes that make learners more job-ready, help teams perform better, and build organisational capability that holds up over time.
We work across corporate, community, industrial, institutional and learner settings — with the same method behind each one.
Why our work matters
The distance between learning something and doing it is still too wide. We help people build relevant skills, perform better in role, and move toward better opportunities with more confidence.
Credentials
Y&Now is a registered trademark associated with BroadArks Technology Private Limited. Our quality management practices follow ISO 9001:2015.
Our mission
To make practical learning easier to access, easier to apply, and more useful for real work.
Our vision
A future where more people can turn learning into opportunity, confidence and better work.
What we believe
Five beliefs behindevery programme.
They shape what we build, how we teach it, and how we judge whether it worked.
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Learning should feel useful
If a participant cannot say what it was for, it was not designed properly.
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Skills should move people forward
A certificate is a record. A capability is an outcome.
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Good training leads to real change
We design for what happens after the session, not during it.
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People learn best when the path is clear
Every programme should have a visible start, middle and next step.
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Confidence grows when learning meets the real world
Application is not the last stage. It is the point.
In practice
Assess, learn, apply, perform, improve — then start the next cycle with better evidence.
Track record
Six years,in order.
- 2020
First cohorts at CRISP, Bhopal
Plumbing, RAC and sheet-metal foundation courses run through the pandemic year, with Reliance Foundation support.
- 2021–22
Into machining and welding
CNC, welding and tractor-mechanic trades added with CRISP and GIZ — the start of our industrial workshop capability.
- 2022–23
Dealer networks and the North East
Automotive service training with ASDC, Veedol and IOCL across Indore and Pune, alongside enterprise programmes in Meghalaya.
- 2023–24
Defence and healthcare
On-unit technical training for armed forces and CAPF personnel, and the first allied-healthcare cohorts.
- 2024–25
Training at your doorstep
Mobile training units commissioned at scale — live engine rigs driven into districts with demand but no infrastructure.
- 2025–26
Nineteen states
Corporate, CSR, industry, defence, school and micro-enterprise programmes all running concurrently across the country.
The Y&Now loop
Five steps.One loop.
Every programme runs through the same five steps, in order — whether it is built for a plant floor, a dealer network or a school.
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Assess
Understand the role, the people and the current skill level — so the programme starts from the real gap, not a generic syllabus.
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Learn
Build the knowledge and the practical skill behind it, in the format that fits the people: classroom, virtual, digital or on-site.
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Apply
Put it to work on real tasks, in real conditions. Application is not the last stage of learning. It is the point of it.
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Perform
Connect what was learned to workplace goals, with manager feedback and performance measures that show whether it stuck.
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Improve
Use evidence and feedback to sharpen the next cycle — then start again with better information than last time.
The people
Trainers who havedone the job.
Our instructors come off shopfloors, service bays and labs, not out of lecture halls. Every trainer holds a trade qualification, carries a minimum of five years of site experience, and is re-assessed annually on both craft and instruction.
180+
Certified trainers on roll
5 yrs
Minimum floor experience
Annual
Re-assessment on craft
1:12
Trainer to trainee ratio
Leadership
The peoplebehind Y&Now.
Experience across media, learning and development, finance and systems — focused on one question: does the learning change what people can do?
Dr Kaveri Dutta
Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer
More than 15 years in learning and development, curriculum design and learner engagement. She leads how every Y&Now programme is built and taught.
Curriculum designLearner engagement
LinkedInTarun Abbhani
Chief Financial Officer
A Chartered Accountant with more than 14 years in finance leadership and operational strategy. He keeps delivery commercially sound at scale.
FinanceOperations
Souri Mukherjee
Head of Financial Planning and Analysis, IT and Cloud Solutions
24 years across consumer and brand environments, with an analytical, problem-solving approach to systems and reporting.
FP&AIT and cloud
Advisers
Pradeep Narayanan
More than 26 years in the development sector across health, education, child protection and gender.
Brajendra Gupta
An entrepreneur who has built businesses on the belief that skill development widens who gets an opportunity at all.
Work with us
The conversation starts the same way.
Whether you are building a workforce programme, a community initiative or your own next skill, tell us what you are trying to achieve.
Common questions
Questionspeople ask.
We design and deliver practical learning programmes for organisations, communities and individual learners.
Organisations we work with
Enterprise, institutional and workforce-learning environments.
