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Vernacular RAPD™
Behavioural profile administered in Hindi or the local regional language.
For NGOs
Career direction at the last mile.
Career-direction programmes for NGOs working in tier-3 and rural India. Hindi and regional RAPD™, NSDC linkage, and six months of mentor-on-call after every cohort.
Tier-3 + rural
primary focus
6 months
of mentor-on-call after each cohort
NSDC + Skill India
linkage built-in
For NGOs · Offering 01
Vernacular RAPD™
Behavioural profile administered in Hindi or the local regional language.
Track
For NGOs
primary focus
Tier-3 + rural
Our promise
Direction that travels the last mile — and stays there for six months after the programme ends.
Nation-building
Reaching the last mile with direction is where the cascade of dropouts and NEET begins to reverse.
What we offer
The programme.
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NSDC + Skill India linkage
Profile mapped to NSDC trades and live Skill India tracks — direction with a route to a livelihood.
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Mentor-on-call (6 months)
Six months of mentor-on-call after the cohort ends — by phone, not just by report.
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Beneficiary impact pack
Donor-grade, anonymised impact pack — built for grant renewals.
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Volunteer-runnable design
Modules designed for volunteer delivery, supervised by Dheya.
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Funder reporting
Reports formatted for the major Indian and international NGO funders.
The full picture
Programmes on the left. Outcomes on the right.
Switch between what you receive and what changes — measured in the first year and compounded across cohorts.
01Programme
Vernacular RAPD™
Behavioural profile administered in Hindi or the local regional language.
02Programme
NSDC + Skill India linkage
Profile mapped to NSDC trades and live Skill India tracks — direction with a route to a livelihood.
03Programme
Mentor-on-call (6 months)
Six months of mentor-on-call after the cohort ends — by phone, not just by report.
04Programme
Beneficiary impact pack
Donor-grade, anonymised impact pack — built for grant renewals.
05Programme
Volunteer-runnable design
Modules designed for volunteer delivery, supervised by Dheya.
06Programme
Funder reporting
Reports formatted for the major Indian and international NGO funders.
How it works
From kickoff to impact report.
Cohort design
M0Cohort size, geography, language, NSDC linkage targets.
Volunteer / staff certification
M1Your team trained as Dheya-certified facilitators (L1).
Cohort intake
M2Profile, baseline, language and NSDC route confirmed.
Programme delivery
M3–M5Sessions delivered in-community with monthly supervision.
Mentor-on-call
M6–M11Six months of mentor-on-call for every beneficiary.
Impact pack
M12Donor-grade impact pack and renewal-ready reporting.
The pay-off
Short-term and long-term.
In the first 12 months
Beneficiaries who can name a route
Every beneficiary leaves with a named trade or pathway — not a generic encouragement.
A trained internal team
Your facilitators certified — capability stays with the NGO, not the consultant.
Donor-renewal-ready reporting
Renewal packs that read the way the funder wants to read them.
Over multiple cohorts
Cohort after cohort of placed beneficiaries
Multi-year evidence of NSDC-linked placements from your community.
A funded, repeatable model
Per-beneficiary economics that survive funder due-diligence year after year.
A community-owned cadre
Local facilitators who run direction work without external dependency.
Why Dheya
18 yrs
of mentoring practice
1M+
students reached
91%
career clarity at Grade 12 (vs ~5% baseline)
6,500+
certified mentors
Who we serve
Six ways to join the mission.
Every partner improves their own outcomes — and adds their students to a national mission.
For CSR
Fund outcomes, not licences
₹230/student/year, audited Impact Reports, sponsor dashboards. Pilot → validate → scale: 5 → 20 → 100 schools.
Your CSR rupee becomes national human-capital.
ExploreFor Schools
The admissions differentiator
A teacher-runnable, NEP 2020-aligned Career Lab, supervised by Dheya, that families remember.
Early intervention saves the most national potential.
ExploreFor Colleges
Enrol, retain, place
Guided Admissions counsellor training, lifecycle mentoring and mock-interview programmes that lift strike rate and completion.
Right-fit graduates are the workforce the dividend depends on.
ExploreFor Skill Institutes
Fuller batches, fewer dropouts
Psychometric-led mobilisation and counselling matches each candidate to the right trade.
Skilled, employed youth close the national skills gap.
ExploreFor Government
District-scale guidance
Volume-tiered pricing, a Master-Trainer cadre and monitoring dashboards for the NEP 2020 mandate.
The dividend extended to every district of Bharat.
ExploreFor NGOs
A career layer for your communities
Co-designed Career Lab projects and train-the-trainer for your field staff and facilitators.
Guidance reaches the youth who need it most.
Explore
The system, in three layers
Not a workshop. A seven-year journey, embedded in the school.
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The Curriculum
199+ designed experiences across Grades 6–12 — career discovery as a literacy, not an event.
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The Physical Toolkit
Workbooks, card decks, the Sampoorna™ board game and the World Matrix of Learning — the medium the curriculum is delivered through.
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The Operating System
One certified Coordinator per school, Dheya supervision, digital portals, and a 6,500-mentor network. The school owns the running; Dheya owns the standard.
The frameworks
Proprietary method, refined over 18 years.
- RAPD™
- QPA
- 7D Mentoring Model
- TriFit™
- CLIQI™
- World Matrix of Learning
- Sampoorna™
- Swabhava → Swadharma
The mission you're joining
1.64 cr
Indians to find their direction by 2030
16,480
super-successful job creators developed
Every institutional partner becomes part of that count. Your students, your cohort, your programme — added to a national mission, and a contribution to the world's talent.
Proof at scale
Delivered with the institutions that matter.
64,000+
Govt. of Tamil Nadu, students/yr — state-funded
65,000+
Ashok Leyland Foundation students
200,000+
World Bank Tejaswini — adolescent girls
8,500+
schools reached
NEAT 4.0
AICTE partner
In partnership with
The institutions behind the mission.
World Bank — multilateral development partner — Tejaswini programme for adolescent girls 
UNDP — United Nations Development Programme — youth livelihoods partner 
Government of Odisha — state government skilling partner 
Government of Telangana — state government skilling partner 
Government of Maharashtra — state government skilling partner 
Government of Andhra Pradesh — state government skilling partner 
Government of Jammu & Kashmir — UT government skilling partner 
Indian Army — transition & career-guidance programme for soldiers 
NSDC — National Skill Development Corporation — skilling ecosystem partner 
NIRDPR — National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj 
DDU-GKY — Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana — rural placement-linked skilling 
BITS Pilani — academic partner — career mentoring for students 
Symbiosis — academic partner — admissions & career counselling 
Adani — corporate CSR partner — community career-guidance programmes 
Toyota Lexus — industry partner — automotive skilling pathway 
Stryker — MedTech industry partner — early-careers programme 
Amdocs — technology industry partner — campus hiring & mentoring 
Learning Links Foundation — NGO partner — schools-based career labs 
Lighthouse Communities — NGO partner — urban youth livelihoods 
Urban Management Centre — civic NGO partner — municipal capacity-building
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