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Programme on Leadership and other Enablers for Achieving Business Excellence

Sponsored by the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, the captioned programme was conducted at IIPA for the officials drawn from state level enterprises from September 7-11. Shri A.S. Bhal, Adviser, Department of Public Enterprises, inaugurated the programme. The objectives of the programme were to: (i) provide a comprehensive insight into the philosophy and concepts of leadership; (ii) develop a concept of relevant leadership in business; (iii) identify qualities and styles of leaders and leadership; (iv) provide an insight into team building and leadership skills through conceptual and experiential learning sessions; (v) initiate the process of developing leadership; and (vi) develop a plan of action for improving leadership skills. Programme faculty comprised guest speakers and in-house faculty. Dr. Neetu Jain coordinated it.

Programme on Incorporating Gender Concerns in Public Policy

Sponsored by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, the programme was conducted at IIPA from September 7-11. Besides providing an overview of the state of gender in India, a

Shri A.S. Bhal addresses the participants. On his left are Dr. Neetu Jain and Dr. Tishyarakshit Chatterjee

Annual General Body MeetingThe sixty-first Annual Meeting of the General Body

of the Institute will be held on Friday, October 16, 2015 at 5.00 p.m. in the IIPA Auditorium.

Members’ Annual ConferenceThe fifty-ninth Members’ Annual Conference will

be held on Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 10.00 a.m. in the IIPA Auditorium. The theme of the Conference is “Higher Education at Crossroads”.

For Information of IIPA MembersThis is for the information of the members of IIPA that the

notice for the sixty-first Annual Meeting of the General Body to be held on October 16, 2015 along with Annual Report 2014-15 and also the suggestions/observations made by the members at the AGM 2014 and Special AGM held on January 16, 2015 have been dispatched. The same can also be accessed on the IIPA website www.iipa.org.in

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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help—Abraham Lincoln

critical analysis of existing policy responses of the state and problems with policy-making, including those related to data, analysis and implementation, the programme examined the civil society responses to the gender question and their bearing on the overall state of gender. Programme faculty comprised guest speakers and in-house faculty. Prof. Dolly Arora and Prof. Aasha Kapur Mehta coordinated it.

Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing in Organisations

Sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, the programme was conducted at IIPA for scientists and technologists from September 7-11. Besides familiarising the participants with basic concepts and practices of knowledge management and its linkage with the effectiveness of their organisations, the programme was designed to facilitate them to: (i) build relationships and organisational structure, processes and opportunities to encourage a knowledge culture; (ii) highlight the importance of human and cultural factors in successful implementation of knowledge management systems in the organisations; (iii) collect, create, organise and disseminate scientific knowledge including methods of data, information and knowledge exchange; (iv) provide a forum for sharing the experiences from leading public, private and corporate sector organisations who have used knowledge management at various stages; (v) suggest broad approaches for designing and implementing knowledge management system in their respective organisations; (vi) demonstrate select knowledge management tools which have been found useful in implementing knowledge management systems; (vii) explain an integrated framework of assessing performance of knowledge management system; (viii) focus on legal and ethical issues of knowledge management in science and technology organisations. Programme faculty comprised guest speakers and in-house faculty. Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi and Dr. Roma Mitra Debnath coordinated it.

Programme for Deputy Architects of CPWDSponsored by the Central Public Works Department,

the programme was conducted at IIPA from September 7-17. Besides enabling the participants to unravel their own dormant positive personality traits to be more effective and efficient professionals, the programme

was designed to enable them to: (i) implement the principles of personality preparedness to cope up with competitive official scenario; (ii) understand the basic tenets of Indian administration, ICT implementation and trends of e-governance implementation; (iii) appreciate the various legal provisions as applicable to routine administrative functioning; (iv) understand the nuances of office noting, drafting, conduct rules, service conditions and related disciplinary procedures as stipulated by Government of India; and (v) display leadership attributes for taking charge in critical situations as well as reflect the attributes of being an effective team member for achieving desired organization goal and objectives. Programme faculty comprised guest speakers and in-house faculty. Prof. P.K. Chaubey and Dr. Charru Malhotra coordinated it.

Programme for the Presidents and Members of the District Consumer Forums

Sponsored by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution under the guidance of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, the programme was conducted at IIPA by its Centre for Consumer Studies under Advanced Management Development Programme-II from September 14-18. Apart from elaborating and integrating the various provisions of the Consumer Protection Act and other legislation having a bearing on consumer protection, the programme was designed to enable the participants to: (i) appreciate the intricacies of judicial procedure in general and the requirements of fairness and reasonableness in the functioning of quasi-judicial bodies such as the consumer disputes redressal agencies in particular; (ii) effectively make use of the art of judgement-writing in delivering the orders of the consumer courts; (iii) appreciate the legal dimensions of the case laws developed in the area of consumer protection; and (iv) develop effective leadership for better administration of consumer justice. The faculty comprised guest speakers and in-house faculty. Prof. Suresh Misra and Dr. Sapna Chadah directed it.

Programme on Leadership and Communication Skills

The programme was conducted at IIPA from October 15-19. Besides understanding the significance of communication skills and leadership, the programme

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Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class—Al Capone

was designed to enable the participants to: (i) apply innovative techniques in problem-solving to confirm stakeholders’ expectations; (ii) differentiate oral and non-verbal communications; (iii) develop citizen-centric mindset through leadership and communication skills; and (iv) apply workable indicators of leadership and communication skills in their work profile. Programme faculty comprised guest speakers and in-house faculty. Dr. Kusum Lata and Dr. Saket Bihari coordinated it.

Programme on Capacity BuildingSponsored by the Department of Science and

Technology, the programme was conducted at IIPA for the technical personnel of science and technology departments under Government of India from September 28-October 9. The programme was designed to; (i) enhance the understanding of administrative and

financial rules and procedures; (ii) provide an exposure to management related issues, problems and solutions; and (iii) enable cross-learning and team work through preparation of group reports and presentations. Programme faculty comprised guest speakers and in-house faculty. Prof. Aasha Kapur Mehta and Dr. Mamta Pathatnia coordinated it.

Faculty NewsDr. V.N. Alok, Associate Professor of Urban

Finance, delivered a key-note address on “How the New Government is Instituting Policies for Better Startup Culture in India?” as the Guest of Honour at the inaugural ceremony of Conquest 2015—An International Startup Conclave, organised by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani on September 6 at ITC Sheraton, New Delhi.

Assam Regional BranchThe branch organised its annual meeting on

September 12. In this connection a discussion was held on the theme “Higher Education at Crossroads”. Prof. Dhrubajyoti Saikia, Vice-Chancellor of Cotton College State University graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and also delivered the keynote address on the theme. Prof. Gayatree Goswamee, Professor of Education, Gauhati University, presided over the discussion session of the convention. The discussion was largely attended by the scholars and students from Cotton College State University, Gauhati University and members of the branch. They took active part in the discussion on the theme. Both the speakers answered to the queries to the satisfaction of the participants. Earlier, Shri Jatin Hazarika, Chairman of the branch, introduced the speakers through his illuminating introductory speech.

Aurangabad Local BranchThe branch collaborated with the Department of

Public Administration and Political Science of Deogari College in organising a seminar on “Two Decades of 73rd Constitutional Amendment: Experiences, Issues and Challenges” on August 22. In his inaugural address, Shri Umakant Dangat, Divisional Commissioner of Aurangabad, highlighted the issues required to be attended to strengthen the panchayati raj institutions. He

also focused on the role of bureaucracy in this regard. In his key-note address, Shri K.B. Bhoge, President of the branch, highlighted the financial and administrative position of the PRIs and expressed his strong displeasure about the lack of seriousness on the part of the State legislature to take effective legislative steps to strengthen the financial positions of PRIs by way of transferring some of local taxes to the local bodies. He also underlined the problem of deteriorating working relationship between the political bosses and the bureaucratic machinery.

Bihar Regional BranchThe branch organised a prelude seminar on

“Higher Education at Crossroads” on September 13. Prof. Khalid Mirza, Director of Higher Education, Bihar Government, was the Chief Guest. Dr. Rash Bihari Singh, Vice-Chancellor of Nalanda Open University, delivered the key-note address. He hoped that most of the shortcomings and hurdles of higher education will be solved at the earliest as the government is working to solve and sort out the difficulties in promoting technical higher education. Shri A.V. Sinha, Chairman of the branch, presided over the programme.

Delhi Regional BranchThe branch organised a panel discussion on

“Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development” on September 7. Prof. Vinod Kumar Sharma of IIPA;

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity-- Aristotle

Prof. Vinod K. Menon, Founding Member of National Disaster Management Authority; and Shri Amir Khan of NIDM participated in the discussion and presented their papers in the programme. On this occasion, a book entitled Disaster Management: An Introduction by Rajni Srivastava was released by Prof. Vinod Kumar Sharma. Prof. P.K. Chaubey, Chairman of the branch, presided over the programme.

Howrah Local BranchShri Sankar Kumar Sanyal, Chairman of All India

Harijan Sevak Sangha and Vice-Chairman of the branch, will represent India as spokeperson of Gandhian Philosophy in World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in October 2015 where Swami Vivekananda delivered his glorious address in 1893.The branch organised a seminar on “Wetland and Waste Management with Special Reference to Kolkata Municipal Corporation” on August 29. Prof. Asish Ray, Secretary of the branch, gave the inaugural address; and Dr. Netai Kundu, Sr. Scientist, Pollution Control Board of West Bengal, gave the key-note address on the topic. Rtn. Dilip Kumar Das, Chairman of the branch, presided over the programme.

Jammu and Kashmir Regional BranchThe branch organised a lecture-meeting on August

24, in which Prof. K.L. Bhatia, former Professor of Law, National Law University spoke on “Magnum opus of Free Speech and Expression”. His presentation focused on Article 19 (1)(a)(2) which provides constitutional provision of freedom of speech and expression and Section 66A ITA Act 2000 (2009). Justice J.P. Singh emphasised on the role of freedom, liberty and equality and spoke on the relevance of freedom of speech and expression. Earlier, Shri J.B.S. Johar, Secretary of the branch, introduced the subject. Dr. Komal Nagar, Joint Director (Seminars), conducted the proceedings.

Madurai Local BranchThe branch organised a prelude conference on

“Higher Education at Crossroads” on August 22. Dr. M. Lakshmanan, former Vice-Chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University, inaugurated the programme. Four speakers including Dr. A. Vijayarajan spoke on the topic. Discussions were held after the delivery of speeches, mostly around higher education in particular about the Ph.D. and selection of lecturers/ assistant professors,

etc., Dr. D.V.P. Raja, Chairman of Madurai Institute of Social Sciences, presided over the conference.

Magadh Local BranchA wel l -at tended seminar-cum-round table

conference was organised on “Higher Education at the Cross- roads” on September 20 under the Chairmanship of Shri Yogendra Bhagat in which the participants expressed their views as to how the functional as also the academic affairs in the universities across the country are suffering and an urgent corrective measure is the need of the hour to save it from the disastrous consequences. The focus of attention was the on-going policy of ever increasing mushroom growth of private universities without having any commitment for enrichment of the need of higher education. The affairs of the universities of Bihar was also discussed in detail and the participants opined that academics and people from civil society should take lead so that the main issue of education as per need of the hour be addressed without much further delay.

Punjab and Chandigarh Regional BranchThe branch and Department of Public Administration,

Panjab University, Chandigarh jointly organised a special lecture by Dr. S.S. Channy, Chief Information Commissioner, Punjab on the topic “RTI Act: The Punjab Experience” on September 18.

Tirupattur Local BranchThe branch organised Bone Marrow Density

Detection camp for public on August 28. Thiru K.G. Ramesh, MLA of Tirupattur, inaugurated the camp in the presence of Thiru K.M. Subramanian, Secretary of the branch. Indoco Remedies Ltd., Mumbai conducted the testing of bone marrow density.

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be discontinued with effect from January 2016. The same will be sent on members’ email.

All members are requested to send their present mailing address, mobile number and email on iipamembersupdate@gmail.com

Tishyarakshit ChatterjeeDirector

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Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten-- Aesop

Senior Appointments in MinistriesThe Union Government has approved the following

senior appointments/promotions/ transfers/extensions: ● Shri C.R. Viswanath as Secretary of Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ● Ms. Vrinda Sarup as the Secretary of Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ● Dr. Subhas Chandra Khuntia as Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development ● Shri Anuj Kumar Bishnoi as Secretary of Department of Fertilizers, Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizers ● Shri Shashi Shekhar as Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation ● Shri Sunil Soni as Secretary of Inter State Council Secretariat under the Ministry of Home Affairs ● Shri Anil Kumar Agarwal as Secretary of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs ● Ms. Rita A Teaotia as Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry ● Dr. Anup K Pujari as Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ● Shri Balvender Kumar as Secretary of Ministry of Mines ● Shri Pradeep Kumar Pujari as Secretary of Ministry of Power ● Shri Ameising Luikham as the Secretary of Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises ● Shri Vinay Sheel Oberoi as Secretary, Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Human Resource Development ● Shri V. Somasundaran as Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development ● Shri Rajiv Nayan Choubey as Secretary of Ministry of Civil Aviation ● Shri Devendra Chaudhary as Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions ● Shri P.K. Sinha as the Cabinet Secretary ● Shri G. Mohan Kumar as Defence Secretary of Ministry of Defence ● Shri Ashok Kumar Gupta as Secretary D/o Defence Production, Ministry of Defence ● Smt. Draupadi Murmu as Governor of Jharkhand ● Dr. Syed Ahmed as Governor of Manipur ● Shri K. Balaji Majumdar as Private Secretary, MoS (Shri Y. S. Chowdary) Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences ● Shri Sanjay Kumar Srivastava as Secretary of Department of

Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs ● Shri Lalit K. Panwar as the Secretary (AC), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas ● Shri Arun Jha as Secretary of Ministry of Tribal Affairs ● Shri Shaktikanta Das as Secretary, D/o Economic Affairs ● Shri Hasmukh Adhia as Secretary, D/o Revenue, M/o Finance ● Ms Anjuly Chib Duggal as Secretary, D/o Financial Services, M/o Finance ● Shri Tapan Ray as Secretary, M/o Corporate Affairs ● Shri J. S. Deepak as Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ● Shri Vijay Shankar Madan as Secretary, D/o Land Resources, M/o Rural Development ● Shri Vinod Zutshi as Secretary, M/o Tourism ● Shri Sunil Arora as Secretary, M/o Information and Broadcasting ● Shri Rohit Nandan as Secretary, M/o Skill Development and Entrepreneurship ● Shri Ajit M. Sharan as Secretary, M/o AYUSH ● Shri Sanjay Kumar Srivastava as Secretary, Coordination and Public Grievances, Cabinet Secretariat ● Shri Rajiv Yadav as Secretary, D/o Sports, M/o Youth Affairs and Sports ● Shri Girish Shankar as Secretary, D/o Official Language, M/o Home Affairs ● Shri Pravir Kumar as Secretary, Inter-State Council Secretariat ● Shri Amarendra Sinha as Secretary, National Commission of Minorities ● Shri Raghav Chandra as Chairman, National Highways Authority of India under M/o Road Transport and Highways.

Global Scholars to Teach in IndiaIndia may not yet have managed to get the Ivy

League to set up campus in India through the much-awaited Foreign Universities Bill but is close to roping in over 200 academics from global varsities to teach in India at $8,000- $12,000. Among those likely to touch down to teach in Indian institutes soon are avid Dean Shulman, Indologist and one of the world’s foremost authorities on Indian languages and eminent gender theorist and American philosopher Judith Butler. Both are expected to teach courses at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. As per the agreement between the Ministry of Human Resource Development and academics from across countries to teach more than 200 short term academic courses in Indian institutes starting this November through its new scheme — Global Initiative for Academics Network (GIAN). The first GIAN backed course by a foreign faculty is expected to start with

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Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it– Joe Clark

NIT Surathkal this November. GIAN aims at increasing the footfalls of reputed international faculty to Indian academic institutes, providing opportunities for both students to interact with global academics and for the faculty to engage and collaborate with them and develop high quality study material through ongoing academic relationships. While about 220 eminent academics have nearly finalised teaching arrangements across institutes so far, we are hoping to touch a figure of 500 by year end. A number of academics from Germany, USA, Canada, France and Australia have evinced considerable interest in GIAN and academics from across top global varsities including MIT, Oxford University, Cambridge, Stanford University, University of Berkeley, and Imperial College of London are queuing up. Spain, Brazil, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Russia, Norway, Singapore and Sweden are among other nations sending in academics to India. The Indian Government had last year also engaged with Manjul Bhargava, R. Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, to help pitch the GIAN scheme as a brand ambassador. Over 50 courses by foreign academics are likely to be taught at Central Universities. And it is not just big varsities in metros that are drawing in academics. Among the varsities where eminent academics will come are Assam University, Mizoram University, Tezpur University, University of Allahabad, Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur, JNU, University of Hyderabad and Central University of Gujarat. The University Grants Commission (UGC) that is coordinating for all non- Central Universities will soon be holding a workshop to get GIAN going. The Centre has backed GIAN with financial incentives on par with what China offered global academics to teach at their universities is also working favourably. Incidentally, a few IITs and IIMs had raised concerns about paying this huge a remuneration to the visiting faculty citing insufficiency of funds available with them. Some of the IIMs that do not take any financial support from the Centre had also argued their inability to do so. The Centre is even pitching in with additional funds where institutes may have cited difficulty in paying the decided remuneration for the visiting faculty. IIT Madras is learnt to be leading the tally so far with over 25 courses expected to be taught by visiting foreign faculty.

Interns to be Roped in for Policy FormulationThe Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT)

has sought nominations from Indian nationals who are

graduate, post-graduate or research students enrolled in reputed universities or institutions in India or abroad and preferably having specialisation in human resource and associated subjects in public policy. The interns may benefit by getting an exposure to the government functioning and the policy issues in human resource management in Government of India and contribute to the policy formulation by generating policy inputs such as empirical analysis, briefing reports, policy papers, etc. Department may benefit from the additional resources in the form of young talents and their outputs which will add to its policy formulation base, according to the objective of the scheme put out by the DoPT. The period of internship will be for a minimum period of two months. Interns may be given a stipend of Rs. 10,000 per month necessary to meet the conveyance and other daily needs. It is neither a job nor a promise for job in the future. The government has proposed to engage ten interns for internship.

National Industrial Corridor Development Authority to be Set Up

The Union Cabinet is likely to consider a proposal to setup the National Industrial Corridor Development Authority (NICDA) that would oversee the development of all economic corridors in the country. With a corpus of around Rs. 18,500 crore, the authority will supervise the implementation and coordination among the five industrial corridors in the works. The authority was to be located in Pune but latest thinking is that it should be in Delhi as industrial corridor projects require significant inter-ministerial coordination. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), which is the nodal department for the development of corridors, has suggested that the authority be headed by Shri Amitabh Kant, Industry Secretary, and has a structure similar to that of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC). Apart from DMIC, the government is implementing four other economic corridors—Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor, Vizag-Chennai Industrial Corridor, Bengaluru-Mumbai Economic Corridor and Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor—which are at various stages of development. The DMIC covers the six states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra, while the AKIC will run through seven states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The BMEC covers Karnataka and Maharashtra,

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the CBIC will run across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and the VCIC is intended to run across Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Japan has announced financial support to an extent of $ 4.5 billion in the first phase of the DMIC, while JBIC’s 26 per cent equity shares in DMICDC aggregates to Rs. 26 crore. Similarly, the Japan International Cooperation Agency has been appointed as the nodal agency for implementation of Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor.

Early Retirement for Slipshod BabusSending a clear message that inefficiency or a bad

reputation on account of probity would mean retirement kicking in almost a decade in advance for senior government officials, the Central Government has now strengthened the review processes to compulsorily retire such officers. Issuing guidelines to all ministries, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has stated that services of those government officials which are no longer useful to the general administration or whose integrity and reputation is doubtful, must be compulsorily retired from service. As per an existing rule FR 56 (J) which has been rarely enforced, the performance of Group A and B officials who have completed 50 years and junior officials who have completed 55 years of age must be reviewed and a decision taken whether to compulsorily retire them before turning 60. Citing Supreme Court judgements, DoPT has stated that integrity of an employee, action or decisions taken by the employee which do not appear to be above board, complaints received against him or suspicious property

transactions, for which sufficient evidence may not be there to initiate departmental proceedings should be the factors considered to decide on prematurely retiring an officer. Similarly, reports of conduct unbecoming of a government servant may also form basis for compulsorily retirement. The government has reconstituted review committees to look into cases of officers turning 50 or 55 years as the case may be. Secretary of the concerned department will head a review committee in case of ACC appointees while in case of senior appointees in boards like CBDT and CBEC, the review committee will be headed by the chairman of such board. An additional secretary or joint secretary will head review committees in cases of junior officials. The Central Vigilance Officer will be a part of the committee if an integrity issue is involved. All reviews will be done six months before the official turns 50 or 55 years as the case may be.

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NEWS FROM STATESJharkhand

Saksham YojanaIn order to foster skilling initiatives in the State, the

Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Society (JSDMS) has decided to implement a new scheme for skill training, the Saksham Jharkhand Kaushal Vikas Yojana under pilot phase from October 2015 to March 2016. The scheme aims to provide wage/self employment-linked skills training which is compliant with National Skills Qualifications Framework and in line with the Common Norms notified by the Ministry of Skill Development

and Entrepreneurship. The goal of the scheme is to provide industry validated and market relevant skills in high-impact sectors identified for the State, which would help beneficiaries in obtaining wage or self employment leading to increased earnings, and/or improved working conditions, and/or opportunities to move from informal to formal work sectors. The primary objectives of JSDMS are to: (i) increase employability of the youth and empower them to take part in the economic growth of Jharkhand and India, through chalking out a roadmap of providing professional and skill training in modern and market driven professions at

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Quotable Quotes• Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see—Benjamin

Franklin• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you

are not—Andre Gide• When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over

what it has left—Sufi Epigram• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative—Oscar Wilde• In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it—

George Bernard Shaw• You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than

your faith-- Mary Manin Morrissey Editor : Dr. Tishya ChaTTerjee

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reasonable cost and monitoring its delivery, and thereby reduce unemployment, under employment, poverty and socio- economic inequality; (ii) monitor the quality of training imparted to produce targeted number of high quality skilled personnel across various strata of youth and workers, especially from amongst the disadvantaged sections of the society; (iii) develop self employment and entrepreneurial skills for youths of Jharkhand; (iv) prepare a roadmap to provide skill development training to the youth of the State; (v) assist in creating an enabling environment to attract investment in professional and skill development sector; (vi) assist the State Government in formulating appropriate policy, legislations and/or measures to fulfill the skill gap; (vii) create effective convergence between school education, professional courses and various skill development efforts of Central

and State Governments; (viii) promote and carry out, on its own or on behalf of the State Government, activities to generate awareness, research and study on skill demand.

Kerala

Kaushal KendrasThe State Government has decided to implement

the placement-linked employment programme through kaushal kendras that would generate 50000 job opportunities in a year. Kaushal kendra is the second community skill park in the State, set up as part of renovation activity of the public library. The Kendra aims to equip the youth to meet the challenges of international market. The centre is set up under the Kerala academy of skills excellence spending Rs. one crore.