About us
Charting New Horizons: Capt. Indraani Singh’s Mission to Empower India:
Capt. Indraani Singh Grewal, Founder Literacy India and Managing Partner of Indha Craft , a pioneering aviator, became the world’s first woman commander on an Airbus-300 in 1995. Alongside her 33-year aviation career, she founded Literacy India in 1996, impacting over 975,000 lives and engaging 4.7 million individuals through education, empowerment, and sustainability initiatives.
A photographer, sustainable craft designer, and social innovator, she has created 3.1 lakh grassroots entrepreneurs through skill development programs. Her initiative Indha features her craft designs, empowering over 10,000 women in rural India. Programs like Gyantantra-Digital Dost revolutionize digital education, while Vidyapeeth to Pathshala to Gurukul promote immersive and experiential learning, inspiring children to solve real-world problems and become changemakers. In partnership with Code.org, Literacy India is also training children in coding across its centres.
Capt. Singh designs CSR engagement models, fosters volunteer-driven impact, and champions sustainability through waste recycling, renewable energy, and eco-friendly innovation. With learning centres across multiple states, her initiatives integrate modern technology, employability training, and entrepreneurship development.
Recognized globally, she has been featured on the cover of California’s Women Achievers Magazine and honoured with the Limca Book of Records, Power to Empower Award, Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Congress of Women and Godfrey Philip Award for Bravery.
Her journey exemplifies leadership, vision, and a lifelong commitment to transforming communities and empowering individuals to create lasting change.
Vision statement
To create sustainable livelihood opportunities for women in rural India and improve their economic and social
condition, enabling them to live a life of dignity
To make opportunities
for livelihood available
to all rural woman
through Indha.
To develop sustainable
handicraft units providing
a permanent means of
income generation.
To enable funding for
other projects of
Literacy india through
profits generated.
Objectives
01
To develop Brand Indha, recognized
internationally by communication its
mission and promoting quality products
02
To tap into the exhaustive skill set available
in rural India and train the workforce to be in
sync with market requirements
Short term goals
Provide employment opportunities to minimum of 350 women in rural India after their training as artisans in Literacy India.
Long term goals
01
To increase the number of women artisians to 1500 and to generate fair profits to enable grants to Literacy India for scaling other projects
02
Both these goals will be achieved through scaling the current revenue from the current $90K to $1M in 5 years
03
Create robust marketing and sales platform to support the sales and revenue of our products as well as create a channel for other partner’s products where required
04
Ready platform or companies to invest CSR funds or run CSR programs through Literacy india as a partner
