Pune: ANSYS and the Lila Poonawalla Foundation signed a CSR agreement today with the main objective of promoting engineering education among women and gender equality as a part of its CSR initiatives.
Preet Inderjeet Singh Walia, Director, APAC Finance, ANSYS and Priti Khare, Chief Executive Officer, Lila Poonawalla Foundation were present for the inauguration of the initiative.
This initiative will support aspiring women engineers from Mechanical and Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering streams over the next 4 years.
Rafiq Somani, Area Vice President – India and South Asia Pacific, ANSYS, said, “ANSYS is committed to the empowerment of women in engineering and such collaborations will help in the long term as they will provide these girls with the right knowledge and skill that will help them make better decisions in future. I see this as a fundamental necessity that will help overcome some of the barriers that women face in technology.”
The grant provided by ANSYS will be used by the Lila Poonawalla Foundation for reimbursement of college fees of the Engineering students selected from specified streams and also skill development trainings for the duration of the Bachelor of Engineering program.
