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YOUNG INDIANS 1 CHANGE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2009-10 FIREFLIES message from... ...the president, CII Dear Yi Colleagues, CII’s theme for the year 2009-10 laid emphasis on Yi, being an inclusive organisation that focuses on building Economy, Infrastructure & Governance. I am happy to itself as the voice of young Indians globally, has evolved note that Young Indians have taken forward CII’s theme a position of being a key player in the developmental this year by undertaking a number of programmes & imperatives for India through innovation & discussion. Yi initiatives in these areas. These include a number of has engaged its members in generating awareness on interactive sessions with distinguished luminaries on significant and relevant matters. I congratulate the Young the economic downturn, opportunities and strategies Indians for their focus, energy and enthusiasm. for revival; awareness campaigns to promulgate good governance & participative citizenship. Yi has shown its tremendous growth potential this year by increasing its spread within the country as well as through The National Youth Policy, 2003 outlines the commitment its depth of activities. The commitment on part of the Yi of the entire nation to the composite and all-round Chairman & Vice Chairman in engaging the youth in the development of the young sons and daughters of India various activities of Yi is indeed a commendable feat. I VENU and seeks to establish an all-India perspective to fulfill take this opportunity to felicitate the entire team of Young SRINIVASAN their legitimate aspirations so that they are all strong Indians led by Dr Rahul Mirchandani. I believe that in the President CII & of heart and strong of body and mind in successfully coming years Yi would grow as a strong organisation and Managing Director, accomplishing the challenging tasks of nation building move forward with a firm resolve of carrying forward its Sundaram-Clayton and social transformation that lie ahead. For India to stay goal & spirit of ‘We Can, We Will’. I look forward to an even Ltd in the mainstream of overall development, it is imperative larger engagement of Yi in leading India into the future. to ensure the effective pursuit of youth development programmes which promote personality development h and enhance commitment to community service, social justice, self reliance and national integration. Yi embodies all these elements and much more. 2 Yi annual report 2009-10 ...the national chairman, Yi To all my friends at Yi 3 Yi has had a superb year. It is with great pleasure that I Indian Parliament Simulation at Kochi was a superb present to you our Fourth Annual Report that captures experience for over 150 students who lived the role the breadth and impact of our activities across each of of an elected parliamentarian, engaged in rigorously Yi’s chapters, platforms and initiatives. researched discussion and constructive debate on 15 Indian issues, with the hope of understanding the I must begin by appreciating the energy, enthusiasm and parliamentary system and finding possible solutions to zest of every Yi office bearer, Yi member and the team of unique Indian problems. This provided extraordinary Executive members who have collectively made this year leadership training and was a successful experiment to so successful. get youth from 19 cities interested in looking at politics This was Yi’s year of scaling up. We launched nine as a career choice. In addition, the Yi Retreat at Tirupati new chapters during the year at Thiruvananthapuram, had a heady mix of some memorable trekking, adventure Guwahati, Erode, Vishakapatnam, Goa, Raipur, Srinagar, sports and spiritual experiences. Baroda and Madurai. We now have established a Our Overseas Delegation to the United Kingdom met presence in 25 cities with a total of 1200 members. with Lord Meghnand Desai at The House of Lords, Sir The choice of these new locations demonstrates our Thomas Harris at Standard Chartered Bank and had an commitment to ensure that Young Indians even in smaller interactive session with the UKIBC Next Gen Entrepreneurs. RAHUL towns are provided with access to a platform like Yi that MIRCHANDANI We also had an interesting session on Innovation and connects them with Industry and ‘Young in Business’ Entrepreneurship with students at Oxford University. Yi had National across India. its first International Road Show in London and briefed Chairman, CII’s Young Indians & In addition, we have a strong and fast growing young overseas Indians on engaging with India as a crucial Executive Director, membership base of 4000 students drawn from 59 Yi stakeholder. Following this, we hosted a group of exchange Aries Agro Limited Student Networks across India, 160 members across students from Oxford, Cambridge and London School of 3 corporate chapters and 8500 young farmers Economics in Mumbai and interacted with the UK Deputy enrolled through 2 Yi Farmers Nets. High Commissioner, Ms Vicki Treadell on the Challenges of Doing Business in India. We have rolled out a total of 602 events and activities during the year. This works out to an average of close Yi also continuously engaged with key persons in to 2 events a day. All of these activities were aligned to Government including Mr Rahul Gandhi, Mr Arun Yi’s platforms and initiatives of education, environment, Maira, Mr Nandan Nilekani, Mr Shashi Tharoor, Ms employability, governance, art-culture-sport, healthcare, Supriya Sule, Ms Meenakshi Natarajan among many youth affairs, farmer nets and next practices. Yi’s work others. The objective was to keep these key influencers during the year has directly impacted over 6 lakhs appraised about Yi, our vision and our goals and seek people. This is the first year that we have started tracking opportunities to work together with Government to the member engagement and impact numbers for each initiate and scale up activities and projects. We also had of our activities, with the objective of setting specific the opportunity to carry out extensive voting awareness benchmarks for us to evaluate the quantitative reach and campaigns before the National & State elections in 5 qualitative success of our efforts. cities, with the highlight being our interaction with the Chief Election Commissioner of India, Mr Navin Chawla, Nationally, Yi had a good mix of flagship events. The in Mumbai, before the Maharashtra Assembly Elections. Our Green-I - Yi Environment contest once again Yi Farmer Nets currently involve over 8500 young, highlighted ways to make school campuses more progressive farmers in knowledge sharing platforms. The environmentally sensitive. Over a 100 schools developed year’s theme for both the networks supported by Aries Agro working models for building more sustainable buildings. Limited and Galla Foods was building a dialogue towards In the education area, Yi has carried out an extensive evolving a framework for Indian Good Agricultural practices efficacy study for Yi Akshara – our learning resource (Indo-GAP). Over 175 knowledge dissemination activities centre for school children. The Yi Education team has were undertaken across 11 states impacting over 11000 also initiated the process of customizing and localizing farmers and rural children from agricultural communities. Akshara modules. We also have preparatory programs These events exposed farmers to best practices using study underway that make children in urban slums ready for tours and workshops, connected them with Agricultural entry to a formal schooling system. World Food Day was Universities and also educated Rural school students in over observed across the country with 14 Yi chapters working 65 secondary schools on latest agricultural practices that together for the first time on a single standardized Yi will help improve productivity and consequently improve the Healthcare project on a single day. The Healthcare ecosystem of wealth creation in rural communities. Yi also initiative also saw sessions and workshops on stress surveyed over 800 farmers net members and prepared a management, lifestyle diseases, HIV, diabetes, heart comprehensive document that captured ways that Young diseases, swine flu, yoga and alternative medicine. farmers are affected by and coping with Climate Change. This report was prepared for the Copenhagen Summit. Employability is one of India’s key concerns. Yi has We also conducted two very successful National Agromax scaled up its work in the Skills development area conferences in Guwahati, Assam and in Hissar, Haryana. by conducting Yi Labs programs focused on the Together these two flagship events had close to 4000 hospitality, food and retail sectors. In addition we have young farmers in attendance and had a galaxy of over 40 also commenced work on piloting world class skills speakers and involved 5 State Governments, 9 Agricultural certification programs in the Logistics and Agriculture Universities and many agribusiness corporates. Farmers sectors. These programs will improve the employability were also provided with commodity prices, crop advisories prospects of youth involved in these sectors and also and weather alerts throughout the year using mobile phone plug some crucial skills gaps that exist in these areas. text messages. Yi has also begun an iterative process I have had the pleasure of personally visiting 17 of of identifying 10 farmers each year who have achieved Yi’s chapters during the year. The Coimbatore Vizha, superlative levels of productivity and documenting and Entrepreneurship conclaves, Yi Kochi’s EnYironmend