Mr Adi GodrejChairman,India@75 Foundation

Mr S. GopalakrishnanChairman, Apex CouncilIndia@75

Mr Rajan NavaniChairman,National CommitteeIndia@75

Glimpse of

India@75

Countries around the world have National Volunteering Programs & Weeks to support individuals as well as organizations of all sizes and mandates.

Volunteer Weeks in USA, England, Australia and Canada support all efforts to recognize and celebrate the great contributions of community

volunteers. Volunteering Days like the Sewa Day originating in UK (which takes up the concept of Sewa embedded in Indian traditions), and the

International Volunteering Day (5th December) offer an opportunity for volunteer organizations and individual volunteers to make visible their

contributions and co-opt others in their work.

India too needs her own National Volunteering Week – a week where millions of Indians can celebrate the virtue of selfless service and share their

common purpose to make India a developed, inclusive and progressive nation, that has much to offer to the world. National Volunteering Week,

India@75’s initiative, is a week where millions of Indians can celebrate the virtue of selfless service and share their common purpose to make India a

developed, inclusive and progressive nation that has much to offer to the world. This week will unite the nation in its spirits, its intentions and most

importantly in its commitment to engage Indians from all walks of life in celebrating, initiating and expanding the act of service for the common good.

For each day of the week, different themes have been assigned. List of themes is as below –

12th Jan D1

• Education and Skill Deployment

13th D2Jan

• Urbanization and Environmental Sustainability

14th Jan D3

• Business, Economy• Technology, Innovation

15th Jan D4

• Agriculture, Food Security, Health

16th Jan D5

• Model Leadership, Good Governance, Public Administration

17th Jan D6

• Arts, Literature and Sports

18th Jan D7

• National Volunteering Day

The following matrix gives an idea of how the National Volunteering Week is planned.

Watch out forNational Volunteering Week at India@75

India@75 FoundationConfederation of Indian Industry (CII)

249-F, Sector 18, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV, Gurgaon – 122 015, Haryana, India

Tel : +91 124 - 401 4060-67 (Board)

www.indiaat75.in

India@75 & Planning Commission

launched India Backbone

Implementation NetworkIn April this year, India@75 and Planning Commission jointly launched the India

Backbone Implementation Network (IBIN). The purpose of IBIN is to improve

implementation of policies, programs, and projects, which the 12th Five Year

Plan has located as the critical necessity for accelerating more inclusive and

faster growth. An analysis of projects and schemes has revealed that the major

causes of bottlenecks in implementation are contention amongst stakeholders,

and poor coordination amongst agencies. These bottlenecks are at many levels

in the system, at the center, in the states, and in districts and cities too. They

cannot be relieved top down by the Planning Commission. They require

collaborative action by stakeholders and agencies at multiple points.

Mr Ahulwalia said the Planning Commission has introduced several innovations

in the 12th Plan to improve planning, communication, and implementation.

These include the use of techniques of ‘scenario planning’ for the first time, use

of social media for communications with youth, and the concept of IBIN.

The IBIN movement will disseminate techniques and skills for collaboration,

coordination, and better planning through a network of agencies in the

country. The partners in the expanding network already included more than

two dozen institutions such as the Administrative Staff College of India, the

Indian School of Business, SEWA, WISCOMP, UNDP, GIZ, the World Bank,

FISME and other business associations. Since IBIN network will form around

“nodes”, India@75 was announced as the first node. The functions of a node

is to bring together providers of the skills and techniques and the agencies

that need them, and to continuously distil good practices and disseminate

them widely.

The launch session was also addressed by Mr S. Gopalakrishnan, President, CII

and Chairman Apex Council of India@75, Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Member

Trustee, India@75 Foundation and Mr Rajan Navani, Chairman, India@75

National Committee.

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Post this event, on 8th August 2013, in the presence of Mr Arun

Maira, Member, Planning Commission, India@75’s National

Committee members and the partners such as Tata Coffee,

World Bank, Sakal Media, GIZ, CUTS, KGVK, Yes Bank, PRS

Legislative and like wise, the IbIn website was launched. The

website clearly stated the purpose of IbIn movement and

showed the list of partners supporting it. The list of projects and

their progress can also be viewed at the website.

India@75 identifies

the Five Key Components of

Functional LiteracyThe first meeting with the different stakeholders such as GIZ,

TCS, Tata Power, Nandi, STIR, Bharti Foundation was organized

on 9th April 2013 in New Delhi. The meeting was chaired by Ms

Bhairavi Jani, Member, National Committee on India@75. The

meeting concluded into formation of 5 working groups and

working on different components of the functional literacy.

India@75 team created the templates for each of the group to

create the document. In July 2013, a document was created

which consolidated the work of all the working groups and five

key components of Functional Literacy emerged from it.

In November 2013, the document was presented to Mr Jagmohan Singh Raju, Joint Secretary and Director General, National Literacy

Mission Authority (NLMA) and in the first week of January (tentatively), a meeting is being scheduled for them to present the work that

has been undertaken by NLMA and indicate the areas of collaboration with the industry.

A Functionally Literate individual should have the knowledge of -

Reading, Writing,Comprehension

Mathematics and Computing

DigitalFunctionality

FinancialInvolvement and

Mobility

Health and NutritionReadiness

These five components in totality integrate the knowledge with

skills. On one hand there is reading, writing, comprehension,

mathematics and computing while on the other there are skills that

can be leveraged from the acquired knowledge. Along with these

skills and knowledge components, there are several life skills such

as Professional Presence, Commitment and Drive, Problem

Solving, Planning and Execution, Collaboration, Leadership,

Technology Savvy, Integrity & Values are also imbibed in the

definition of functional literacy.

Definition ofFunctionalLiteracy

MarketDevelopment

Rural Models

Urban Model

FunctionalLiteracyStakeholders

Top industrialists, actors, sporstmen and professionals took a

pledge under the banner of India @75. Mr Adi Godrej,

Chairman, India@75 on 14th November 2013 in Mumbai was

among the industrialists to take the pledge.

Along with him, Mr Cyrus Mistry, Mr S. Gopalakrishnan,

Mr Pradeep Bhargava, scientist R.A. Mashelkar, Ms Priya Dutt,

Mr Suresh Prabhu, Mr Viren Rasquinha, Mr Mahesh Jethmalani,

Mr Arun Maira, Mr Rahul Bajaj, Mr Adi Godrej, Mr Javed Akhtar,

Mrs Gayatri Prahalad, Mr Abhijeet Pawar, Mr Shanker

Annaswamy, and Ms Bhairavi Jani also took the pledge.

The pledge is to work toward empowering the people of India

through education, skilling, safety and better health facilities by

the year 2022.

Mr. Adi Godrej, Chairman, India@75 Foundation, set the

momentum as he shared the genesis of the movement, the

vision and the key pillars. Mr Rajan Navani, Chairman, National

Committee on India@75 said this is a mass movement and

would focus on skills and education, urbanization and

environmental sustainability, and philanthropy. India@75

mobile app was launched for the people to sign in and show

their support to the vision of the movement.

India@75: Call to Action

Action at India@75

Third Phase of Power To Empower Challenge LaunchedOn 16th September 2013, India@75 and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) jointly launched the 3rd edition of Power To Empower Challenge.

Aimed at identifying, selecting and rewarding the best for and non-profit solutions bridging the gap between the supply and demand of skilled labor in India,

Power To Empower 2013 invited individuals, groups as well as organizations to apply. The deadline for the submission of application was on 9th December 2013.

Applications for P2E 2013 will be accepted as part of two distinct categories – Idea and Operations. The Idea category will focus only on short ideas with a solution

concept which is only on paper whereas the Operations category will be open to those with an existing for or non-profit solution already in place addressing this issue.

One winner and three finalists will be rewarded in each category. Winners will receive cash reward of INR 3.5 lakh in the Operations category and INR 1.5 lakh in

the Idea Category by the Muthoot Pappachan Foundation, the CSR arm of the Muthoot Pappachan Group. In addition winners will receive access to the

EMPRETEC capacity building program of the IBF and UNCTAD. The winner and finalists will also receive the following:

1. Capacity building: Access to renowned experts, training course

2. Network opportunities: Introductions to investors, high-profile event passes

3. National visibility: Online promotion

The finale is scheduled on 18th March 2014 in New Delhi and Mr S. Ramadorai,

Chairman, NSDC will be present as one of the Jury members along with Mr Rajan

Navani, Chairman, National Committee on India@75 and Mr Pradeep Bhargava,

Member, National Committee on India@75.

Besides massive print and electronic media coverage the estimated out reach through social media was

• Live streaming watched by 5000 people

• Facebook page reach – 2,96,672 likes 21,431

• Estimated tweet reach – 3,387,538

Study on Private Sector Skilling InitiativesIt’s been 5 years since late Prof CK Prahalad gave the

vision for India@75 and one of the most prominent

finding of this agenda was the need to skill 500 million

people by 2022. This number has been accepted by

the Prime Minister and 17 ministries have been given

the task to achieve this number.

We are now 9 years away from the target of 500

million skilled work force. At this stage, it is imperative

to take stock of the efforts taken by different players.

India@75 alongwith National Skill Development

Corporation (NSDC) will initiate the process of

aggregation. The study will be initiated to map all the

skill development activities and training initiatives

being taken by various private players in the eco-

system.

Private sector initiatives will include NSDC partners,

non-NSDC private training partners and training by

corporates. The duration of the study will be from

January 2014 to March 2014 and is tentatively scheduled

to be launched at the Annual General Meeting of

Confederation of Indian Industry in April 2014.

Partnership with Government of

Uttar Pradesh to Organize Career

Guidance and Jobs FairAn important pillar of India@75’s work is skill building and skill

development. There is a large gap to match the skill sets available with the

opportunities for employment. With this in mind, India@75 and CII have

planned a Career Guidance and Job Fair for the students of Polytechnics

and Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs).

The primary purpose of the fair is to encourage interaction between the

industry and the students. Creating a platform and facilitating options for

employment will definitely motivate and instill a sense of confidence in the

students undertaking vocational skills training. Since the fair seek strong

government and industry support, it will enable these two key stakeholders

to connect and understand from the students their aspirations, identify

their skills and provide them the most suitable option. The fair will provide

not just jobs but also offer career guidance and assist the students in

creating a career tree so that they are aware of the various milestones that

can be achieved through vocational education and training.

The students from Noida, Bulandshahar, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Aligarh,

Mathura will be invited for this fair. The fair is planned in Partnership with

the Uttar Pradesh Skill Development Mission, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh

on 22nd and 23rd January 2014 at Gautam Buddha University in

Greater Noida.

Participation in UNDP's

International Volunteer DayOn 5th December, UN Volunteer and UNDP along with Ministry of

Youth Affairs and Sports celebrated International Volunteer Day (IVD).

Each year the day is celebrated to pay special tribute to the contribution

of youth volunteers in global peace and sustainable human

development. The day captures the values of volunteerism that are

relevant in strengthening the capacity to achieve secure livelihoods, to

enhance physical, economic, spiritual and social well-being.

At the event, one of the speakers, Mr Srikant Suryanarayan, Member,

National Committee on India@75 and CII National Chairman Young

Indians (YI) talked about Corporate Volunteerism and shared his point

of view on the importance of adding volunteerism in the National CSR

agenda.

Also present at the event were Ms Lise Grande, UN Resident

Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative, Ms Alexandra Soloviena,

Deputy Country Director, UNDP, Mr Rajeev Gupta, Secretary, Ministry

of Youth Affairs and Sports,

Capt Indraani Singh, CEO,

Literacy India. Each one of them

shared their understanding of

volunteerism and their

experience as a volunteer.

Panjim City Connect

LaunchedAfter successfully creating the City Connect Platforms at

Bangalore, Chennai, Trivandrum and Pune, India@75 under the

guidance of Mr V Ravichandran, Member, National Committee

on India@75 launched Panjim City Connect on 26th April 2013.

Mr Ravichandran is the vision ambassador on City Connect

Platforms and is a firm believer in integrated growth of a city.

The function was

attended by Mr

Atul Pai Kane,

Chairman CII Goa

Council & MD,

Power Engineering

India P Ltd., Mr

Dean Menezes,

Past Chairman CII

Goa Council & MD, CMM Logistics P. Ltd., Mr Vijay Hede, Past

Chairman CII Goa Council & Pyramid Finance Ltd, Mr Sanjit

Rodrigues, Commissioner, City Corporation of Panjim, Mr V.

Ravichandran, Evangelist – City Connect, and Mr Kirit

Maganlal, Vice-Chairman CII Goa Council & Director & Chief

Executive, Magson Networks Pvt Ltd.

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India@75 Signs MoU with IES-MCRCIndia@75 and Management College and Research Centre (MCRC) under the management of Indian Education Society (IES), Mumbai signed

a non financial MoU on 18 Apr 2013 at New Delhi. Signing of the MoU is an offshoot of the Alliance Agreement signed between India@75

and the Macquarie University of Sydney on 1 Nov 2012, wherein the University committed PhD scholarships worth 11 million AUD to 55

students over a period of four years under the Ektaal scheme named as “India@75 scholarship”. At present 3 students are doing their

internship with India@75.

IES – MCRC and India@75 will jointly identify and nominate high quality students for joint projects in areas of mutual strengths and

appropriate co-supervisors for the nominated students from universities and institutions working with India@75 across India.

Partnerships by India@75

Post “Call To Action” event on 14th November where numerous industrialists, sportsmen, politicians and bollywood stars pledged their support to India@75 Foundation, it was imperative to draw synergy among the various activities undertaken by the foundation. Probono and National Volunteering Week (NVW), are the two activities which cut through all the verticals of India@75.

Following the event, on 29th Nov, a workshop was organized at Mumbai which was chaired by Mr Rajan Navani, Chairman, National Committee on India@75. The agenda for the workshop was that the two tasksforce – Probono and NVW work in tandem on Communication & Technology. These two were identified as the common drivers for the two programs.

Ms Tanya Dubash, Member, National Committee on India@75 and chairing the Communication activities organized for India@75 shared with the members of the two taskforce her vision for communication and how technology can be leveraged for mass outreach. She has got on board Madison to assist India@75 with communication and Infosys is assisting with technology.

Mr Samson David, Senior Vice President & Global Head - Business Platforms, Infosys Limited, Ms Gouri Ravekar, Associate Vice President, NASSCOM Foundation, Ms Meera Harish, Vice President (Sales & Marketing), TATA Coffee Ltd, Mr George J Aikara, Assistant Executive Director, United Way of Mumbai, Mr Gaurav Chopra, Associate Vice President, Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and Shalabh Sahai, Co-founder & Director, iVolunteer (MITRA) were among the few who were part of the workshop. At the end of the workshop, the members came up with the milestones & set deliverables for the National Volunteering Week, starting from 12th to 18th January 2014.

India@75 Imagine Workshop – Drawing Synergies

First Joint Meeting of

Apex Council and

National Committee

On 18th November at Delhi, India@75 organized the

first joint meeting of Apex Council and National

Committee. Mr Adi Godrej, Chairman, India@75

Foundation graced the meeting with his presence. The

agenda for the joint meeting was to brief the members

of the Apex Council – the thought leadership for

India@75 to interact with members of National

Committee – the design and implementation team.

The National Committee members shared the work

that has been done so far and the plan ahead for

India@75. Activities related to Skills, Communication

and Volunteerism were discussed at the meeting and

the Apex Council Members provided their inputs in

each one of them. Mr S. Gopalakrishnan, President, CII

and Chairman, Apex Council on India@75 and Mr

Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII and Trustee,

India@75 were also present at the meeting.

Interaction with Adi Godrej at CII-India@75 - YI Session on‘We Build India’India@75 – YI - CII Conclave was organized at Kochi, on August 24, 2013, with the theme of “We Build India on Good Governance”.

Mr Adi Godrej, Immediate Past President CII and Chairman India@75 Foundation, addressed the audience at the exclusive

plenary session focusing on “Moral Leadership and Governance”, other eminent speakers included Dr Subramaniam Swamy and

Mr T K A Nair amongst others.

Speaking at the occasion Mr Adi Godrej, Chairman India@75 foundation said that Indian economy will soon be at eight percent.

Further, on environmental issues he said that these are very important issues to India but should not be emphasized at the cost of

development, we should bring in science and technology to address environmental issues.

India@75 Leadership at Young Presidents' Organisation (YPO)'s program the India Presidents' University 2013The event hosted on 18th November, 2013 in New Delhi had a panel discussion on ‘Future Perfect – India in 2022’. The panel consisted

of Mr Adi Godrej, Immediate Past President, CII, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Mr S Gopalakrishnan, President, CII, Chairman, Apex

Council, Mr Zubin Irani, YPO, Delhi and moderated by Mr Rajan Navani, Chairman, National Committee, India@75.

Mr Godrej in his speech shared the vision of India@75 and emphasized on leadership which is about the future and about change. He

shared with audience the theory of Late Prof CK Prahalad who had believed in 3 core principles to be adopted by true leader, that is

Aspirations exceeding Resources, thus unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit, secondly Folding the future in – to have clarity of direction

with clear milestones and lastly to focus on Next Practices to move beyond the clichéd best practices.

Any practice that meets the six parameters of global scalability, environmental sustainability, affordability by all, inclusivity in terms of

social equity focus, meets the rights of an individual and lastly is market based to be fair and transparent can be categorized as Next

Practice.

The Next Practice Sandbox is part of India@75’s Peoples’ Agenda and it can be viewed on the website – www.indiaat75.in.

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Discussions about India@75

Aspen Institute and CIICelebrated 72nd Birth Anniversary of Late Prof. CK PrahaladOn 3rd August 2013 in Chennai, 72nd Birth Anniversary of Late Prof CK

Prahalad was celebrated. At the event, Mr S. Ramadorai, Member, Apex

Council, India@75 and Mr MV Subbiah, Former Executive Chairman,

Murugappa Group addressed the event.

Mr Subbiah shared that by giving a vision for India@75, late Prof CK

Prahalad’s has not only had envisioned an India of 2022, he had also

drawn a roadmap and a strategy to achieve the stretched targets, as he

believed that constraints of resources can be overcome by innovative

approach and adopting next practices.