As Rolls-Royce, we believe in STEM completely. We are a technology company, so for us STEM is everything. How we are trying to do this in India, is that all our CSR projects are STEM related. The challenge is not about finding skilled people in the STEM area, the challenge is more about finding skilled women in the STEM area. We have also focused a lot on women and their ability to be able to pursue this and figure out how they can have careers in the spaces that they want to excel in, but basically STEM is the foundation.
Having said this, we also want to start STEM at a very young level. So, we want to make sure that people who are in, let's say, even sixth grade seventh grade, from then on, you start with STEM. Then they gain an understanding of how, why or what happens, and then you're able to develop that inquisitiveness in their mind. As they build on that inquisitiveness, we are hoping that they will all grow into that same space.
We look at skilling itself in two ways - one is about the machinist type of skills, and the other is about the mental skills of being able to think and being able to look at problems, solve problems, and that is a very different area and we are trying to put this all into the picture of either aerospace sector or power system sector.
I think STEM fits everywhere, it goes everywhere and is a broad thing. I think if we don't put the focus on there, and if we don't put the focus on women, there are going to be challenges in terms of finding enough people to do these kinds of work because it's easy for people to go into areas that are buzzwords of today. But the point is, the buzzwords of today need not sustain long term, so there's got to be a balance in the skills development that should happen.
We believe for us STEM works in that area. I think other sectors such as banking, telecom, healthcare will talk about STEM a little differently, but from an aerospace and defence and power systems, from our point of view, being a technology company, STEM is everything.