“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:
- 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.
- To assess the current initiatives on addressing the intersections of gender and caste in terms of meeting the needs and rights of Dalit women.
- To examine best practices with respect to inclusion matters and the private sector.
- 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 IIMB. Heart warming interacting/listening to 62 amazing women entrepreneurs at Vizag. From PhD to diplomas, 21 to 55 years, swanky USA accent to pitching in Telugu, humble background to HNI families, home makers to scientists, millet food to machine learning, from all over 2 states. Few of them selected to be part of 100 WE from rest of India. More to women power! Nobody can set expiry dates of women dream. Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam #WomenStartupProgramme2018
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,speaking at the panel discussion about the importance and need of attracting local investors to drive the startup ecosystem.
At Kisanmitr (https://kisanmitr.gov.in/) reverse pitch NSRCEL IIMB alum/incubatee L Elijah Raiveio from Manipur asked for a drone to lift his wild apples from hard to reach places. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati came forward then, and happy to see the students and Prof. Chivukula V. Sastri explaining the reaper drone that could help him.
Amazing energy at North East Research Conclave at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati !
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Dr Sapna Poti Mohanish Borana Guwahati Biotech Park
