COIMBATORE CHAPTER Annual Report 2015-2016 Head Ofce Zonal ofce Confederation of Indian Industry Confederation of Indian Industry 249-F, Udyag Vihar, Phase IV Unit : B-3A-1, Second Floor, Elysium Gurgaon - 122 015 Central, Puliakulam Main Road Haryana, India Coimbatore - 641045 Tamil Nadu, India Tel : +91 124 4014060-67 Tel : +91 422 4044555 Fax : +91 124 4014080 Fax : +91 422 4044555 Email : [email protected] Email : [email protected] An Initative of Confederation of Indian Industry INDEX Message from CII Chairman 02 Message from Yi Chair 04 About Young Indians (Yi) 06 YOUTH LEADERSHIP 07 - 20 Learning Entrepreneurship & Skill Building YUVA Membership & Engagement NATION BUILDING 21 - 35 Health Environment Project Masoom Swachh Bharat Relief Support Coimbatore Vizha INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 37 - 41 G20 CAAYE Global Excellence Mission to Vietnam NATIONAL & REGIONAL SUMMITS 43 - 47 The 11th Young Indians National Summit The Yi Forum: 'We the Youth of India' #GrowthHack – National Entrepreneurship Summit Conluence Odisha – Learn, Lead & Explore EC TEAM 48 - 49 Yi COIMBATORE IN THE PRESS 50 - 51 MESSAGE FROM CII CHAIRMAN The chapter has also hosted the Yi Global Excellence Mission to Vietnam for the members to learn from companies of Global repute. The chapter has also invested a lot of time and energy into nurturing Start- ups in this region by organizing initiatives to get them mentoring and funding opportunities. Their sustainable and societal projects like Gift An Organ (A joint initiative with CII Coimbatore), Project Vision Carbon Neutral, Project Masoom are making huge impact in the society. The 8th edition of Coimbatore Vizha has been the talk of the town with meaningful, unique events and excellent response from Coimbatoreans. In terms of the magnitude in participation and reach, Coimbatore Vizha still remains the single largest initiative of the city. It is really admirable to see how the chapter is raising the bars every year consecutively for the past decade. The outcome is a result of the reckless determination and energy of the Chapter leadership and I take this Dear Friends, opportunity to congratulate Swathy Rohit, Chair, Yi Every third person in an Indian city today is a youth. By 2020, India is set to become the world's youngest country with 64 Coimbatore Chapter and P B Balaji, Co-Chair, Yi per cent of its population in the working age group! In just about a couple of years, the median individual in India will be Coimbatore Chapter for their able leadership and less than 30 years, and India is set to experience a dynamic transformation with Youth leading the nation from all fronts. bring out yet another amazing year for the chapter The Indian youth is full of Ideas; they have the finger on the pulse, so they are best suited for the nation and the economy and making CII Coimbatore proud of it. I also to grow. acknowledge and congratulate the support of the Executive Council Members of Yi Coimbatore Chapter. When young people come together, they counter each other, they face challenges, they bring strong opinions to the table My best wishes also to the members of Yi and I wish and they are invincible. With the vision of “Being the Voice of Young Indians Globally”, Yi has been in the fore front of the incoming team the very best. giving the youth a proper environment, motivation and extending all possible support to them to channelize their infinite source of energy! The initiatives undertaken by Young Indians in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Skill Building, Rural Development, etc, give an unprecedented opportunity for the Youth of the Nation to grow further. With over 180 members in the chapter, the Largest and the most vibrant chapter - Yi Coimbatore has been bringing out new youth & nation building initiatives and setting benchmarks year on year! In the current year, the chapter has organized numerous learning sessions with Regional / National / International K V Srinivasan speakers and focussed Entrepreneurship workshops on various topics of relevance to young entrepreneurs. The events Chairman, CII Coimbatore Zone like Learning 360: Evolve, Learning Missions to various Industries in Coimbatore, Tiruppur & Mysore are commendable. 2015-2016 Dear Friends, MESSAGE FROM Yi CHAPTER CHAIR I was deeply honoured to be given the opportunity to lead the largest and the most vibrant Yi Chapters. This year has been in-fact the country. I take this opportunity to thank a great learning experience for me. I sincerely thank each one of you for your faith in me and the overwhelming support the Healthcare panel of CII Coimbatore lead by Dr you have extended to take the chapter to the next level. It is only thorough your enthusiasm and participation we were Raja Sabapathi, Convenor, Dr Madhavi Gopinath, able to accomplish what we did! Co-Convenor and Dr Ramani, Project Chairman for their support and guidance. I 'take pride' to say that this was an action packed year. I look back at some of the highlights with euphoria, nostalgia and great pride. Our prestigious project Vision Carbon Neutral has had an excellent progress with all stakeholders like participating institutions and scientific team from 73 meaningful events were organized in congruence with our motto of “We Can! We Will!” FC&RI providing their fullest support. The chapter had the opportunity to meet and host about 52 eminent speakers (Yi & YUVA) including 3 It gives me immense satisfaction that we have international speakers, over the course of this year. Some of them are Mr Navi Radjou, Innovation and Leadership sensitized more than 15000 school kids on Child Advisor, Mr Jaideep Prabhu, University of Cambridge, Mr M V Subbiah, Former Chairman, Murugappa Groups, Mr Safety through Project Masoom. The chapter also Farhad Forbes, Director, Forbes Marshall Limited, Ms Rati Forbes, Director, Forbes Marshall Limited, Dr S sensitized the opinion makers, parents, people Chakravarthy, IAS (R), Former Member, MRTP Commission, Govt of India, Mr Ravi Kanth Mantha, Author, Economist, involved in recovery of affected kids, media, etc by Public Policy Advocate. organizing a talk show. The chapter also had the honour of hosting the first outreach Session on “Start-up India” for the first time Coimbatore Vizha has always been a benchmark after the Launch event in New Delhi. Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon'ble Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, project of Yi Coimbatore Chapter and every year Govt. of India and Mr Shailendra Singh, Joint Secretary and CVO, Depart of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of with unique concepts, Vizha was reaching several Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India were the Chief Guest and Guest Speaker for the session which saw massive thousands of people and was growing steadily every participation of over 2500 participants! year for the past seven years. With over 70+ events, The Startup Summit: Our maiden attempt at providing mentoring and funding opportunities for Start-ups was 75+ participating organizations, the eighth edition a great success with over 200 applications from mainstream start-ups and students. We have organized boot camps, of Coimbatore Vizha has definitely raised the bars mentoring programmes, etc and after the final pitch fest, two start-ups were selected for Funding Consideration. and set new standards! The chapter has organized learning missions to 7 companies in Coimbatore, Tirupur and Mysore and overall This year, I hope that Yi Coimbatore gave you, the more than 100 members from Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode and Mysore participated in these missions. The Chapter also members, a chance to explore your passions through has got the opportunity to host the Global Excellence Mission to Vietnam where the members visited 7 companies of interactions with our esteemed speakers and global repute like Coca-Cola, Bosch, Toyota, Vinamilk, Spark Minda, Hoa Sen and Hantex. mentors, provided you with several opportunities to We have added 40 new members in the current year and with a current member base of 181 members, Yi enrich yourselves with valuable learning through Coimbatore Chapter remains the largest chapter in the country. various workshops and diverse events and left you All this serious business on one side, the battle for supremacy through Cricket – YiPL witnessed its fourth determined to challenge yourself to be able to excel edition with more than 120 members involved themselves in meticulous planning and execution of the event. Thanks in all your future endeavours. to YiPL, we have seen 100+ members at one place and it remains a fact that there is no other event that has brought I will remember the past year for the affection and more Yi Members together! respect I got from all of you. I would specially like to A unique community was launched within Yi Coimbatore - the Yi Special interest Groups – A Nature Group to start thank my Co-Chair Balaji, our amazing EM Saran and with in which members enthusiastically participated, precipitated and grew. Various nature related activities like Bird his team for all the support, for all the help, all my Watching, Nature Trek, etc were organized through discussions within the group. We should look forward to see more partners, sponsors and my committee. such Special Interest Groups in the chapter in the coming year. Two major natural calamities affected several million people in Nepal and Chennai this year. The chapter through its Thank you and wishing all the very best, today and always! members, contributed in providing relief materials to the people in trouble. I take this opportunity to thank each one of them, who have contributed, for their support in this hour of need. We have also organized various socially relevant projects like Gift An Organ, Project Vision Carbon Neutral, Project Masoom, Swachh Bharat drive which are aimed at improving the lives and creating awareness at various levels.