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India Skill Summit set to bring the industry leaders together Virtually on Feb 6

Jan 27, 2022 by Gouri 0 Comments #Ajay S. Shriram, #Dheeraj G Hinduja, #FUEL, #Harsh Goenka, #India Skill Summit, #Ketan Deshpande, #Madhav Singhania, #Prakash Javadekar, #Rusen Kumar, #Sanjiv Mehta, #Satya Nadella

India Skill Summit Pune

PUNE: The India Skill Summit, jointly hosted by Pune based FUEL, FUEL Future Skills Institute and India CSR, will be held virtually on February 6, 2022. The day-long forum will witness visionary politicians, renowned corporate leaders and CSR leaders as guests and speakers. This program assumes national importance as India has to make the skill sector more active and relevant this year.

Speakers and Guests

The summit will be inaugurated by Shri Basavaraj Bommai, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Karnataka; and Shri Prakash Javadekar, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Pune, Former Union HRD Minister. Shri Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India will be the guest of honour, who will deliver the keynote address.

Future skills Paramount

The national forum will bring together skill sector leaders, experts and key stakeholders from industry and government to discuss the pertinent issues impacting the skills development sector and allied domains. The summit is curated as a platform for future skills dialogue pertaining to India.

Building Future-Ready Workforce, the theme

The central theme of this prestigious forum is ‘Building Future-Ready Workforce’. The summit is a forum for multiple industries to discuss future skills trends and understand the opportunities in the area of a future-ready workforce. The summit encourages young people to Upskill and Re-skill themselves. Upcoming trends and the future of India’s skill development will be discussed in a detailed manner by the various stalwarts attending the summit.

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Skills for All

“Skills Development is an important imperative for achieving India’s ambitious growth targets. We are committed to working with the stakeholders, especially the industry, government and academia to create sustainable and scalable future-ready skills propositions which will benefit the youth of the country from all sections of society.”, said Ketan Deshpande, Founder, FUEL and FUEL Future Skills Institute (FFSI).

Industry leaders at the summit will be provided with the opportunity to propose collaborative and innovative resolutions to meet the skills needed across the Indian workforce, and ensure India remains globally competitive.

India, a Skill Capital of World

“India has emerged as the fastest-growing major economy and is expected to be the Skill Capital of the world over the next 2 to 5 years, backed by its young workforce. The average age in India is 29 years with 65% of the population in the working-age group (15-59 years of age). India’s burgeoning young workforce can be an asset not just for India but for the rest of the world as well.”, said Rusen Kumar, Founder and CEO, India CSR.

The participants will be able to hear thought leaders discuss and deliberate on topics extremely relevant to the skill development ecosystem for the coming years.

Launch of FUEL Future Skills Institute (FFSI)

“Launch of FUEL Future Skills Institute (FFSI) also to be launched during the summit. FFSI is a state-of-the-art centre of excellence to equip needy youth with futuristic and management skills addressing National Education Policy NEP and Industry 4.0 needs.”, added Ketan Deshpande.

Connect and Collaborate

“The Skill Summit is for skill leaders of Govt., CSR, Industry, Academicians, Researchers, Policy Makers and other stakeholders. The objective of the summit is to address the challenges that India’s skill sector is facing today and likely to face in future and to discuss innovations and strategic solutions to lay a foundation for building future-ready organisations and workforce.”, said Rusen Kumar.

Key Luminaries at the forum

Chief Guests

Shri Basavaraj Bommai, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Karnataka;

Shri Prakash Javadekar, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Pune, Former Union HRD Minister

Guest of Honour

Shri Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India

Speakers

Ketan Deshpande, Founder Chairman & CEO, FUEL;

Santosh Huralikoppi, Chief Mentor, FUEL;

Rusen Kumar, Founder and Managing Editor, India CSR;

C.P. Gurnani, MD & CEO, Tech Mahindra Limited,

Shailender Kumar, Senior VP and Regional Managing Director, Oracle India

Prof. Jaideep Prabhu, Author, Nehru Professor of Business and Enterprise, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK;

Clare Woodcraft, Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, Cambridge Judge Business School, UK;

Shonali Banerjee, Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, Cambridge Judge Business School, UK

Kapil Kaul, National President, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce

David J. Ranz, U.S Consul General, Mumbai

Martina Merz, Chief Executive Officer, ThyssenKrupp

Prof Shaz Ansari, Professor of Strategy, Judge Business School

Testimonials from leaders

Corporate Leaders convey best wishes for the success of the programme Political visionary and various corporate tycoons conveyed his best wishes for the success of the programme.

Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Pune and Former Union HRD Minister; Office of Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft; Sanjiv Mehta, Chairman and MD, Hindustan Unilever Limited; Madhav Singhania, Deputy Managing Director & CEO, J.K. Cement Limited; Mohit Malhotra, Chief Executive Officer, Dabur India Limited; Ajay S. Shriram, Chairman & Sr. Managing Director, DCM SHRIRAM; Venkatram Mamillapalle, Country CEO & Managing Director, Renault India Operations; Harsh Goenka, Chairman, RPG group of Companies; Hari S Bhartia, Founder and Co-Chairman, Jubilant Bhartia Group; Dheeraj G Hinduja, Executive Chairman Ashok Leyland, Hinduja Group who are leading leaders who have called this meeting important by sending their best wishes.

The Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL)

FUEL – Friends Union for Energising Lives, is a credible non-profit organization registered as a trust established in 2007 working in the fields of Skill Development, Career Counseling, and scholarships for disadvantaged youth of the nation under CSR initiative of various leading corporate. FUEL has trained over 45000 needy youth in futuristic skills & has guided 11 lakh students across India. FUEL, founded and led by Ketan Deshpande and Santosh Huralikoppi has received appreciation from the Hon’ble Prime Minister as “Champions of Change” and Hon’ble President of India for its commendable work over the years.

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Business Responsibility in COVID-19 pandemic World

Jan 10, 2022 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Business Responsibility, #Corporate Response on Covid-19, #Covid-19, #Covid-19 in India, #CSR, #Post Covid World, #Rusen Kumar

2021 was a year that showed us the true capability that India has, and how much more we can do in 2022.

By Rusen Kumar

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a serious and unprecedented impact across the economies and society in general, particularly in India. 2021 was different in every aspect and held more than its fair share of challenges. 2021 was a year where India demonstrated that our people come first – when lives depended on ensuring taking all necessary precautions. India implemented numerous initiatives towards ensuring the health, well-being and safety of our people.

India reeled under the new coronavirus pandemic situation that disrupted our collective sense of the normal, and also witnessed a crisis of unprecedented nature and effect. The harsh situation continues to remain serious, and therefore, we should continue to support our people and our communities.

However, India also saw the best of human nature at this time. India continually witnesses magnificent examples of resilience. India’s collective resolve to stand with communities, to inspire hope and healing. India is determined to come out stronger from this pandemic than we have ever been. As a sustainable and responsible India, everything we do is to inspire by a deep sense of purpose.

Our collective values have held us in good stead at this time, and they are the foundation on which we have built our success and results. It is heartening to see India rise to the challenge and continue to make a positive impact on the lives of people. In India, the pandemic situation continues to remain serious, and therefore, we continue to support our people and our communities.

India proved the solidity of the Covid-19 strategy. This has helped India quickly adapt to new ways of being stronger together and gain greater momentum addressing key challenges. Government responses in the year 2022 continue to stand robust, both economic and in terms of meeting and exceeding people’s expectations.

India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 150.61 Cr on January 8, 2022. India is accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country. The vaccination drive has been ramped up through the availability of enough vaccines, advanced visibility of vaccine availability for enabling better planning and streamlining the vibrant vaccine supply chain.

We need to have put in place multiple task forces for people’s hospitalization, medication and vaccination. We need to expand the scope of our employee benefits from medical and term insurance to provide for the families of employees we lost to this terrible virus. Throughout this challenging period, India responded very quickly to prioritize the health and safety of our people and continued to provide a reliable supply of medicines, vaccination and necessary help to the patients across the country.

As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, India has given COVID Vaccines free of cost to people. In the new phase of the universalization of the COVID-19 vaccination drive, India will procure and supply (free of cost) 75% of the vaccines being produced by the manufacturers in the country to various states.

The Indian business cemented its strength with its persistent effort to enhance profitability by improving upon the overall quality of the business. During the year 2022, India needs to continually launch new initiatives and economic relief to Covid-19 affected people and businesses. While India has performed well in the year 2021, It has started 2022 on an optimistic note.

People, civil society and businesses, who collectively enable India to create value by helping each other, will keep focusing on India’s strategic priorities and leveraging their strengths. Trust, confidence, and support to government efforts toward Covid-19 are key for overcoming challenges. Notwithstanding the challenges of the times, Indian businesses should continue to think from the heart and act with a high head – to care for people, covid-19 patients and communities.

Shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unexpected and overwhelming year of 2021 that went by affected every aspect of our lives. In the face of this unprecedented volatility, India made proactive investments in people, processes, operations and technologies that tackle the Covid-19, so that India could deliver strong operational performance throughout the year and into the 2022 and future.

Throughout 2021, India worked hard to strengthen the long-term value of people and business, to emerge stronger coming out of the pandemic. This has been possible due to the hard work, perseverance, and commitment of India’s people. Our priority for the year 2022 will remain to ensure the health and safety of our people. Let’s put in place extensive measures to protect our people and their families, yet sadly we lost several of our valued fellow citizens.

All responsible corporate citizens must continue to extend all forms of support to COVID-19 relief efforts. In a year of turmoil, Indian corporations should be proud and humbled to have been able to serve our communities and needy people.

The year 2021 was a year that showed us the true capability that India has, and how much more we can do in 2022. I am very excited about the opportunities ahead for our people and business.

About the Author

Rusen Kumar is the founder and CEO of India CSR – The CSR Informer of India. He regularly writes on CSR, Sustainability and Environmental affairs. He brings an understanding of governance, leadership development, social development, human development, and strategic focus by serving boards. His leadership accomplishments in social enterprise, planning, and governance range from viable achievements in knowledge forum initiatives to advancement of corporate social responsibility issues in India. He can be reached at rusenk@indiacsr.in

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India Skill Summit set to bring the industry leaders together Virtually on Feb 6

Business Responsibility in COVID-19 pandemic World

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