New Delhi: Anthem Academy for Learning has introduced a range of focused and job oriented courses that will help develop a pool of 'ready-to-deploy' people for the fast growing industries of organized retail, modern healthcare and clinical research. Anthem Academy is establishing a network of training facilities, comprising both owned and franchisee centers.

Anthem Academy has already built a strong presence in IELTS test preparation training, effective communications, spoken English and in personality development and soft skills training. These popular courses are already running successfully, and Anthem also serves a set of institutional and corporate customers.

Mr. Rajiv Ahuja, Founder of Anthem Academy says, "At Anthem Academy, students are provided key skills and competencies that prepare them to tap into real employment opportunities in the booming industries of organized retail and modern health care. Our instructional delivery sets us apart as it blends experience and knowledge, and is strongly oriented towards acquiring job skills that are vital for the value driven and increasingly competitive business environment in these industries."

· Retail sector in India is growing stupendously and expected to rise to US$ 833 billion by 2013. E&Y's report anticipates that this growth in retail sector will provide approximately 2 million employment opportunities by the year 2010.

· FICCI- E&Y reports that medical infrastructure forms the largest portion of the healthcare. 1 million beds in excess need to be added to reach a ratio of 1.85 per thousand at an investment of US$ 77.9 billion.

· Clinical trials have the potential to become a US$ 1 billion industry by 2010 and the health services outsourcing sector has the potential to grow to US$ 7.4 billion by 2012, from US$ 3.7 billion in 2006.

Source: IBEF report on Healthcare & Retail, April 2009

Anthem Academy's curriculum is closely aligned to and designed in active collaboration with industry and gives students a keen appreciation of the prevalent work environment. This helps in quicker assimilation of students into organizational roles; helps them build sustainable employability and long term success in their careers. Anthem is discussing alliance possibilities with leading players in organized retail, BPO, health care and with CROs. The courses include internships and on the job training that help students observe practical implementation of the concepts they study in the class.

"Organized retail and modern health care are already feeling the need for quality manpower intensely. Recent turmoil apart, the fundamental direction of growth of organized retail is positive and sustained. India can quickly take a global leadership position in Clinical Research, much as we were able to in the IT/ITES industries, as the core competence in this industry too is entirely people centric. Modern health care is seeing strong investment flow, and is also well poised for significant growth in the coming years." Rajiv added.

Anthem Academy operates two centers in New Delhi – at Preet Vihar, in East Delhi and at Kalkaji, in South Delhi. Franchise arrangements are in active discussion for many new locations.

About Anthem Academy's courses and curriculum:
Anthem's extensively accepted effective communications courses include preparation training for IELTS examinations, call centre training, spoken English at basic, intermediate and advanced levels and BULATS. In addition, Anthem also offers customized programmes to corporates, educational institutions and the BPO industry. AnthemAcademy is an approved registration centre for British Council, IDP Australia and University of Cambridge.

The newly introduced Anthem Academy curriculum is for students aspiring to enter the modern format of Retail or Health Care industry. The Retail Operations and Retail Management program trains students in supply chain management, logistics, visual merchandizing, business communication and customer relationship. The curriculum designed for Clinical Research stresses on an in-depth understanding of all phases of clinical research and prepares candidates for specific responsibilities in the successful execution of projects. The Health Care management programme prepares students to take up specific jobs in hospitals, nursing homes, doctor offices, NGOs or health insurance administrators and companies.

Anthem Academy's Board of Advisors:
Mr. Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft India
Mr. K L Muralidhara, President and CEO, Reliance Retail
Dr. V S Kumar, Founder and Chairman, Doctor Kares
Mr. Ramesh Vaswani, Vice Chairman, INTEX
Mr. Alok Tandon, CEO, INOX Leisure
Prof. Kondap, Former Vice Chancellor, NMIMS
Mr. Rajendra Prasad, President and CFO, SRF Ltd
Mr. Amarjit Singh Sidhu, Management Consultant

Prof. Mahesh Gandhi, Education Director
Rajiv Ahuja, Founder Director

About the Founder
Anthem Academy for Learning Private Limited has been promoted by Mr. Rajiv Ahuja who is a first gen entrepreneur with over twenty one years of experience spanning multiple functions in leading Indian and Multinational companies. In his last position at Dell, Rajiv's responsibility spanned the Asia Pacific South region, across 27 countries. 

Rajiv has worked with Dell, American Express, the multi business Max India Group and Garwares. He has been a key part of several start ups, in numerous industries including telecom, healthcare and the insurance businesses of Max. He was a key part of the expansion of American Express' presence in the country as also in the rapid growth of Dell's business in India.

Rajiv has a B. Sc [Hons] and an MBA and has participated in several executive and business management programs across the world.

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