Young Indians Kochi Chapter Annual Report Annual Report Kochi Chapter 2012-13 Annual Report Kochi Chapter 2012-13 considered employment ready. If India can make capacity building and skill upgradation a priority and take effective steps to plug the gaps, it can indeed become the Message from resource pool of the world. Contents Chairman, CII Kerala State Council To seize the opportunity, the key stake holders – Industry, Academia, Media and Government – need to get together. It is my view that the industry would need to take the lead in creating competencies for the new order. This The greatest strength of any nation is its young people. is where youth organisations like CII’s Young Indians are The youth has the power to influence and shape the required to take leadership roles. The power of youth is future of a country. So if the future has to be bright, the best left to the youth themselves to harness. Message from CII Chairman 03 energy, enthusiasm and idealism of youth need to be My association with Yi has been pretty limited, but I am channelized to the task of nation-building. Message from Yi Chapter Chair 04 given to understand that the CatalYist and ShYishya Message from Yi Chapter Co Chair 05 Youth power is even more significant in India. In 2020, the projects, aimed at sparking the spirit of average age of an Indian citizen will be 29 years entrepreneurshipamongst the youth of Kerala, have been Education 06 compared to 37 years in China and the US, 45 years in a success. The youth should be encouraged to start Entrepreneurship 11 West Europe and 48 years in Japan. So the population businesses and be employment generators rather than explosion in India, considered a bane by several employment seekers. This way they become less of a Environment 15 economists, does have a silver lining; while the world burden on society. is aging, India is getting younger. The demographic Learning : RevYive 19 IBS has had the good fortune of hosting Yi, both at our dividend will give India an age advantage for at least three Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram campuses, for Membership 27 decades, through till end 2040. This unprecedented discussions and deliberations with the young leaders of opportunity has first to be understood clearly and then Students Net 31 my company. The interactions, I am sure, would have seized with both arms. Next Practices 38 been mutually satisfying and beneficial. We would like to There are massive challenges, however. Finding jobs for continue this association. Sports & Healthcare 40 the youth will be an issue. Developing the right skills for Here is wishing CII Young Indians the very best. EC Members 41 the evolving job market will be an even more daunting task. India has the largest pool, over 220 million, of school Sincerely Press Coverages 43 going students, but only 26 million go to colleges.Less than 5% of India's labour force is estimated to have had VK Mathews any formal training and only around half of the 5 lakh Chairman Engineering students that graduate every year, are CII Kerala State Council 02 Yi Annual Report 2012-13 Yi Annual Report 2012-13 03 considered employment ready. If India can make capacity building and skill upgradation a priority and take effective steps to plug the gaps, it can indeed become the Message from resource pool of the world. Contents Chairman, CII Kerala State Council To seize the opportunity, the key stake holders – Industry, Academia, Media and Government – need to get together. It is my view that the industry would need to take the lead in creating competencies for the new order. This The greatest strength of any nation is its young people. is where youth organisations like CII’s Young Indians are The youth has the power to influence and shape the required to take leadership roles. The power of youth is future of a country. So if the future has to be bright, the best left to the youth themselves to harness. Message from CII Chairman 03 energy, enthusiasm and idealism of youth need to be My association with Yi has been pretty limited, but I am channelized to the task of nation-building. Message from Yi Chapter Chair 04 given to understand that the CatalYist and ShYishya Message from Yi Chapter Co Chair 05 Youth power is even more significant in India. In 2020, the projects, aimed at sparking the spirit of average age of an Indian citizen will be 29 years entrepreneurshipamongst the youth of Kerala, have been Education 06 compared to 37 years in China and the US, 45 years in a success. The youth should be encouraged to start Entrepreneurship 11 West Europe and 48 years in Japan. So the population businesses and be employment generators rather than explosion in India, considered a bane by several employment seekers. This way they become less of a Environment 15 economists, does have a silver lining; while the world burden on society. is aging, India is getting younger. The demographic Learning : RevYive 19 IBS has had the good fortune of hosting Yi, both at our dividend will give India an age advantage for at least three Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram campuses, for Membership 27 decades, through till end 2040. This unprecedented discussions and deliberations with the young leaders of opportunity has first to be understood clearly and then Students Net 31 my company. The interactions, I am sure, would have seized with both arms. Next Practices 38 been mutually satisfying and beneficial. We would like to There are massive challenges, however. Finding jobs for continue this association. Sports & Healthcare 40 the youth will be an issue. Developing the right skills for Here is wishing CII Young Indians the very best. EC Members 41 the evolving job market will be an even more daunting task. India has the largest pool, over 220 million, of school Sincerely Press Coverages 43 going students, but only 26 million go to colleges.Less than 5% of India's labour force is estimated to have had VK Mathews any formal training and only around half of the 5 lakh Chairman Engineering students that graduate every year, are CII Kerala State Council 02 Yi Annual Report 2012-13 Yi Annual Report 2012-13 03 engaged, leaving no space to support activities of Yi unlike previous years. This is a challenge the team had to face and so would be for the teams in coming years. Unless we can offer something specific, sharp and beneficial to the students we are likely to be given go-by, even by existing nets. The challenge has been addressed well by the Education and Entrepreneurship verticals this year. Another challenge is Membership Engagement and here I must say the Membership & Learning verticals have done commendable work and am sure these will stand good in the coming years. Please go through the Annual Report, whatever has been Message from featured here would not have been possible without Message from Chairman, Yi Chapter strong support from my Co-Chair, Namrata. Every Co Chair, Yi Chapter vertical team and EC have contributed to these achievements. We received excellent administrative school) Both aiming at skill development of human support from Jayesh and Anuradha. I would also like to resources. Both winning national awards. Dear Friends, express gratitude to Mr. VK Mathews, CII-Chairman, Yi today is a decade old. The conviction of our founders We never accomplish anything in Yi alone. It has been a Kerala for walking the talk and facilitating interaction that the youth of the country can have an active role in This is the 10th Year of CII-YI, the movement is growing collective effort. The spirit of Yi is 'All for one and One for opportunity at IBS in Kochi and Trivandrum. shaping the future of india made Yi happen. The tiny and evolving as it strives to make its presence felt globally all’ Thus I would like to thank each Yi member who has spark has gathered momentum and I foresee it as and locally among the youth. As the Chair of this chapter In our quest to device more meaningful programs and volunteered time and energy and added to the success of becoming a much larger fire, radiating light which the for 2012-13, my brief has been to refine the chapter’s engage members in Nation Building we will continue to each of our initiative. It has been a personal learning to youth of our country looks for and finds merit. The key impact among its primary stakeholders, YI members and stride, hand in hand. I wish Namrata and the new team work with Mr. Pramod Nair, whose grit and energy have question remains: Do we have the enduring Students. And I am delighted to say that, Team kochi has my very best wishes and am confident this movement will been the driving force. organizational structure to empower and motivate- made significant improvements as envisaged in the scale new heights in coming years. beyond our membership-a whole generation of Indians? Yi means different things for each one of us; however the ‘Pathfinder’ session. The incoming year is a very special one for all of us in common denominator would be the joy in service we find. 2012- 13 has been a landmark year for Yi Kochi. We have around ten verticals/platforms. Members led Kochi with our very own Srikanth taking over as National The joy doubles when we are doing it for our own country The year has witnessed a lot of hard work, unflinching each activity with focus, exhibiting team work, Chairman.