2015-16, I Have Had the Privilege of Working and Closely Witnessing the Activities of the Yi Goa Chapter Members with a Great Deal of Keenness & Admiration
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Chairman CII Goa State Council Dear Young Indians, I am proud to witness the transition in Young Indians – Goa Chapter over the years and the tremendous potential it has gained, wherein this vibrant chapter is poised to be one of the leading Chapters in the country. As the Chairman of the CII Goa Council I have experienced a strong sense of enthusiasm and camaraderie amongst the Yi Goa Chapter Members and the passion they possess towards the successful completion of activities entrusted. I take this opportunity to extend my deepest appreciation to Mr Nitin Desai and the entire team of office bearers, not forgetting all the Past Chapter Chairs for passionately fulfilling their roles and responsibilities towards Nation building... I understand Yi under his able leadership has initiated several unique initiatives during the year and sincerely hope the same continues…. In my tenure as the Chairman of CII Goa State Council for the year 2015-16, I have had the privilege of working and closely witnessing the activities of the Yi Goa Chapter members with a great deal of keenness & admiration. It was yet another year of perfect synergy between CII and Yi working closely together to bring out activities and unique initiatives. I believe that Yi could play a major role to form a more vibrant platform to generate greater involvement amongst the Goan youth and thus spearhead various initiatives at the grassroots levels, in close collaboration with the Government, Industry & the Society at large. In my opinion, Yi should also assist the stakeholders in promoting activities for an inclusive, sustainable and developed state in the future. I take this opportunity to extend my sincere wishes to Mr Omkar Kamat Sambary the in- coming Chair, and all the members of Yi - Goa Chapter for a fruitful and successful year ahead and also wish to congratulate the out-going Chair, Mr Nitin Desai and his team on successfully achieving an action packed year. I am sure that Yi Goa Chapter in the coming years will continue to keep up the good work and scale up to greater heights thus further making a significant contribution to realizing the dream of our incredible nation. Yes, “We Can We Will!” With best wishes. Mr Parag Joshi Chairman, CII Goa State Council 2015-16 & Managing Partner, Jutex. Message by Chair, Yi Goa Chapter It is with utmost contentment that I write this message today as I hand over the baton of leadership of Young Indians Goa. I also profusely thank the Past Chairs of this organization for setting up a strong foundation due to which we could build a robust structure. Young Indians has finally established itself as the only organization of its type for the youth of goa. If Young Indians is the voice of Indian youth globally, the Goa Chapter represents the voice of goan youth nationally. This year was a great journey of learning and fun. As a Chapter Chair, my first priority was to strengthen Yi Goa internally. It was imperative that we have a great chemistry amongst the members of this chapter and that was the main priority. We ensured that we met every month over chapter meetings coupled with Learning Sessions comprising of a galaxy of great speakers and motivators. This helped build the camaraderie amongst the members and the results are there for everyone to see. Amongst the outstanding speakers to grace our meetings were young politicians, established entrepreneurs and some change making bureaucrats. Needless to say the meetings had record participation from the members. We had some of the best of projects which helped play our part in the Nation Building process. I would specially like to name project Masoom, our flagship project. The Chair of this program Ms Tanvi Sawant along with her dedicated team set a new benchmark in scaling up Yi Goa activities. Project Masoom is a National Initiative to sensitize children and their parents about child sexual abuse. The project runs in association with an NGO Childline at a national level. Our project Masoom team could sensitize 10,143 children in schools, mostly in rural areas. Each session comprised of a trained Childline volunteer to explain to the kids about “Good touch, Bad touch” and also show a 5 minutes cartoon clip to sensitize them. Shockingly we came across a few cases of sexual abuse which are being dealt with in the proper framework of law. The wonderful job by team Masoom is commendable indeed. I would like to mention the credible ground work put in by our partners, Rotary Club of Ponda New Generation and Rotary Club of Panaji Riviera to get permissions from the schools. This project is also the proof of how collaboration with other organizations can help scale up the agenda of Yi. I request the new leadership team to continue to partner with like minded individuals and organizations so that together we all can achieve more. Our major PR event “The Goa Tower Run” begs mention here. We got a record participation of 430 runners for this mega event. For the first time we partnered with CCP, GTDC and EDC to make this event the grandest ever. The long term plan is to make Tower Run a peoples event. We want the people to own it so that it becomes synonymous with the idea of Panaji city. We also raised unprecedented amount to fund the activities of Young Indians in the days to come. PTO Nation Building requires volunteers. Yi Goa took the first step in getting enthusiastic foot soldiers to carry forward the agenda of Young Indians. This was done through starting our Student Chaupals in the colleges. I am very proud to say that we have started student nets in DMC college Assagao and Narayan Zantye College, Bicholim. We intend to start 3 more Student Chaupals this year so that we have at least 500 dedicated youth who will circulate the message of Nation Building amongst the vibrant student community. Preliminary discussions and ground work for this has already been prepared by the outgoing team. Given the anti-national events for the last couple of months in some colleges and universities, I think it’s necessary to inculcate strong nationalism amongst the youth in educational institutes. I therefore believe that we need to speed up our program to start a Yuva Chaupal in each and every education institute in the state. As a part of Swaach Bharat Initiatives of Yi National we tied up with CCP to create an awareness drive on garbage collection and segregation. During the Carnival Week festivities, Yi put up a stall at Samba Square. This stall featured games and quizzes on garbage segregation and got enthusiastic response from all the citizens. We have impacted around 2000 people through this event. We also conducted numerous other small programs in various colleges on Career Counseling and Entrepreneurship. Mention must be made here about our MOU with CIBA (Center for Innovation and Business Acceleration) to promote Entrepreneurship and Skill Development amongst the youth of the state. Our upcoming events include a startup contest called “Kaun Banega Udyogpathi” in association with CIBA. Overall it was a hectic and happening year at Yi Goa. Being at the helm of the affairs, it has driven me to give my best to this organization. I hope I have made justice to the position as Chapter Chair. We have certainly come a long way. But we still need to march ahead as the road beckons and a lot needs to be done. I am sure that we are at the threshold of an exciting journey ahead. Let’s fasten our seat belts and enjoy the ride. Narainrao (Nitin) Desai, Chair, Yi Goa Chapter Message by Yi Goa Co-Chair 2015-16 Dear All, At the outset, I would like to congratulate the entire Yi Goa team on completion of yet another successful year. Being one of the founder members of Yi Goa and having lead various verticals in the Executive Council, I have witnessed the organization grow and align itself on a course to achieve its primary objective - creating a platform for Young Indians to realize the dream of a developed nation. From inception up till now, it has been an exciting journey full of learning and fostering new friendships. Over the years, Yi Goa has evolved to become the most sought after youth organization in the state. We have a young progressive membership base comprising of entrepreneurs, professionals and achievers from different walks of life. This year we have seen Yi Goa undertake great initiatives like signing MOU with CIBA to have programs under Entrepreneurship and Skill Development, connecting with other social organizations to reach out to maximum children and educate them about menace of Child Sexual Abuse under Project Masoom, launching of Yuva Chaupals in various educational institutes giving us a connect with smart young students, having many guest speakers grace our meetings to inspire with us their success story and having top state bureaucrats give us an insight on various trending government policies. Under the leadership of Narainrao (Nitin) S Desai we have witnessed a strong growth in quality membership, which in turn helped us deliver quality projects. This year we have completed the process initiated by our Past Chapter Chairs, of laying the perfect foundation for Yi Goa to scale new heights of success in the coming years. I wish to take this opportunity to thank the CII Goa Secretariat for their support in all our initiatives. I wish our outgoing Chapter Chair, Narainrao (Nitin) S Desai, great success in all his future endeavors and thank him on behalf of the Yi Goa members for an exciting year under his leadership.