Speeches

“Affirmative Action and Diversity Measures in the Private Sector”, moderated by Nagaraja Prakasam

Conference Objective:

to address caste based discrimination in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The conference is solution focused and forward looking, with four key aims:

1. To understand on-going strategic initiatives, efforts and best practices emerging from Bangladesh, India and Nepal to address caste based discrimination, with a specific focus on Dalit women.
2. To assess the current initiatives on addressing the intersections of gender and caste in terms of meeting the needs and rights of Dalit women.
3. To examine best practices with respect to inclusion matters and the private sector.
4. To understand the emerging public policy climate on caste based discrimination, with specific focus on intersecting caste and gender discrimination.

The conference sessions will highlight equity and inclusion strategies and achievements in a number of key areas covering policies and legal frameworks, affirmative action and diversity measures, addressing multiple discrimination against Dalit women, equal economic opportunities and employment, promoting inclusion via education, media and ICT, and localising the SDGs agenda to leave no one behind. Sessions will be in the form of dialogues between expert panellists facilitated by experienced moderators, leading to the formulation of a working regional agenda for social inclusion.

NSRCEL’s Women Startup Programme 2018 team had organised a Faculty Development Program (FDP) at Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad for its partners IIM Visakhapatnam, IIM Indore, IIM Nagpur, IIM Udaipur, IIE – Guwahati, IIM Sirmaur, on 17th and 18th March 2018. This program catered to imparting the knowledge about the best practicies of bootcamp and incubation along with insights to mentoring and programme practices followed by the best incubators in the country. This programme, supported by Department of Science and Technology and Goldman Sachs has completed its first stage where more than 1000 submitted ideas are evaluated and shorlisted to around 300 ideas for a bootcamp across these partner locations, starting from 2nd April 2018.