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Nurturingthe Positive

Powers of India

CII-India@75-Yi Conclave

01 February 2013

Pune

Young Indians in association with India@75 and CII organized a Conclave on “Nurturing the Positive Powers of

India” on 01 February 2013 at Hotel Le Meridien, Pune.

Opening the proceedings for the day, Ms Ritu Nathani, Chair, Yi (Pune Chapter) welcomed the delegates to the

conclave and invited the dignitaries on the dais to light the lamp to mark the start.

Nurturingthe Positive

Powers of India

Ms Anupama Arya, National Chairperson, Young

Indians & Managing Director, Hatch Center welcomed

the delegates and began by mentioning how nice it

was to be back in Pune, the city of dynamism and

entrepreneurship. She mentioned that it was the need

to develop ideas and thoughts that will facilitate

transforming India to actively shaping the world order

through economic strength, technology vitality band

moral strength by the year 2022, when India will be

celebrating its 75th year of independence and took

reference to the previous regional summits that were

organized by Young Indians in the past months,

including the one in the Southern Region at Chennai

and the one in the Eastern Region at Kolkata. “While

the previous summits have focused on bringing

together the youth as one generation on common

values, this conclave actually brings out those values

in detail” she said and concluded by thanking Mr Rajan

Navani, Chairman, CII-India@75-Yi Conclave and

Chairman, CII National Committee on India@75 and

Ms Ritu Nathani for their leadership in making this an

event that Yi was certainly proud to have worked for.

Inaugural session on “Nurturing the Positive Powers of India”

Mr Rajan R Navani, addressed the gathering and

welcomed the guests on the dais. He also welcomed

Members of Young Indian from across the country,

Media, students from the net institutions that YI

worked with. He began on a positive note and

addressed the audience with 3 key words “positive,

power and nurture”. “India needs to accelerate the

pace of positive thinking” said Mr Navani. He added

that India need to evolve 500 million workforce with

skilled people and better livelihood. He said that

unlike China, India had a strong society and weak

states and that we will have to work collectively to

develop effective governance and explore power of

technology & finance which led to greater

transparency & increase the pace of recruitment.

He said that philanthropy was imbibed in Indian

culture, and with a support of democratic power and

by nurturing the youth, “we can make a large change”.

Mr Rajan also spoke at length on the need for the

youth of India to engage with thought leaders like the

ones that had accepted to speak at the conclave in the

sessions that followed and take their guidance as

India gets into last 9 years of its journey to celebrate

the 75 year of independence.

Mr S Gopalakrishan, President (Designate), CII addressed the members next and started by informing the

members that he was at the World Economic Forum in Davos recently and that there were high expectations from

India at such global forums. “India should be a strong positive force on the world stage and to be so, we should have

courage and confidence” he said and also believed that India reflected all the complexities of the world, and could

be the role model on how development could occur. He further added that models and institutions that prevailed in

the 20th century were not relevant in the 21st century and that our institutions were inadequate to handle the effect

of climatic changes, floods, cyber security, and global crisis (financial crisis of Greek impacted us) and needed to

be strengthened and we need to look at new forms of governance.

“Wealth creation has increased disparity and

unemployment. The model used to create wealth may

not be the model going forward,” he said, adding that the

demographics of our nation was designed with the young

and that we needed to work upon how to leverage the

youth for the change needed.

“India lacks social equity and there is a strong need to

create synergy & accountability at the grass roots; make

people to perform better by changing the models. A lot of

people have unprecedented power in their hands, and

this power needs to be leveraged in a positive way.

Entrepreneurship is important in order to convert the

youth from job seeker to job creator and renew the

culture of philanthropy, thus contributing to the nation &

connecting the urban to rural and playing the role of

facilitator & aggregator” he said and requested all the

members present to join the “Count me in” campaign

started by CII for an opportunity to plug in and contribute.

While giving the keynote address on 'Nurturing the power

of Governance', Mr Prakash Jawadekar, Member of

Parliament said that having maximum number of young

people in India would be an advantage only if the youth

were positively nurtured. “The employability of youth

needs to be increased and nourished, and that is why

India@ 75, requires good governance” he said and added

that good governance must always be corruption free and

empower people to work for the progress of the nation. He

figured out that illiterate intelligence in India has many

times more impact than of literate intelligence, but also

chalked out the need of good governance for developing

today's youth and increasing literate intelligence.

Mr Jawadekar further explained the term good

governance by pointing out some examples such as

significant grain storage in Madhya Pradesh, the

renovation of a park in a garbage dump yard in

Coimbatore, E-Governance initiatives in Karnataka that

have benefited the common man at all levels, the

development of infrastructure at a fast pace in

Vishakhapatnam, free and accountable bureaucracy in Gujarat etc and said that one could change the system by

being part of it. He said that he was fascinated to be in the conclave precisely because it was focused on the future

and getting results for the country's growth and in the process also find solutions to the problems at hand. He said

that his party will always work for the engagement of youth and take them into confidence for important

discussions.

Ms Supriya Sule, Member of Parliament (Baramati

Lok Sabha Constituency) while addressing on

governance, said that good governance was not

about politics and government running the country,

but it is about services and facilities offered by

government for common people. She further

complemented the 'Zero Garbage Katraj' project by

Mr Pradeep Bhargava, Chairman, CII Western region

and 'Pune Bus Day' project by Sakal Group for their

successful governance. On the international level, Ms

Sule, mentioned 'FDI' and '123 Nuclear Agreement' as

good examples of governance. She carried on to

mention that the youngestes today did not want

anything free, but they demanded that everything

must be done in the rightful with good governance that

completes the value chain. “The job of the

Governments is to provide the youth with such an

environment so that they can flourish and contribute to

their business, professions and thereby the country in

the best way possible” she said and acknowledged CII

and Yi for choosing a theme that was very youth

oriented and for engaging with them through this

event. She was positive on the future of India with

seeing the contribution of the youth in the past decade

and was hopeful that the best of India was yet to come.

She said that as a people representative in the

parliament, she was committed to making

contributions in all means possible for the youth to

prosper.

Mr Pradeep Bhargava, Chairman,

CII Western Region gave the

closing remarks of this conclave for

the inaugural session and

requested the young people to

make maximum use of listening

and interacting with the speakers of

the conclave. He also thanked all

thye sponsors for their support to

this conclave and mentioned that

CII and Yi will always be keen to

engage with people to realize the

vision of India@75 and make it

happen.

Plenary II: Nurturing the Power of Finance & Technology

The session after the first break was one of the most anticipated ones on ““Nurturing the power of Finance&

Technology” with Mr K V Kamath, Past President, Confederation of Indian Industry & Chairman, ICICI Bank Ltd &

Infosys Ltd and was moderated by Mr Rajan R Navani. Mr Kamath initiated his talk though an impromptu

interaction with Mr Rajan and answered his questions. He mentioned that there was a need to change the mindset

of people and to “re-think the future” mentioning that with an example of the expectation from the parents on their

children to take up a white collar job.

“In most cases, parents discourage children from taking courses in fashion design, acting etc and direct them to do

what they want or what is respected in the society” he said that called correction in this regard. He emphasized on

the advent &access to technology from the mid- 1990s and the achievements in the banking sector, through the

ICICI Bank. He also focused on the challenge to overcome ignorance, and need to “wire oneself”. Earlier, during

the interaction with Mr Rajan, he recalled the formation of “Young Indians” in his boardroom and how happy he was

to see the organization grow in the past 10 years.

Later, he made a presentation on technology and finance and the various steps taken by him and his bank in

bringing in together to benefit large sections of the people. He specified the Technology adoption in banking,

disruptive power of technology, rapid urbanization, resurgent rural India, impact of banking and technology for

masses as the main elements in the transition stage of India. He also spoke about the innovation and emerging

technology in banks like smart Cards, POS machines, Mobile phones low cost branch and low cost ATM's.

“The challenge is in banking 700 million people in 600,000 villages in close to 600 districts” he said. He also spoke

about “Financial Service For all” in terms of Subsidy transfer, payment ecosystem and Credit. Lastly he stated

“Technology adoption by Indian consumers is proceeding at dramatic pace and connectivity will have a significant

impact on increasing access to Markets, information and knowledge. He concluded his address by mentioning

“India itself has transformed and will transformed even more in the years ahead”. Mr Raja Kochar, Chairman, CII

Pune Zonal Council also interacted and shared his thoughts.

Plenary III: Nurturing the power of Participation Action

The plenary on “Nurturing the power of Participation

Action” was handled by Mr Arun Maira, Member of

the Planning Commission, Government of India &

Member Trustee, India@ 75 Foundation and

Member, Apex Council on India @ 75. “The children of

the world should have equal chance to prove

themselves” said Mr Arun Maira and continued by

explaining the four chapters. First chapter was

depicted as “Buffalo wallowing and children waiting”

which clearly states that by putting together leaders &

experts together and expect results out of them,

whereas what really happens is one person pulling

down the other. This chapter was called as

Positioning. The second chapter was depicted as

“Peacocks strutting and birds scrambling” which

signified the class of population owning a huge

amount of wealth who grabbed all the available

opportunities and the birds depicting the class of poor

population who are deprived of education & wealth.

This chapter was called leaders by power & wealth.

The third chapter was “Tigers Growling and wolves

frowning” which represented the power of the gun,

power through muscle and mind (nasalizes) and the

fourth chapter was “fireflies arising” which

represented all those people who were not wealthy or

powerful but they brought about a change in the

society by compassion and passion. He further said

that 20% of the population believed that businesses

actually cared about the society and that there was an

urgent need to change the business and the

governance models, because the common people did

not trust and in order to bring in reforms, he mentioned

that we needed to gain the trust of people. He

emphasized on the need of reforms to improve

performance & implementations, this can be obtained

by collaboration among stakeholders and the root

cause for failure is contention, confusion & intention,

where contention needs to be converted into

collaboration, confusion into coordination and

intentions into implementations. He concluded by

stating his vision for India to be 'Inclusive, Democratic

and Capitalist'. In his ministerial level position, he is

responsible for facilitating the shaping of policies and

programs related to industrialisation and urbanisation

in the country and tourism. He has a combination of

hands-on leadership experience, consulting

experience to leadership teams internationally and

thought-leadership as an author and speaker on the

subjects o f leadersh ip and organisat ion

trasnformation.

Plenary IV:Nurturing the Power of Impactful Philanthropy

The plenary 5 of the conclave had Ms Neera Nundy,

Partner & Co- founder, Dasra moderate the session

with three powerful young people who discussed on

“Nurturing the Power of Impactful Philanthropy”.

Ms Meher Pudumjee, Chairperson, Thermax Ltd

and one of the panelists for the discussion on

impactful philanthropy. She mentioned on how

Themax invested 3% of profit for the upliftment of the

society and in CSR activities and how they started

collecting money form their employees every month.

This process, she said was very helpful that more

than 1000 of her staff were actively volunteering

themselves and that those who volunteer gets a

quarterly report on the investment of their money. She

said that there were lots of models to add value to the

society like the public private partnership adopted

with Pune Municipal Corporation.

She explained how Thermax ran the school for

municipal corporation by giving training to the

teachers to provide impactful knowledge to the

children and that they concentrate on English, mats,

and science which is the most important subject. Her

interest towards society was applauded by the

audience when she said that, she used to take

classes for the little children. Her idea of “AKANSHA”

was being appreciated by society. She gave an

overview idea how the process of creating a educated

society will bring change in the world and showed

some video related to the topic.

Mr Abhijit Pawar, Managing Director of Sakal Media

Group, Printer & Publisher of Sakal Newspaper, and

also Printer & Publisher of English daily from House of

Sakal, Sakal Times was the next panelist in the

discussion and started his speech by sharing the

pathetic condition faced by the people during floods,

draught etc, which was affecting the society and the

nation. He said that the concept of CSR is not 'giving';

it was to bring change in human minds. He spoke

about the plight of people in Pune struggling in traffic

and number of accident used to happen and shared

how he executed a model by meeting with all

politicians, bureaucrats, police and the common man

on the street. This model, he said reduced the traffic

from 30 lakhs to 8 lakhs and zero accident occurred

on that day. He tied up with Rotary clubs and NGO's to

carry out model for upcoming days, and this idea was

supported by TATA Motors and Ashok Leyland. He

concluded by showing some slides and how the

organization gave scholarships to 40000 students.

Ms Rati Forbes, Director, Forbes Marshall emphasized on the topic

“Nurturing the Power of Impactful Philanthropy” by mentioning how

her company supports over a 100 mini schools and its approach was

to partner with work organisations. She also added that it was

important that the community contributes and should focus on 3 to 5

years' timeline. She believed that the project undertaken must be

sustainable and should not need handholding and contribution

always. “Organizations & institutes must look for partners whose

values are similar to theirs n work together for volunteering and

helping the needy” she mentioned and that in the past 3 years, the 3

key issues that Forbes Marshall undertook were, education;

healthcare; this included mental healthcare as well as sanitation. Ms

Rati Forbes also mentioned about 'caring friends' where people from

the industry come together and donate or mentor the needy. She

also emphasized that imparting skills and knowledge in a consistent

way was crucial.

Plenary V: Nurturing the Power of Youth as Change Makers

The session on “Nurturing the Power of Youth as Change Makers” after a short break was moderated by Ms Ritu

Nathani.

Ms Revathi Roy, Head – Investor Relations, Brick Eagle shared some of her past stories which reflected a

struggled life. As someone who loved driving cars, she made it her business which she started with much difficulty.

She mentioned on how she took the risk of starting a taxi by advertising in a newspaper calling for women to

become part of a fleet service that will be exclusively run by them. She further went on say that she received a huge

response to the advertisement and how she had to become the driver herself since she could not get enough cars

to employ some of them. She mentioned that she started the service on 8th March, the Women's day with an

investment of around Rs 2000. At the end, she said that her dream was to give more women a better life.

Revathi Roy was invited by Hillary Clinton to participate in the summit conducted by her foundation last year.

Amongst the many awards that she has been given, the recent ones include Lions Gold Award for “Favorite

Women Social Entrepreneur” at a glittering ceremony and an episode of 30 minutes has been made on her by

Anurag Kashyap.

Mr Sarathbabu E, Chief Executive Officer of Food

King Catering Services Pvt. Ltd, Chennai who was

born in a slum in Chennai, then went on to study at

BITS Pilani and thereafter at the Indian Institute of

Management (Ahmedabad). Having won the CNN-

IBN Award and the RITZ Chennai Youth Icon

recognition in 2010 and many more awards, he stands

as a real icon for the success in the face of hardship

and great entrepreneur. He mentioned about the

difficulties that he used to face when he was a child

living in the slums and how he used to have a lamp

next to his book for light also mentioning that his

mother was his role model and it was due to her that

he wanted to get into food business and feed as many

people as he could; also mentioning an alarming

statistic that 30% of Indians go to bed with an empty

stomach.

He also spoke how, in his early stages of his

entrepreneurial career, he stared his business with Rs

2000 by supplying tea and coffee to the staff of an IT

company and he has been able to transform it into a

business that is worth Rs 8 crore today. He has also

been working on having the 10th day of October each

year as the “Hunger Free Day” and feeding the

disadvantaged people in our society.

Mr Krushnaa Patil is an Indian mountaineer and the

second youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest at an

age of 19. She is also the second woman from

Maharashtra to climb Everest. She explained to the

audience as to how her urge for climbing mountains

made her attend some professional courseon this

subject and how it converted into making her passion

an ambition in her life. "I was much more passionate

about dance than sports. But along came the

opportunity to be part of the pre-Everest expedition,

which she calls "the turning point" of her life.

Meanwhile, after trying unsuccessfully to get

sponsorship for their daughter, her parents took out a

loan form Saraswat Cooperative Bank to support her

climb to Mount Everest.

"When I was on the mountains, I was thinking whether

I summit or not, I just didn't have a way to pay back

such a big amount” she said and shared how the bank

fortunately waived the loan off after she climbed the

peak. "I think we give up very easily. But the point is

support will come. I made my own opportunity. The

government gave me a lot of money, but only after I

climbed Everest and had proven myself” she said.

Partners & Sponsors

The last session of the conclave was on “Nurturing the Power of Bollywood and Fashion”. Mr Manish Malhotra,

Costume Designer & Stylist, Manish Malhotra Design Studio was the guest speaker for this session which was

moderated by Ms Rasika Wakalkar, National Co Chair (Education), Young Indians. Ms Rasika has a discussion

with Mr Manish one-on-one various topics like his journey from a fascination towards Bollywood movies to painting

& sketching classes to his first Flimfare for Rangeela. When asked by Ms Rasika bout the publicity of the brand

'Manish Malhotra', he humbly replied that all the celebrities who wear his clothes are the best means of publicity for

his brand. The very successful designer who has designed clothes from Ms Urmila Matondkar to (Late) Mr Michael

Jackson loves embroidery work and is greatly inspired by it. When asked if there is scope for fashion schools in

India, he answered that it hugely depends on the individual. He considers his biggest failure as not obtaining proper

education & lacking the “business” skills. If not a fashion designer, he would be a film director added Mr Manish and

concluded by saying that our nation should not perceive philanthropy as charity but it should be about empowering

people.

Mr Rajan R Navani concluded the conclave by thanking all those who had supported and contributed in making the

conclave the way it turned out to be. The partners / sponsors for the conclave included The Hatch, Le Meridien

Pune, Eaton Group, CNBC TV18, Cybage, Jetline Group of Companies and Grover Vineyards.

Plenary VI: Nurturing the Power of Bollywood and Fashion