CII-Young Indians Annual Report 2009-2010

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message from...

...the president, CII

VenuSriniVaSan

President CII &

Managing Director,

Sundaram-Clayton

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Dear Yi Colleagues,

CIIs theme for the year 2009-10 laid emphasis on

Economy, Infrastructure & Governance. I am happy to

note that Young Indians have taken forward CIIs theme

this year by undertaking a number of programmes &

initiatives in these areas. These include a number of

interactive sessions with distinguished luminaries on

the economic downturn, opportunities and strategies

for revival; awareness campaigns to promulgate good

governance & participative citizenship.

The National Youth Policy, 2003 outlines the commitment

of the entire nation to the composite and all-round

development of the young sons and daughters of India

and seeks to establish an all-India perspective to fulll

their legitimate aspirations so that they are all strong

of heart and strong of body and mind in successfully

accomplishing the challenging tasks of nation building

and social transformation that lie ahead. For India to stay

in the mainstream of overall development, it is imperative

to ensure the effective pursuit of youth development

programmes which promote personality development

and enhance commitment to community service, social

justice, self reliance and national integration. Yi embodies

all these elements and much more.

Yi, being an inclusive organisation that focuses on building

itself as the voice of young Indians globally, has evolved

a position of being a key player in the developmental

imperatives for India through innovation & discussion. Yi

has engaged its members in generating awareness on

signicant and relevant matters. I congratulate the Young

Indians for their focus, energy and enthusiasm.

Yi has shown its tremendous growth potential this year by

increasing its spread within the country as well as through

its depth of activities. The commitment on part of the Yi

Chairman & Vice Chairman in engaging the youth in the

various activities of Yi is indeed a commendable feat. I

take this opportunity to felicitate the entire team of Young

Indians led by Dr Rahul Mirchandani. I believe that in the

coming years Yi would grow as a strong organisation and

move forward with a rm resolve of carrying forward its

goal & spirit of We Can, We Will. I look forward to an even

larger engagement of Yi in leading India into the future.

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...the national chairman, Yi

rahulMirchandani

National

Chairman, CIIs

Young Indians &

Executive Director,

Aries Agro Limited

To all my friends at Yi

Yi has had a superb year. It is with great pleasure that I

present to you ourFourth Annual Reportthat captures

the breadth and impact of our activities across each of

Yis chapters, platforms and initiatives.

I must begin by appreciating the energy, enthusiasm and

zest of every Yi ofce bearer, Yi member and the team of

Executive members who have collectively made this year

so successful.

This was Yis year of scaling up. We launchednine

new chapters during the year at Thiruvananthapuram,

Guwahati, Erode, Vishakapatnam, Goa, Raipur, Srinagar,

Baroda and Madurai. We now have established a

presence in 25 cities with a total of1200 members.

The choice of these new locations demonstrates our

commitment to ensure that Young Indians even in smaller

towns are provided with access to a platform like Yi that

connects them with Industry and Young in Business

across India.

In addition, we have a strong and fast growing

membership base of4000 students drawn from59 Yi

Student Networks across India, 160 members across

3 corporate chapters and 8500 young farmers

enrolled through 2 Yi Farmers Nets.

We have rolled out a total of602 events and activities

during the year. This works out to an average of close

to 2 events a day. All of these activities were aligned to

Yis platforms and initiatives of education, environment,

employability, governance, art-culture-sport, healthcare,

youth affairs, farmer nets and next practices. Yis work

during the year has directlyimpacted over 6 lakhs

people. This is the rst year that we have started tracking

the member engagement and impact numbers for each

of our activities, with the objective of setting specic

benchmarks for us to evaluate the quantitative reach and

qualitative success of our efforts.

Nationally, Yi had a good mix of agship events. The

Indian Parliament Simulation at Kochi was a superb

experience for over 150 students who lived the role

of an elected parliamentarian, engaged in rigorously

researched discussion and constructive debate on

15 Indian issues, with the hope of understanding the

parliamentary system and nding possible solutions to

unique Indian problems. This provided extraordinaryleadership training and was a successful experiment to

get youth from 19 cities interested in looking at politics

as a career choice. In addition, the Yi Retreatat Tirupati

had a heady mix of some memorable trekking, adventure

sports and spiritual experiences.

OurOverseas Delegation to the United Kingdom met

with Lord Meghnand Desai at The House of Lords, Sir

Thomas Harris at Standard Chartered Bank and had an

interactive session with the UKIBC Next Gen Entrepreneurs.

We also had an interesting session on Innovation andEntrepreneurship with students at Oxford University. Yi had

its rst International Road Show in London and briefed

young overseas Indians on engaging with India as a crucial

stakeholder. Following this, we hosted a group of exchange

students from Oxford, Cambridge and London School of

Economics in Mumbai and interacted with the UK Deputy

High Commissioner, Ms Vicki Treadell on the Challenges of

Doing Business in India.

Yi also continuously engaged with key persons in

Government including Mr Rahul Gandhi, Mr ArunMaira, Mr Nandan Nilekani, Mr Shashi Tharoor, Ms

Supriya Sule, Ms Meenakshi Natarajan among many

others. The objective was to keep these key inuencers

appraised about Yi, our vision and our goals andseek

opportunities to work together with Government to

initiate and scale up activities and projects. We also had

the opportunity to carry out extensive voting awareness

campaigns before the National & State elections in 5

cities, with the highlight being our interaction with the

Chief Election Commissioner of India, Mr Navin Chawla,

in Mumbai, before the Maharashtra Assembly Elections.


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Our Green-I - Yi Environment contest once again

highlighted ways to make school campuses more

environmentally sensitive. Over a 100 schools developed

working models for building more sustainable buildings.

In the education area, Yi has carried out an extensive

efcacy study for Yi Akshara our learning resource

centre for school children. The Yi Education team has

also initiated the process of customizing and localizingAkshara modules. We also have preparatory programs

underway that make children in urban slums ready for

entry to a formal schooling system. World Food Day was

observed across the country with 14 Yi chapters working

together for the rst time on a single standardized Yi

Healthcare project on a single day. The Healthcare

initiative also saw sessions and workshops on stress

management, lifestyle diseases, HIV, diabetes, heart

diseases, swine u, yoga and alternative medicine.

Employability is one of Indias key concerns. Yi hasscaled up its work in the Skills development area

by conducting Yi Labs programs focused on the

hospitality, food and retail sectors. In addition we have

also commenced work on piloting world class skills

certifcation programs in the Logistics and Agriculture

sectors. These programs will improve the employability

prospects of youth involved in these sectors and also

plug some crucial skills gaps that exist in these areas.

I have had the pleasure of personally visiting 17 of

Yis chapters during the year. The Coimbatore Vizha,Entrepreneurship conclaves, Yi Kochis EnYironmend

campaign, Dream City Projects, Regional Retreats, the

Aero Modelling show, among many other unique events

have immense potential for engaging members and the

wider stakeholder communities and should ideally be

scaled up. Our 3 corporate chapters at Infosys, MCX

and Impetus Technologies have done good work in the

areas of women empowerment, life skills to urban poor,

micronance and healthcare. Yis chapters also helped

rehabilitation of ood victims in Bihar and provided timely

ood relief in Andhra Pradesh.

Yi Youth Affairs continues to engage students with

meaningful projects and activities. Our students across

53 student networks have conceptualized and executed

projects that focus on leadership training, skill building

and community service. The Yi Youth Affairs program

trains students, connects them with Industry and

Young leaders, enables nation building initiatives and

challenges them to think big and think different. It is also

key to shaping young minds and preparing Yis future

membership base.

Yi Farmer Nets currently involve over 8500 young,

progressive farmers in knowledge sharing platforms. The

years theme for both the networks supported by Aries Agro

Limited and Galla Foods was building a dialogue towards

evolving a framework for Indian Good Agricultural practices

(Indo-GAP). Over 175 knowledge dissemination activities

were undertaken across 11 states impacting over 11000

farmers and rural children from agricultural communities.These events exposed farmers to best practices using study

tours and workshops, connected them with Agricultural

Universities and also educated Rural school students in over

65 secondary schools on latest agricultural practices that

will help improve productivity and consequently improve the

ecosystem of wealth creation in rural communities. Yi also

surveyed over 800 farmers net members and prepared a

comprehensive document that captured ways that Young

farmers are affected by and coping with Climate Change.

This report was prepared for the Copenhagen Summit.

We also conducted two very successful National Agromax

conferences in Guwahati, Assam and in Hissar, Haryana.

Together these two agship events had close to 4000

young farmers in attendance and had a galaxy of over 40

speakers and involved 5 State Governments, 9 Agricultural

Universities and many agribusiness corporates. Farmers

were also provided with commodity prices, crop advisories

and weather alerts throughout the year using mobile phone

text messages. Yi has also begun an iterative process

of identifying 10 farmers each year who have achieved

superlative levels of productivity and documenting and

evangelizing these innovative crop management methods

as Farming Next Practices.

The pursuit of Innovation and the identication of game

changing ideas is key to ensuring development of sectors

and also offer investment opportunities for companies. Yi

Next Practices provided a platform to energize young

inventors to showcase their path breaking technologies

and prototypes. We did this with the India Innovation

Initiative (i3) in partnership with Department of Science &

Technology- Government of India and the CII. Of several

innovations showcased in an exhibition, 10 were picked

up by IIM-Ahmedabad for a year long incubation program.

We have also partnered with Dell and UTVi for a year long

national business plan contest titled Take your Own Path

to provide an opportunity for students with innovative

business plans to move fromideas to enterprise.

Several efforts were also made to strengthen member

communication using periodical Yi Link, the Yi Ning forum

and other online social networks set up nationally and at

each chapter. These have kept the Yi membership, select CII

members and other stakeholders up-to-date on Yis progress


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Young Indians (Yi) is an integral part of the

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII),

Indias premier business association,

formed in the year 2002, with an objective of

creating a platform for young Indians to realize

the dream of a developed nation. With the

vision To become the voice of young Indians

globally, its key differentiator is that it engages

Young Indians in areas that focus on Beyond

Just Business. Yi is a grass root organisation

that focuses on issues of national importance

in the developmental agenda of India through

Advocacy, Awareness & Action & engages

youth through various initiatives, platforms &

peer leadership activities. Yi is instrumental in

developing successful projects across the focus

areas of primary education, environment,

primary healthcare and employability.

Yis member base has emerged as a vibrant

group of progressive young Indians who have

come together from diverse backgrounds. It

is an inclusive organisation that has over 1200

direct members in 25 Chapters & includes

young progressive Indians between thetheo

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age group of 25 & 40 years. Yi motivates a

generational change & inspires pride in every

young Indian by engaging them in shaping the

future of India. Yi is

An organisation of progressive Young

Indians from all walks of life engaging

1200 members from 25 Chapters across

India, 4000 students from 59 educational

institutions throughout India and 8500

young & progressive farmers from 11

different states.

An organisation that motivates a

generational change & inspires pride in

every young Indian by engaging them in

shaping the future of India.

A grass roots organisation that focuseson issues of national importance in the

developmental agenda of India through

Action, Awareness and Advocacy by

engaging youth through various initiatives,

platforms and peer leadership activities.

Leadership

Development

Individual

Development

Learning &

Knowledge Sharing

Peer Leadership

National and

International

Partnerships

Initiatives

Education Employability

Environment

Healthcare

Governance and

Value-based Leadership

Platforms

Student Nets Farmer Nets

Next Practices

Engagement for

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an aim to engage young employees of

companies towards social development

work and to help align the CSR activities of the

company with Yis nation building objectives.

The Yi Corporate Chapter:

Allows Corporate Chapter employees to

interact with Yi members across the country

Allows participation in Learning events and

activities of Yi local City ChapterAllows access to Yi-organised national

level learning events

Allows employees to conduct projects in the

Yi focus areas facilitated and mentored by Yi

Facilitates and supports the work in focus areas

that are chosen by the Corporate Chapter

Allows alignment of CSR initiative of a

company with the activities of Yi which

can prove to be mutually benecial

Helps create sustainable & scalable Next

Practices through projects that can be

shared through Yis India@75 platform

Helps create social awareness around

social entrepreneurship and enables new

social entrepreneurship ideas

Promotes thought leadership amongst

employees through engagement in various

processes of nation building

Provides a platform to work in the various

areas of social issues within the country like

areas pertaining to Education, Life Skills,

Women Empowerment, Micro nance,

Healthcare and Environment

iNFYi the Corporate Chapter of Yi with Infosys,

Bangalore has been instrumental in

Organising awareness campaigns on

micronance

Organising Zing Programme to connect

rural Bangalore with the urban economy in

Bangalore

Running many programmes on usage of

IT in helping NGOs in garnering peoples

support for public governance

Running programmes on better waste

management

Successfully distributing de-worming

tablets to 3000 students and conducting

free dental camps for children in the city,

under its healthcare initiative AAROGYA.

Helping rehabilitate ood victims of Bihar

The Yi - Impetus Corporate Chapter has been

instrumental in working in the areas of

Computer literacy class for old age people

under employability initiative, the role of

Impetus is to prepare course and deploy

corporate members for taking classes on

weekends

Establishing E-libraries for prominent schools

in the city for creating a readily available

database for school children

Working in the area of developing

infrastructure for various city based NGO

working in the domain of healthcare

Developing software and database for

mobile ANSH project a program that

brings together people willing to donate

blood free of cost to the needy

Activities undertaken by MCX, this year

Donation Drive - distributing old clothes,

toys and books to children in association

with city-based NGO

Conducted Painting & Rangoli Competition;

The FT Groups support for needy drive in

aid of Helen Keller Institute for Deaf & Blind

Organised a National Convention of

Global Compact Network encouraging

focus on Human Rights & Anti-Corruption

Dr Rahul Mirchandani, Yi National Chairman with Mr

Venkatraman, Executive Director, MCX - SX and Mr Lamon

Rutter, MD & CEO, MCX - SX at the launch of the CII - YiCorporate Chapter at MCX, Mumbai

Mr. Amit Bidasaria, Co-Chair, Yi Indore Chapter, at the launch

of Yi Impetus Corporate chapter in Indore

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change

Presently, Yi has three Corporate Chapters:

Infosys Technologies, Bangalore

(INFYi) (100 members)

Impetus Infotech Pvt Ltd, Indore

(30 members)

The MCX, Mumbai

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Coimbatore Vizha 2010

From 2nd to 10th January, Yi Coimbatore

Chapter in association with 50 other

organisations and institutions organised the

second edition of Coimbatore Vizha. Vizha 2010

had over 65 events under different sections like

Exhibitions, Sports, Talks & Lectures on Ecology &

Environment, Music & Dance, Health, Cuisine andmany contests spread across a span of 9 days.

Over 4 Lakh people enjoyed and experienced

the spirit of Coimbatore through the Vizha 2010.

Coimbatore Vizha was an effort to celebrate the

spirit of the city its heritage, industrial legacy,

entrepreneurial spirit, hospitable, honest culture

and the multi-cultural ethnic conuence.

24-25 June 2009

Yi delegation to the United Kingdom

A 15-member Yi Delegation led by Dr Rahul

Mirchandani, National Chairman, visited

London, UK on 24-25 June 2009.

Chief Election Commissioner of India at St Xaviers

College, Mumbai. Youth is the Ambassador for

a Healthy Electoral Process was organised to

create awareness amongst the youth on their

role in the electoral process. This was the main

emphasis of Mr Chawlas address to students

of St Xaviers College, Narsee Monjee Instituteof Management Studies, Government Law

College, K J Somaiya College of Commerce,

AICAR Business School, Vidyalankar and other

institutions who participated in the interaction.

18-21 October 2009, Kashmir

Tryst with Kashmir

Yi organised an eight-member special

delegation to Gulmarg and Srinagar. The

delegation met with Mr Omar Abdullah, Chief

Minister of Jammu & Kashmir and Mr Haseeb A

Drabu, Chairman & Chief Executive, J&K Bank.

The Chief Minister expressed his happiness at

Yis initiatives and requested Yi to consider

opening a Chapter in Srinagar.

Mr Navin Chawla, Chief Election Commissioner of India

addressing students and Yi Net members at St Xaviers College

in Mumbai

Yi UK Mission delegates with Lord Meghnad Desai at the

House of Lords

Yi delegation interacting with Mr Omar Abdullah, Chief

Minister, Jammu & Kashmir

Positioned as enterprising brand ambassadors

of New Age India and Indian Business, the

delegation met like-minded Next Gen business,

social and political leaders of UK. The aim of

this delegation was to bring together young

entrepreneurs from both the countries andto reinforce the theme of Yi while building

bridges between both Young Businesses and

Young in Business. The representatives shared

knowledge on Indian entrepreneurship, business

strategy, which at present stands on the theme

of successful entrepreneurship in scarcity.

6 October 2009, Mumbai

Interaction with CEC

Yi organised an interaction for college students

and Yi net members with Mr Navin Chawla,

9 May 2009, Delhi

Interaction with Young Political Leaders

Yi Delhi Chapter organised an interaction with

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Young India on 9 May. In the heat of elections,

the session was on the format of a political debate

that included representation from Congress,

Bhartiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India

and an independent candidate. The sessionwas recorded and telecast by Headlines Today.

Around 80 members and guests attended the

interactive debate.

31 October 2009, Coimbatore

DREAM Coimbatore

The DREAM Coimbatore project was launched

as a prelude to the CIIs District Development

Conference. Painting competitions, essay

writing competitions, short lm contests and

photography contests were conducted and

posters distributed. The posters were formally

launched by Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, former

President of India, on 13 August 2009 at PSG

College of Technology, Coimbatore to an

audience of 5000 students.

26-28 November 2009, Mumbai

2nd World Young Leaders Forum

Yi partners the BMW Foundation HerbertQuandt, in organising the Indo German Young

Leaders Forums in Germany and India. The

Foundation organised the 2nd World Young

Leaders Forum where Yi invited Mr Jamshyd

N Godrej, Chairman and Managing Director,

Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company

Limited and former President CII and Mr

Nachiket Mor, President, ICICI Foundation for

Inclusive Growth to address participants.

27 November 2009

India@75: A Vision of India as a Global

Leader by the Year 2022

At the 2nd World Young Leaders Forum heldat the YB Chavan Auditorium, the session was

addressed by Honble Shri Nandan Nilekani,

Chairman of the Unique Identication Authority of

India and former Chairman, Infosys Technologies

Ltd, who spoke about the plan and process for

providing the unique identication number for

every Indian citizen. This was followed by a panel

discussion moderated by Mr Rajan Navani,

Managing Director, Jetline Group of Companies

& Chairman, CII Mission on India@75 with panelists

GV Sanjay Reddy, Vice Chairman, GVK Power

& Infrastructure Limited & Founder Chairman,

CIIs Young Indians; Mr Niranjan Hiranandani,

Managing Director, Hiranandani Constructions

Pvt Ltd; and, Dr Uma Ganesh CEO, Global Talent

Track Pvt Ltd, on India@75: A Vision of India as a

Global Leader by the Year 2022.

L to R: Dr R Rudramoorthy, Principal PSG college of

Technology; Mr Ravi Sam, Chairman, CII Coimbatore Zone;

Mr G Rangaswamy, Trustee PSG college of Technology;

Honble Dr APJ Abdul Kalam & Mr Arjun Prakash, Chairman, Yi

Coimbatore Chapter

Honble Shri Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique

Identication Authority of India & former Chairman, Infosys

Technologies Ltd at the session on India@75: A Vision of India

as a Global Leader by the Year 2022

Engaging with Policy Makers

Interaction with Omar Abdullah,

Srinagar, 19 October, 2009

Interaction with Arun Maira, Delhi

3 September, 2009

Interaction with Supriya Sule, Pune

14 September, 2009

Interaction with Rahul Gandhi, Delhi,

19 November, 2009

Interaction with Meenakshi Natrajan,

Delhi, 8 December, 2009


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Yiconducts learning sessions with

eminent personalities for self-

development of members. The

learning programmes include industrial visits,

seminars, workshops and panel discussions on

topics of relevance and interest to the members.

Pathnder, a strategy cum direction-setting

workshop is conducted at the beginningof each year. This year the 3rd edition of the

Pathnder workshop was organised on 14-15

March 2009 at Integrated Institute of Learning

& Management, Gurgaon. 40 Yi members

from the Yi leadership team at the national

and Chapter level participated. The Pathnder

helped members in charting out the work plan

and processes for the year under the various

platforms, initiatives, organisations and events.

29 April 2009, KolkataInteractive Session with Mr Baichung Bhutia

CII Yi Kolkata Chapter organised An

Evening with Mr Baichung Bhutia, Captain

Indian Football team. He spoke about

Infrastructural drawbacks in Indian Football.

Over 50 participants attended the session

and interacted with their favourite Indian

footballer.

3 August 2009, GuwahatiAn interaction on Empowering Youth through

Skill Development

Yi Guwahati Chapter organised an

interaction on Empowering Youth through Skill

Development which was chaired by Mr Abhijit

Barooah, Immediate Past Chairman, CII Assam

State Council. Other panelists included Ms

Left: Mr Nalin Kohli, National Convenor, BJP Media Cell; Mr Atul Anjan, Secretary, National Council, Communist Party of India; Mr

Rahul Kanwal, moderator of the session and Executive Editor, Headlines Today; Ms Bhairavi Jani, Yi National Co-Chair; Mr Rahul

Chawla, Yi Delhi Chapter Chair; Ms Meera Sanyal, Independent Candidate, Mumbai South Constituency & Chairperson & CEO,

ABN Amro Bank; and, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Power, Public Health & Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Haryana Government, atthe Yi Delhi learning session on Challenges before Young India

Middle: Yi Ahmedabad members at the mission to Coca-Cola Factory at Goblej village in Ahmedabad

rgt: Dr Pawan G Agarwal, CEO of the Mumbai Dabbawala Association addressing the Yi Delhi members at a session on

Masters of Supply Chain Management

Bhairavi Jani, National Vice Chair, Young Indians;

Mr Toby Burton, Global Education Head, CISCO

Systems and Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Immediate

Past Chairman, NASSCOM and Vice Chairman

and CEO of Zensar Technologies.

14 September 2009, Pune

Interaction with Ms Supriya Sule

Young Indians Pune organised an interactive

session with Ms Supriya Sule, Member of

Parliament, Lok Sabha. Ms Sule felicitated Yi for

the work it had undertaken in the past & urged

the Yi members to take the onus and work for the

betterment of Pune and the country at large.

14 September 2009, Chennai

Interaction with the US Consulate

This interaction, attended by Yi members &

other ofcials from the Consulate, was aimed

at giving valuable inputs to the US Commercial

Consulate on the opportunities that Chennai as

a city offers, other business trends in the country

and various aspects of conducting business in

India with the American organisations.

19 November 2009, Delhi

Session on Art of Leadership with Secretary

William S Cohen with Aspen Institute India

The session with the Former United States

Secretary of Defense expounded the art of

leadership and the many components of

Leadership like intelligence, self condence,

knowledge, ability to motivate & inspire,

perseverance, sharing credit, keeping an

open mind, ability to look at things differently

which largely depend on place, time and the

prevalent culture.


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Members of Yi Kolkata chapter with Ace Indian Footballer, Mr

Baichung Bhutia at a learning session

L to R: Ms Bhairavi Jani, Vice Chair Yi National, Secretary

William S Cohen, Former United States Secretary of Defense

& Mr Gautam Thapar, Chairman & CEO, Avantha Group andChairman, Aspen Institute India

Excellence and Learning Missions

April 2009 Delhi Yi Delhi Mission to DIAL

August 2009 Ahmedabad Yi Manufacturing Excellence Mission to Coca-Cola

September 2009 Guwahati Sarala Birla Gyan Jyoti v isi ted Yi Non Formal School for underprivi legedChildren Deepjyoti to interact with the school children

Interaction with Indian Diplomats & Policticians

May 2009 Delhi Yi Session on The Challenges before Young India

June 2009 Thiruvananthapuram Felicitation to Dr Shashi Tharoor

August 2009 Coimbatore Meeting with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

September 2009 Coimbatore Interactive session with Mr Rahul Gandhi

September 2009 Pune Interactive session with Ms Supriya Sule

November 2009 Kochi Interaction with Dr Subramanian Swamy

Interaction with International Delagations, Diplomats & Policticians

April 2009 Indore Yi Session on US Sharing Business Excellence

April 2009 Bhubaneshwar Interaction with members of the Know India programme

July 2009 Chennai Interaction with British High Commissioner

September 2009 Mumbai Interaction with Cambridge, Oxford and London School of Economics, MrAlyque Padamsee and the British Dy High Commissioner on Challenges ofdoing business with India

November 2009 Delhi Session on Art of Leadership with Secretary Willam S Cohen

January 2010 Mumbai Harvard University Treck

Seminars & Workshops

April 2009 Kolkata An evening with Mr Baichung Bhutia

April 2009 Coimbatore Session with Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev at Isha Foundation

June 2009 Coimbatore Star Trek I Session with two frst generation entrepreneurs

June 2009 Chennai Interaction with Mr Gurumurthy, Corporate Advisor and popular columnist

July 2009 Coimbatore Super Congress Young for a United World

August 2009 Guwahati Empowering Youth through Skill Development - Interactive session withDr Ganesh Natarajan, Vice Chairman, Zensar Technologies, Toby Burton,Global Education Head, Cisco Systems and Ms Bhairavi Jani, NationalVice Chair, Yi

August 2009 Coimbatore Star Trek II Session with two frst generation entrepreneurs

August 2009 Delhi Yi session on Leadership

September 2009 Delhi Session on Supply Chain Management with Mumbai Dabbawala Association

October 2009 Coimbatore Interactive session with Mr M V Subbiah

October 2009 Ahmedabad Young Indians Panel Discussion Entrepreneurship in frst 1000 days

November 2009 Yi National Yi session at the Second World Young Leaders Forum

December 2009 Coimbatore Session on From Mill ions to Bil lions Dr Martin Haeming, InternationalVenture Captialistist

December 2009 Hyderabad Learning session

December 2009 Indore Yi Indore session on Entrepreneur Motivation


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The two basic processes of education

are knowing and valuing. At Yi,

education as a resource is used

to enhance students faculties and achieve

their overall growth and development through

myriad initiatives, thereby enriching their

horizons and providing them opportunities for

holistic well being. Unique educational models

and one-to-one student teacher interactions

further hone the learning process.

Yi Akshara

Akshara is a primary learning resource centre.

Currently there are 51 centres at 10 locations

covering 15000 students with 174 Learning

materials in 90 bilingual languages sourced

from NGOs across the country that supplement

primary education of class 1 to 5, supported

by 200 teachers. Akshara is based on a unique

model where teachers are given training to

impart knowledge to the children. Yi got an

Akshara evaluation done to check the efcacy

of the programme. The idea behind this survey

was to assess, across stakeholders, the extent

to which the objectives of Akshara had been

met during the previous year. The survey, that

was done in partnership with IMRB international,

found the improvement areas that Yi has been

following for its Aksharas. The survey covered

400 participants from eight Chapters comprising

parents, teachers, principals and Yi members.The conclusion of the report was:

The key objective of Akshara to facilitate

students to achieve decent outcomes in their

learning and increase interest in the school

was well achieved by this programme

Students had shown a marked improvement

across most aspects of learning

Teaching had become easier, given the

higher interest levels/participation among

students

Yi Indore Rangwasa Project

Yi Indore Chapter adopted a school named Sri

Satya Sai Seva High School at Rangwasa Village.

This has involved infrastructure development,

deputing faculty to visit the school in every

fortnight to help students with major subject like

English, Mathematics and science and organising

general health check camps, deworming drives

and an aero modeling show for the students.

Yi also planted 100 trees around the school,

organised sports day, and, towards computer

literacy, has provided ve computers to the

school in addition to introducing the computer

course at primary level. To encourage sports

activities a sports kit was provided to the school.

The spread of Akshara across Chapters and the

activities over the previous year, are as follows:

City No of Aksharas Operating

Ahmedabad 2

Bangalore 1

Chennai 17

Chittoor 1

Coimbatore 7

Delhi 4

Hyderabad 2

Kolkata 2

Kochi 10Mumbai 2

Pune 2

Activity

Apr 2009 Yi Kids Art Camp

Jun 2009 Inauguration of Yi non formal school

for underprivileged children

Jun 2009 Old school bag collection campaign

Jul 2009 Rangwasa School Project (Indore)

Jul 2009 Launch of 2nd Yi Akshara

Jul 2009 Yi Aero Modeling Show

Aug 2009 Launch of 3rd Yi Akshara

Aug 2009 Launch of Yi Akshara

Oct 2009 Support for 4th, 5th & 6th Yi Akshara

(Maintenance of Akshara)

Nov 2009 Yi Children Day Celebrations

Dec 2009 Christmas Carnival at an orphanage

Jan 2010 Interactive session with 4

underprivileged schools

Jan 2010 E-Library at Bright Public School

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T

he biggest gift a nation can impart to

its citizens is employment. Yi recognises

the initiative of healthy employment

and actively contributes to generation of

fresh opportunities. Leadership development

programmes, skill enhancing workshops,

livelihood awareness programmes and so on

enable the youth to rediscover their innate

potentials and contribute actively to the Gross

Domestic Production as a vital human resource.

Dr. Reddys Foundation (DRF) under a specic

program called LABS has formulated a process

of ensuring employment to the underprivileged

youth. LABS (Livelihood Advancement Business

School) promotes tailor-made programmes

targeted at youth in the age group of 18-

30 years from economically weaker sections

of society, enabling them to gain access to

opportunities for sustainable livelihoods. 1688

students have been skilled so far.

Courses that were offered to the students under

this programme:

Customer Relation & Sales (Pune, Mumbai,Chennai)

Hospitality (Pune, Mumbai, Chennai )

IT enabled Services (Pune , Mumbai )

Bedside Patient Assistance (Pune)

White Good Services (Chennai)

Trained students have been placed at Shoppers

Stop, Pizza Hut, Mc Donalds, CA Firms, Ruby Hall

Hospital, Sancheti Hospital, Sun N Sand Hotels,

Aurora Towers, Eureka Forbes, Airtel, Bakers

Basket, Goel Ganga Group, Corianthan Clubs,Dominos, KFC and HDFC Tele-calling.

Yi Pune

Yi Pune Chapters Yi PCC LABS successfully

completed its tenth batch of LABS (Livelihood

Advancement Business School) on 15 April 2009.

Yi Punes LABs has successfully completed the

three batches of training this year . A valedictory

session of the twelfth batch was held on 8

January 2009 at LABS Center, Swargate, Pune.

nurturingtalen

t

A Yi Kids Art Camp was also organised from

the 13th to the 15th of April for children within

the age group of 4 to 14. A valedictory session

was held on 30 Dec 2009 within the campus of

Zensar for the rst time.

Yi Mumbai

Five batches of 700 youth have been trainedso far in LABs Mumbai in the elds of hospitality

and Customer relation and IT. The sixth batch of

40 youth are undergoing training in Mumbai.

Yi Chennai

Yi Chennai Chapter started its rst batch

of Yi LABS for 100 under-privileged youth.

The inaugural programme of the LABS was

conducted on 18 May 2009. Sessions on team

building, management of nance, etiquette and

manners, Communicative English & Personality

Development were organsied for the students

undergoing training at the LABS training centres.

Yi & youthnet sericulture training program

Yi Kohima along with Youth Net and Department

of Sericulture, Govt of Nagaland, facilitated a

Training Program for 14 youngsters on Spinning

of Yarn at the District Sericulture Training

Centre at Dimapur, from 22nd June to 1st July

2009. YouthNet in partnership with Yi and theDepartment of Sericulture Nagaland is in the

process of setting up a Reeling and Spinning

of silk yarn unit at YouthNet ofce Kohima,

with an objective to generate employment

opportunity, where all the 14 members would

be trained and will be part of the unit.

Below: Yi PCC LABSValedictory Session of IX Batch

Bottom: Mr Anand Pakkurti, Chairman, Yi Chennai at the

inauguration of the Yi LABS Centre in Chennai


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Conservation and preservation of the

environment is the moral duty of

every conscientious citizen. Through

events on saving energy to summits on global

warming, from waste management workshops

to plantation drives, wildlife conservation

to Green Buildings, Yi believes in catching

them young that this learning stays with them

through life. It offers a platform to people to

offer perspectives on the environment as well

as sensitise them towards their social and moral

responsibilities towards the environment.

9 September 2009, Hyderabad

Green-I Contest: Yi organised the third edition

of the Green-I contest 2009 along with the Indian

Green Building Council & Carrier. The Green-I is an

annual contest that aims at creating awareness

and instills environmental responsibility among

future citizens of the country. This years topic

was Evaluating various measures that can be

taken to reduce the schools carbon footprint.

The contest received 130 entries from schools

across India. Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

from Kolkata won the rst prize followed by

Vasant Valley School from New Delhi.

Celebrating World Environment Day

Ahmedabad: Yi Ahmedabad undertook an

environmental awareness programme at Vaisamo

Kids Foundation with 60 underprivileged students

from Vaisamo Kids and Sparsh Foundation.

Hyderabad: A Tree Plantation Drive was organised

on the World Environment Day at Indian School

of Business & Glendale Academy, where 200

Gulmohour and Jatropha plants were planted.

toward

ssustainability

Chandigarh: Yi Chandigarh organised an

awareness session on climate change at the

Regional Institute of Cooperative Management.

Screening of documentaries, An Inconvenient

Truth and CIIs Climate Change and how it

affects our health, was the outlining agenda.

27-29 November 2009, Indore

Wildlife Conservation: Towards wildlife

conservation sensitisation, Yi Indore organised

a three-day members retreat to Kanha Kilse,

Tiger Reserve.

29 August, 2009, Delhi

Environment Awareness

Yi Delhi organised a session on How to Grow

Your Own Fresh Air. Mr. Kamal Meattle, ChiefExecutive Ofcer, Paharpur Business Centre &

Software Technology Incubator Park, gave a very

vehement presentation on the topic of energy

conservation. He apprised the members on the

aspects of water scarcity and global warming

and its impact on India. He shared that the need

of the hour was to look at educating people,

particularly children, about the initiatives that

can be taken to reduce the carbon emissions

and environmental hazardous activities.

Eco Steps

Eco Steps is a green advocation and activity

portal developed and launched by Yi

Thiruvananthapuram. Eco Steps through its

website gives one simple step, one action that

one can practice to save our environment and

allows signed up members to vote for the step if

one has been practicing it.

Children at the Tree plantation drive organised on the world

environment day at the Indian School of Business, organised

by Yi Hyderabad Chapter

Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Kolkata Winners of the

Green I contest 2009, receiving the award from Mr K Rosaiah,

Chief Minister Andhra Pradesh


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promoting

wellnes

s

Below: 8th Consecutive Dental camp by Yi at P J Guptas

Higher Secondary School, Chennai

Bottom: Bengali Cine Star Ms Paoli Dam distributing food

packets to school children as part of the Yi Kolkata World

Food Day Initiative

Seminars and workshops

Apr 2009 Healthcare Workshop (Hyderabad)

May 2009 Workshop on Diabetes (Mumbai)

May 2009 Yoga and Healthcare (Indore)

Jun 2009 Workshop on Disaster Management &

First Aid (Mumbai)

Jul 2009 Basic Life Support - Healthcare

(Chennai)

Jul 2009 CPR Session (Coimbatore)

Jul 2009 Yi Organic Dinner (Chandigarh)

Aug 2009 Awareness Session on Swine Flu

(Coimbatore)

Aug 2009 Awareness Campaign On Swine Flu

(Chandigarh)

Aug 2009 Stress Management workshop

(Mumbai)

Sep 2009 Interactive session with Dr Anil Lamba

(Pune)

Sep 2009 Meeting with MGM Dean on

Healthcare programs (Indore)

Nov 2009 Visit to Sri Ramachandra Medical

College and Research Institute

(Chennai)

Nov 2009 Disaster Management Workshop

(Mumbai)

Dec 2009 AIDS awareness Rally (Raipur)

Dec 2009 Comprehensive Preventive Eye Care

for the Employees (Coimbatore)

Dec 2009 Awareness Session on Cardiac (Indore)

Dec 2009 Interactive session with Dr Anil Lamba

(Pune)


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sens

itisingearly

Yiengages students across the length

and breadth of the country through

Yi Nets a platform for dissemination

of knowledge and nation building activities by

connecting them to the society at large. They

are involved in contests and competitions,

trained in written and spoken English, learning

missions to corporates, campus cleaning

sessions, interactions with the elderly and so on.

Net Launches: 2009

Yi in the year 2009-2010 witnessed new net

launches at the following locations, taking

the total tally to 59 Nets across the country:

Ahmedabad (2), Bhubaneshwar (2), Chennai (1),

Chittoor (3), Delhi (3), Guwahati (2), Hyderabad

(2), Kochi (2), Thiruvananthapuram (1).

30 July 2009, Delhi

Yi Bowling Championship: Delhi Chapter

organised a Bowling Competition for the school

students of Delhi and NCR at BluO, Ambience

Mall, Gurgaon. More than 10 teams from leading

schools of Delhi and Gurgaon participated.

4 October 2009, Hyderabad

Flood Relief Campaign: Students of SSN

College, a student net of the Yi Hyderabad

Chapter came forward to support the ood

relief activity in Andhra Pradesh.

26-27 September 2009, Kochi

Yi conducted a simulation of the Indian

Parliament with participation open to

youngsters in the age group of 16 to 25.

After a rigorous selection process, 150

of the most talented applicants were

groomed to conduct the simulation,

which exposed them to the intricacies

of Parliamentary procedure, made

them passionate about governance, its

responsibilities and the effect it had on

the common man.


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enga

gement

YiFarmer Nets engage the agrarian

sector in rural India to enable young

and evolving agriculturists to bridge

the information gap using knowledge as a

catalyst to enhance their livelihood thereby

aiding in building a stronger nation.

20 November 2009, Chittoor

Launch of the Second National Farmer Net

Dr Rahul Mirchandani, National Chairman, Yi &Executive Director Aries Agro Ltd launched the

Farmer Net logo which was followed by signing

of an MoU between Dr Rahul Mirchandani and

Mr Jagan Mohan, General Manager, Galla

Foods. With the launch of this second Farmer

Net at Galla Foods, 589 farmers have become

part of the Yi Farmers Net, taking the total

membership to 8500 farmers nationally.

6 October 2009, Guwahati

5th AGROMAX at Shilpgram

CIIs Young Indians organised the 5th AGROMAX

at Shilpgram, Panjabari. The seminar witnessed

around 350 young farmers, government ofcials,

industry leaders and expert scientists from West

Bengal and the seven North Eastern states.

Dr Rahul Mirchandani, National Chairman

Young Indians & Executive Director of Aries

Agro Limited, addressed the issues related to

the need of good agricultural practices.

November 29-30 2009, HaryanaAgriconclave & Agromax

Yi in partnership with CII & the Government

of Haryana organised the 6th edition of the

Agromax Haryana 2009 at Charan Singh Haryana

Agricultural University, Hisar. The theme of the

Agriconclave & Agromax Haryana 2009 was,

Towards Building Good Agriculture Practices

and Latest Technology. The two day exposition

was inaugurated by the Honble Chief Minister

of Haryana, Shri. Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

Dr Rahul Mirchandani, National Chairman, Young Indians &

Executive Director, Aries Agro Limited delivering the inaugural

address at the 5th edition of AGROMAX in Guwahati.

Dr. Rahul Mirchandani with Honble Chief Minister of Haryana

Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda at the Agro Max, Haryana

Yi Aries Agro Farmers Networkorganised 3 kinds

of activities every month in each state where

the network operates. These were

Suryodaya: A unique Farmers Colloquium

for sharing knowledge on best practices

and crop management practices. 11

programmes were organised every month

from July to December in the 10 states of the

Networks operation impacting 3455 farmers

Uni Connect: A structured lab-to-land

programme that connects university faculty,

researchers and students with young farmers.

66 sessions were held impacting 3600 farmers

BAL Krishak Sambodhan A series of

Guest lectures at rural schools conducted

by agribusiness professionals to expose

students to knowledge of next practices

which will equip future farmers with

comprehensive, current information on

latest agri input practices. Over 4000

students were impacted.

Yi Galla Foods Farmer Network organised

a four-day training session for its farmers on

December 7-11, 2009 at Galla Foods, Chitoor.

The training covered Good Harvesting, Matured

stage identication to reduce the ripening loss,

transportation, Integrated Pest management

and Integrated Nutrient management. Galla

Foods also conducted a farmer Health Camp in

the plant on 27 December, where they released

the pesticide, fungicide, nutrient, disease

management Track sheet and a literature book

on how to manage mango gardens.

5 October 2009, Guwahati

10 Innovative Farming Practices Contest

The farming Next practices contest was announced

at Agromax, Guwahati. The contest aims to

identify 10 innovative farming practices across

10 different crops and reward these farming Next

practices. As a follow-up, a year-long campaign

to evangelize the branded farming techniques

will be conducted where selected farmers will be

invited to speak at appropriate forums.


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Monthwise activity breakup (Total 612)

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Number of activities - Chapterwise (Total 412)


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Yi member engagement (Total 3,441)

Number of people impacted (Total 6,04,643)

Number of activities (Total 486)


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The Young IndiansThiruvananthapuram

Chapter was launched on 7 April by

Lt Gen S K Pillai, PVSM (Retd). The

Chapter that has 18 members was launched

with the presence of Mr Mahesh Sriram, Chair

- Chapters & Membership Growth for Yi and

Mr P Ganesh, Vice Chairman, CII Kerala State

Council. Mr Vijay Kumar, Chief Operating

Ofcer, InApp Information Technologies and

Mr Alex C Augustine, Managing Director,

Teknokraaft Info Systems Pvt Ltd are Chapter

Chair and Chapter Co-chair respectively

of the Thiruvananthapuram City Chapter.

Thiruvananthapuram Chapter is the 16th city

Chapter of Yi.

The Yi Guwahati Chapter was launched on 8

June at the Vivekananda Kendra, Uzanbazar,

Guwahati. The 17th Yi Chapter was launched

by Prof Gautam Barua, Director of the Indian

Institute of Technology, Guwahati. On 12

September, Yi launched the 19th Chapter at

Erode. The Chief Guest on the occasion was

Dr B K Krishnaraj Vanavarayar, Chairman,

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Coimbatore Kendra.

On 23 September, Yi launched the 20th

Yi Chapter at Vishakapatnam and on 1

October Yi launched is 21st Chapter at Goa.

57 registered members registered for the 21st

Chapter launch in Goa on 1 October, 2009.

Shri Brijmohan Agarwal, Honble Minister

for Tourism & Culture, Government of

Chattisgarh launched Yis 22nd Chapter on

10 October, 2009 at Raipur.

New chapters at Baroda and Madurai were

launched on 30th January & 1st February

respectively.

forgin

gahead

From the top

Yi Thiruvananthapuram Chapter launch1.

Dr Rahul Mirchandani, Chairman Yi National, addressing members at the launch of the Yi Guwahati Chapter.2.

Yi Goa Chapter launch3.

Mr. Prateek Pandey, Head CII Chattisgarh; Mr. Shaurya Veer Himatsingka, Yi Chapter Chair, Kolkata; Mr. Rajesh Gowardhan,4.

Managing Director, Chattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation; Mr. P Ramesh Kumar, Secretary Industry,

Government of Chattisgarh; Shri Brijmohan Agarwal, Minister of Tourism & Culture, Government of Chattisgarh; Mr. Narayan

Agarwal, Vice Chairman CII at the launch of the Yi Raipur Chapter


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governing councilmembers 2009-10

Name Yi Designation Designation Company City

Rahul Mirchandani Yi National Chairman Executive Director Aries Agro Ltd Mumbai

Bhairavi Jani Yi National Vice Chairman Executive Director SCA Group of Companies Mumbai

PLATFORMS

Student Nets

Mala Patodia Chair - Student Nets Export Executive GTN Enterprises Kochi

Ayush Jain Co-Chair - Student Nets Director Indicana Art n Mart PvtLtd.

Indore

Abiram Bhajoria Co-Chair - Student Nets Vice President (Sourcing) CGS Apparels Pvt Ltd Delhi

Deepak Subramaniam Co-Chair - Student Nets Vice President-Marketing Multivista Global Ltd c

Farmer Nets

Rahul Mirchandani Chair - Farmer Nets Executive Director Aries Agro Ltd Mumbai

ct S Co-Chair - Farmer Nets Manager - MarketingServices Aries Agro Ltd Mumbai

Next Practices

Sumeet Anand Chair - Next Practices Director Taabir L ifestyleAccessories pvt ltd

Delhi

Rahul Patwardhan Co-Chair - Next Practices Vice Chairman & MD IndiaCo.com Pvt Ltd Pune

INITIATIVES

Employability

Bala Subramaniam Chair - Employability Vice President, CSR Fullerton India Credit Co.Ltd.

Mumbai

Gayithri Punjabi Co-Chair - Employability Director KG Developers &Promoters

c

Nihar Shah Co-Chair - Employability Partner Silver Bright Pune

Environment

Deepa Sathiaram Chair - Environment Partner En3 Consulting c

Madan Jerome Co-Chair - Environment Designer Anydesigns Kochi

Governance & Value Based Leadership

Meher Pudumjee Chair - Governance &Value-Based Leadership

Chairperson Thermax Ltd Pune

Healthcare

Sudha Iyer Chair - Healthcare Chairperson & ManagingDirector

Srijana Group Hyderabad

Shikha Sharma Co-Chair - Healthcare Managing Director Nutri-Health SystemsPrivate Ltd.

Delhi

Arts, Culture & Sports

Aparna Reddy Chair - Arts, Culture & Sports Hyderabad

Education

Srikantan Suryanarayan Chair - Education Managing Director Tradelinks Ventures Pvt Ltd Kochi

Aditya Balasundaram Co-Chair - Education Executive Director CPC (P) Limited Coimbatore

Alok Sanghi Co-Chair - Education Director Sanghi Industries Ltd Ahmedabad

MEMBERSHIP

Membership Engagement

Bhairavi Jani Chair - MembershipEngagement

Executive Director SCA Group of Companies Mumbai

Umang Patodia Co-Chair - MembershipEngagement

Managing Director Patspin India Ltd Kochi

Sandeep Maini Co-Chair - MembershipEngagement

Managing Director Maini Materials MovementPvt Ltd

Bangalore


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Membership Processes

Anuj Kothari Chair - MembershipProcesses

Director K N C Intrade Pvt Ltd. Indore

Naveen Munjal Co-Chair - MembershipProcesses

Chief Executive Hero Exports Delhi

Communication

Shankar Vanavarayar Chair - Communication Chief Executive Sri Sakthi Textiles Ltd CoimbatoreRajeev Kamineni Co-Chair - Communication Director Oxford Boom Store &

Cha BarCoimbatore

Learning

Kumara Guru Chair - Learning Associate Director -Deans Ofce

Indian School of Business Hyderabad

Kumaar Bagrodia Co-Chair - Learning ceO Leap Vault Mumbai

Anupama Arya Co-Chair - Learning Director Mobera Systems Chandigarh

Rohit Rajendran Co-Chair - Learning Executive Director Premier Spg & Wvg MillsPvt Ltd

Coimbatore

MEMBERSHIP GROWTH

Chapters & Membership Growth

Mahesh Sriram Chair - Chapters &Membership Growth Executive Director Bharat Travel ServiceP Ltd c

Paul Jacob Co-Chair - Chapters &Membership Growth

Director Modarchs ConsultantsChennai (P) Ltd

c

Corporate Chapter

Gayathri Sriram Chair - Corporate Chapter Managing Director UCAL Auto Private Ltd c

Charulatha Bansal Co-Chair - CorporateChapter

Managing Partner Buzzaar Mumbai

Yi online

Nikhil Nath Chair - Yi Online Chief Executive Knowcross SolutionsPrivate Limited

Delhi

Anurag Mundra Co-Chair - Yi Online Director M & B Switchgears Pvt Ltd Indore

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

Women Engagement

Monica Trivedi Chair - Women Engagement Freelance Journalist Pune

Mahua Moitra Co-Chair - WomenEngagement

Member Indian National Congress Kolkata

Yi Alumni

Kartik Sriram Chair - Yi Alumni President & CEO Rapsri EngineeringIndustries Ltd.

Bangalore

Overseas Indians

Mahesh Sriram Chair - Overseas Indians Executive Director Bharat Travel Service P Ltd.c

Yi 100

Rajan Navani Chair - Yi 100 Managing Director Jetline Group ofCompanies

Pune

Arjun Wallia Co-Chair - Yi 100 Managing Director Walsons Services Pvt Ltd. Delhi

Rahul Chawla Co-Chair - Yi 100 CEO & Founder Signet Corp Delhi

ORGANISATION

Partnerships & International Relations

Narayan Sethuramon Past National Chairman& Chair - Partnerships &International Relations

Managing Director W S Industries (India) Ltd c

Finance

Raghu Kailas Chair - Finance Managing Director Ucal Exports Private Ltd c

Ram Sukumar Co-Chair - Finance Director Indium Software (India) Ltdc

Branding Strategy

Jay Galla Imm Past National Chairman

& Chair - Branding

Managing Director Amara Raja Batteries Ltd. Hyderabad


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Organisational Governance

Rajan Navani Chair OrganisationalGovernance

Managing Director Jetline Group ofCompanies

Pune

Intergration with CII

Rahul Mirchandani Chair - Intergration with CII Executive Director Aries Agro Ltd Mumbai

Planning & Policy

Yi Core Group

EVENTS

Rahul Chawla Chair - Event CEO & Founder Signet Corp Delhi

Vishnu Raju Co Chair - Event Managing Director Exciga Corp Hyderabad

Rajeev Nair Co Chair - Event Managing Director Stallions System & SolutionP Ltd

Kochi

SPECIAL INVITEES

Rajeev Karwal Invitee Founder Milagrow Business &Knowledge Solutions

Delhi

Pratima Kirloskar Invitee President The IndusEntrepreneurs(KBL)

Pune

Huzaifa Khorakiwala Invitee Executive Director Wockhardt Ltd Mumbai

PAST NATIONAL CHAIRS

G V Sanjay Reddy Yi Past National Chairman Vice Chairman GVK Industries Ltd Hyderabad

Narayan Sethuramon Yi Past National Chairman Managing Director W S Industries (India) Ltd c

Rajan Navani Yi Past National Chairman Managing Director Jetline Group ofCompanies

Pune

Jayadev Galla Imm Past National Chairman Managing Director Amara Raja Batteries Ltd. Hyderabad

Chapter CHAIRS/CO CHAIRS

Ahmedabad

Jay Ruparel Chair - Yi Ahmedabad ED & COO Azure Knowledge Center Ahmedabad

Madhur Todi Co-Chair - Yi Ahmedabad Managing Director DhanVyavastha Ahmedabad

Bangalore

Amitha Singh Chair - Yi Bangalore Director 3HEAD Design BangaloreBhubaneshwar

Aditya Dash Chair - Yi Bhubaneshwar Director Suryo Papers Pvt. Ltd. Bhubaneshwar

Sanjoy Panda Co-Chair - Yi Bhubaneshwar Doctor Panda Medical Centre Bhubaneshwar

Chandigarh

Mohit Chitkara Chair - Yi Chandigarh Vice President Chitkara Educational Trust Chandigarh

Navita Mahajan Co-Chair - Yi Chandigarh Education Consultant Chandigarh

Chennai

Anand Pakkurti Chennai Chapter Chair Director Enpro Hitech DistributorsPrivate Limited

c

Deepa Sathiaram Co-Chair - Chennai Partner En3 Consulting c

M Sivaramakrishnan Co-Chair - Chennai Managing Director Ucal Machine Tools Ltd c

Chittoor

N Praveen Chair - Chittoor Chairman & CEO TeleDNA Chittoor

Coimbatore

Arjun Prakash Chair Coimbatore President Efca Automation Coimbatore

Jayanthra Jayachandran Co-Chair Coimbatore CEO & Director Angler Technologies IndiaP Ltd

Coimbatore

Delhi

Rahul Chawla Chair - Yi Delhi CEO & Founder Signet Corp Delhi

Akshay Bhalla Co-Chair - Yi Delhi Partner J C Bhalla & Company Delhi

Erode

Senthil Kumar Duraisamy Chair, Erode Chapter Director Sakthi Masala Pvt Ltd Erode


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V P S Radhakrishnan Co-Chair Erode Chapter Properitor Mangalmoorthy StarchIndustries

Erode

Goa

Tejendra (Nikhil) Lawande Chair, Goa Proprietor & ManagingPartner

Mountain Builders M/s. R SLawande

Goa

Jennifer Lewis e Kamat Co-Chair Goa Structural & Repair Consultant

BDK Consultants Goa

Guwahati

Ajay Agarwal Chair - Guwahati Partner Singhi & Co Guwahati

Atreyee B Thekedath Co-Chair - Guwahati Webcom India Guwahati

Hyderabad

Nirav Modi Chair - Yi Hyderabad Director E Logic Solutions India PvtLtd

Hyderabad

Rishabh Agarwal Co-Chair - Yi Hyderabad Director Karen Woo-Sin Ltd. Hyderabad

Indore

Shashank Agarwal Chair - Yi Indore Chartered Accountant Worth Corporate SolutionsPvt. Ltd.

Indore

Amit Bidasaria Co-Chair - Yi Indore Director V S N International Indore

KochiJacob Joy Chair - Yi Kochi Director (Operations) J J Confectionery(P) Ltd. Kochi

Naveen Philip Co-Chair - Yi Kochi Managing Director Popular Mega Motors (I)Ltd.

Kochi

Kohima

Hekani Jhakalu Chair - Yi Kohima Director YouthNet Kohima

Zaren Oduyo Co-Chair - Yi Kohima Entrepreneur Kohima

Kolkata

Shaurya Veer Himatsingka Chair - Yi Kolkata Executive Director India Carbon Ltd Kolkata

Mumbai

Kamaljit Rastogi Chair - Yi Mumbai Head - Products ,VicePresident,

Financial InformationNetwork &Operations Pvt. Ltd. (FINO)

Mumbai

Sweta Mangal Co-Chair - Yi Mumbai Co-Founder 1298 Ambulance Mumbai

Puducherry

Mr K Amarnath Chair - Yi Puducherry Vice President Hotel Surguru Puducherry

Srikanth Sivaraman Co-Chair - Yi Puducherry General Manager SNAM Alloys Pvt Ltd Puducherry

Pune

Monica Trivedi Chair - Pune Freelance Journalist Pune

Sunaina Gera Co-Chair - Pune Product Developer Gera Developments PvtLtd

Pune

Raipur

Dinesh Agrawal Chair - Raipur Managing Director RR Ispat Limited Raipur

Srinagar

Aqil Nedou Chair - Srinagar Director Nedous Hotels Srinagar

Waseem Trumboo Co-Chair - Srinagar Director Trumboo Industries Pvt Ltd Srinagar

Thiruvananthapuram

Vijay Kumar Chair - Thiruvananthapuram Chief Operating Ofcer InApp InformationTechnologies

Thiruvananthapuram

Alex C Augustine Co-Chair -Thiruvananthapuram

Managing Director Teknokraaft Info SystemsPvt Ltd

Thiruvananthapuram

Vishakapatnam

Srinivas Mahesh Chair - Vishakapatnam ceO Weblogix Vishakapatnam

Shyam Kumar Kolluru Co-Chair - Vishakapatnam VP- Business Development Symbiosys Technologies Vishakapatnam


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executive andmanaging members

National/Chapters Name Designation

National Shefali Chaturvedi Head Young Indians

National Mercy Solomon Managing Member

National Nagalakshmi Yeshwanth Executive Member

National Theja P Executive Member

National Gaurav Kashyap Executive Member

Ahmedabad Sudhakaran Nair Executive Member

Bangalore Rita John Executive Member

Bhubaneshwar Deepak Kumar Singh Executive Member

Chandigarh Rajneet Ghumman Executive Member

c Vidya Lakshmi Executive Member

Coimbatore

D Thulasiraj / Executive Member

Executive MemberPavithra R

Delhi Shipra Saxena Executive Member

Erode M Subramanian /S M Manoharan Executive Member

Guwahati Pryankarjit Baruah Executive Member

Hyderabad Tapati D Executive Member

Indore Tushar Mishra Executive Member

Kochi Linoy Thenayan Executive Member

Kolkata Suparna Chakraborty Executive Member

Mumbai Alisha Ojha Executive Member

Nagaland Chuba Ozukum Executive Member

Pune Mansi Kapoor Executive Member

Raipur Sahil Batra Executive Member

Thiruvananthapuram Linoy Thenayan Executive Member

Vishakapatnam Vinay Iyer Executive Member


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Young Indians

c/o Confederation of Indian Industry

A B O U T C I I

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works to create and

sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industry

in India, partnering industry and government alike through

advisory and consultative processes.

CII is a non-government, not-for-prot, industry-led and industry-

managed organisation, playing a proactive role in Indias

development process. Founded over 114 years ago, it is Indias

premier business association, with a direct membership of over

8500+ organisations from the private as well as public sectors,

including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of

over 90,000 companies from around 396 national and regional

sectoral associations.

CII catalyses change by working closely with government

on policy issues, enhancing efciency, competitiveness and

expanding business opportunities for industry through a range

of specialised services and global linkages. It also provides a

platform for sectoral consensus building and networking. Majoremphasis is laid on projecting a positive image of business,

assisting industry to identify and execute corporate citizenship

programmes. Partnerships with over 120 NGOs across the

country facilitate initiatives in integrated and inclusive

development, including health, education, livelihood, diversity

management, skill development and water, to name a few.

Complementing this vision, CIIs theme for 2009-10 is India@75:

Economy, Infrastructure and Governance. Within the agenda

to facilitate Indias transformation into an economically vital,

technologically innovative, socially and ethically vibrant global

leader by year 2022, CIIs focus this year is on revival of the

Economy, fast tracking Infrastructure and improved Governance

With 64 ofces in India, 9 overseas in Australia, Austria, China,

France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, UK, and USA, and

institutional partnerships with 213 counterpart organisations in

88 countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry

and the international business community.

A B O U T Y O U N G I N D I A N S

Young Indians (Yi) is an integral part of the Confederation of

Indian Industry (CII), Indias premier business association. The

agenda was to create a platform for young Indians to realise the

dream of a developed nation. Yi has over 1200 direct members

in 24 city Chapters and 1 district Chapter. Its 160 members in

3 corporate Chapters and 12,000 members in district Chapter,2 Farmer Nets and 59 Student Nets include young progressive

Indians between the age group of 25 - 40 years. Its vision: To

become the voice of young Indians globally.

Yi works effectively for promoting leadership skills for the

development of its members through learning programmes;

development and engagement of students in schools and

colleges through Student Nets and Farmer Nets with 8389

young and progressive farmers.

Yi has focused in areas of primary education, environment,

primary healthcare and employability, contributing positively

to its surrounding eco system and the nation..

Yi partners with organisations including the Government,

Companies, Civil society organisations. On the international

arena, Yi engages with the BMW Foundation to promote the

Indo German Young Leaders Forum for young leaders from

Germany and India to come on a common platform. Young

Indians have partnered with CII on the Mission on India@75:

The Emerging Agenda, which reects its aspirational role to

facilitate the acceleration in Indias transformation into an

economically vital, technologically innovative, socially and

ethically vibrant global leader by year 2022. With six years of

glorious past and decades ahead that promise nothing short,

Yi intends to become a larger movement and promote the

positive attitude of We Can, We Will.

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f i r e f l i e s f o r c h a n g e

Fireies are spectacular. They are the only living beings that have the ability to glow and spread light in the dark. They always live

in large groups and when they unite, their collective energy creates a natural spectacle and has the power to illuminate even the

deepest, darkest abyss. With their inborn abilities and unity, reies have the skill to lead by showing the way. And while doing so

they dazzle excite and inspire Young Indians are very similar In our quest for being change agents who work collectively to shape

Documents

CII-Young Indians Annual Report 2009-2010