IRSC – Indian Road Safety Campaign
Indian Roads Safety Campaign(IRSC), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways(MoRTH), DTP and TRIPP, IIT Delhi organised a Conference on Safer Mobility: A Road to Safer Mobility on 16th December, 2017 in IIT Delhi. The vision of the conference was to promote collaboration among multiple stakeholders working across the domain, to promote road-safety across India.
The Chief Guest for the event, V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi addressed the audience and emphasized on the research projects and Smart Campus Initiatives taken up by Indian Road Safety Campaign and IIT Delhi. Mr. Nitin Gadkari, hon’ble minister of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways(MoRTH) through a video message emphasized on the changes made by the government in the direction of road safety. He focussed on following traffic rules and appreciated the IRSC team for its initiatives.
The keynote speaker, Mr Abhay Damle, the Joint Secretary of MoRTH launched the IRSC booklet containing laws and traffic regulations in a simplified form. Throwing light on government’s approach towards Vision Zero, he spoke on how science and technology are the primary solutions for road safety and talked about going from safe-fail towards a fail-safe systems. He mentioned the 3 second rule and the need to relook, 120 km/hour + speeds. He also focused on prevention and the problems to be tackled regarding helmet design, airbags and seatbelts.
Inclusion of Sikh History in NCERT books!
An influential meeting held with Education Minister Prakash Javadekar for the Inclusion of Sikh History in NCERT books!
Statutory body Established under the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Act, 1971, The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, took a serious step regarding the Sikh history by keeping an influential meeting with the incumbent Union Minister of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India Prakash Javadekar for the inclusion of Sikh History in NCERT books, so that the young Indian generation could know about their heritage. Present at the meeting was Preeti Sapru, Sanjay Sapru, Shri Manjit Singh along with eminent personalities of Sikh community.
The main motto of the meeting was the Sikh History, mentioned in the discussion about the Sikh Gurus who worked tirelessly for the upliftment of the Indian Society in general and the downtrodden Indian in particular. However, regretfully the history of the Sikhs does not figure anywhere in the school syllabus. And the topic of the negligence and injustice did by the governments considering the glorious past of the Sikhs was also stated in the meet. Minister Shri Prakash Ji gave a patient and serious hearing to the committee.
Whereas, the deep topics about the Sikh history which was requested to include in one or two chapters in the NCERT books are, Guru Nanak, Guru Arjan Dev, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind Singh, Two Younger Sons of Guru Gobind Singh, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, the History of Eighteenth Century, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and Indian freedom movement and the Sikhs.
Services Conclave “Serve India and the World”
Services Conclave
“Serve India and the World”
Tuesday, 19th December, 2017: Hotel Leela Palace, New Delhi
Dear Sir/ Ma’am,
It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) with the support of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) and Services Export Promotion Council (SEPC) is organising theServices Conclave: Serve India and the World on 19th December in Delhi.
The Services Sector is emerging across the world as an enabler of economic growth and inclusion. The sector contributes almost one third of the gross value added, half of the world employment, one fifth of global trade and more than half of the world FDI flows.
In India, the contribution of the Services Sector has grown to more than half of the country’s output today, from 30 per cent of GDP in 1950, contributing 62 per cent of the gross value addition with the growth of 7.7 per cent in 2016-17. This fast emergence has thrown open huge opportunities and challenges for the sector.
Hon’ble Minister of Commerce & Industry, Shri Suresh Prabhu has agreed to deliver the Inaugural Address at the conclave on the 19th of December.
The Conclave will be attended by Policy Makers, Industry Captains, Academicians and other Stakeholders.
The main components of the programme are:
· Conference
· Knowledge Report on Road map on Building Services Competitiveness
· White Paper on India: Leapfrogging with Disruptive Tech for 1.3 billion
· Global Exhibition on Services 2018: Curtain Raiser
The Conclave will attempt to bring in the stake holders: Government and Industry on a common platform to discuss and debate on building competitiveness of the Services Sector by,
- Identifying and addressing key Competitive Differentiators in the Services Sector
- Ideating on bridging the regulatory gaps in the key sub segments of the Services Sector
- Strategizing to develop a holistic framework for an overarching Services Policy
I take the opportunity to invite you to join this important conference and also nominate senior colleagues.
For your reference, I am attaching the Conclave Programme, Flyer and Registration Form.
Look forward to receiving you at the Conclave.
Warm Regards
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Sanya Bisht
Executive| Confederation of Indian Industry
The Mantosh Sondhi Centre, 23, Institutional Area
Lodi Road, New Delhi – 110003
‘Safe Migration in a World on the Move’ for International Migrants Day
International Migrants Day
Geneva – Ambassador William Lacy Swing, Director General of IOM, the United Nations Migration Agency, is making an urgent call for “Safe Migration for a World on the Move” as International Migrants Day approaches on Monday, 18 December 2017.
The Organization will mark International Migrants Day (IMD) with a series of worldwide events including a Geneva award ceremony for the Global Migration Film Festival. The festival, in its second year, includes many public and private sector partners participating with IOM missions in over 100 countries.
In addition to film screenings in Geneva and New York, IOM will participate in a UN leadership debate featuring United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at Manhattan’s UNICEF House, touching on the global compact on migration. The compact is expected to be adopted by the end of 2018, once negotiations by UN member states are concluded.
The UN leadership debate will explore the common ground on migration, rather than the divisions, DG Swing said. Despite often sharp rhetoric, migration is less a problem to be solved than a human reality to be managed, he explained.
UNICEF House events also will include the New York opening of the critically acclaimed art installation UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage (for details see www.Together-in-NY.org).
This powerful exhibition brings to life stories of refugees who have settled in the US by exploring past traumas through three-dimensional models of their homes mounted on suitcases they carried on their journeys. In a particularly gripping installation, visitors can explore the bombed home of one refugee family through a virtual reality visualization.
IOM also will be launching a podcast series, TOGETHER: Personal Stories of Migrants and Refugees, hosted by 19-year-old Iraqi-American refugee Ahmed Badr, who, along with his family, was resettled in the US by IOM at a young age. The podcast, along with a new mobile app, shares compelling human stories of migration through thoughtful, revealing interviews with young migrants and refugees in the US.
The podcast’s first four shows will be available on iTunes and other leading platforms.
Ahmed, who was 7 years old when a bomb smashed into his family’s house in Baghdad, speaks in the series’ first two instalments with his parents and sister, Maryam, who tell his family’s extraordinary story. In subsequent episodes, Ahmed interviews other young refugees and migrants.
The podcasts are part of the UN TOGETHER initiative to encourage better understanding of migrant and refugee issues through the power of social media.
In an OpEd column penned for International Migrants Day (see Our Right of Passage Should be Safe Migration, Not Leaky Boats), DG Swing said, “While we live at a time when a privileged elite considers global mobility virtually its birth-right, it is denied to countless others trapped in hopelessly bad economic or conflict circumstances.”
DG Swing warned that denial leads to “smuggling networks, human traffickers and modern-day enslavers who ply their trade these days with complete impunity.”
DG Swing will be in New York throughout Monday’s busy schedule and will be available for media interviews.
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