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Balasaheb Kadam

Location: Sunnyvale, California

Area of contribution: Education

Region: National Initiative

 

Balasaheb Kadam is working with Shiksha. He is involved in a technological innovation that will enable teaching via television instead of the internet. In his involvement with Shiksha, Mr. Kadam is working directly with the project manager to assess the best way to use this technology to deploy Shiksha’s teaching methodologies all over India.  

 

Enas Enas (Dr.)

Location: Lisle, Illinois

Area of contribution: Health, Cardiology

Region: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

 

Dr. Enas is a leading cardiologist who specializes in South Asian health issues. During his visit to Hyderabad, he delivered a short seminar on “How to beat heart disease among Indians” where he addressed lifestyle and genetic issues along with ways to prevent cardiovascular diseases. The session was interactive, attended by over eighty individuals and aimed at increasing awareness of common diseases in India.   

 

Juhi Kilachand

Location: New York City, New York

Area of contribution: Entrepreneurship Development

Region: Bangalore, Karnataka

Initiative: Byrajju Foundation

 

Ms. Kilachand is an entrepreneur who imports textiles and handicrafts from India to the US. She was introduced to Byrajju Foundation and is working with a Bangalore based artisan group to assist in their distribution, marketing and product design.  

 

Vibhuti Jha

Location: Port Washington, NY

Area of contribution: Education

Region: New Delhi

Initiative: Vibhuti Jha addressed over 100 MBA students at IILM Institute for Higher Education, New Delhi on April 9, 2009. This was Mr Jha's first engagement with CII IAC initiative. The talk and presentation had a focus on Learning, Leadership and Career choice for students who are entering the new business environment, post the financial meltdown facing the world economies.


Mr Jha also implored upon the students that as they prepare to enter the job market, they must look for a career and life and not only a job with some company. His message was clear that to do so each one of them ought to focus on their inherent talent, develop the skill sets to enhance the talent and drive their lives from the values that matters the most.


On the issue of Leadership, India faces a major crisis as the subject is widely misunderstood. Leadership is often characterized by its subjective traits rather than an substantive element. In today's world the leader has to be an architect of the future of the domain he deals with, be it the nation, company or an NGO and has to be a maker and keeper of the mood of that entity. As an example he talked about the lack of demonstrated leadership in the political arena of the country where every politician was aspiring to be the PM without the knowledge that becoming a PM is not an end of the aspirations of becoming the leader in true sense of the term. 

The Q&A was as exciting as it could be with the whole group agreeing that the dream of India becoming a super power in 2025 or 2050, as envisaged by several leading International groups, could be affected by the Taliban style extremism threatening the Indian economic resurgence of the 21st century via weakness of the political authority in this regard.   

 

Kavita Soni

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Area of contribution: Entrepreneurship Development

Region: New Delhi

 

Kavita is involved with the Bhartiya Yuva Shakti Trust which has chapters all over India. During her recent trip, she met with the mentor group of the South Delhi chapter to learn more about how they are empowering disadvantaged entrepreneurs in that region. Kavita shared her ideas with the mentor group and will continue to work with them when she is back in the United States.  

 

Lavanya Nutankalva (Dr.)

Location: Washington D.C, Hyderabad

Area of contribution: Health, HIV

Region: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

 

Lavanya is a disease control specialist focusing on HIV prevention and an associate professor at Howard University. She worked with Apollo Hospitals to speak at a two full day Blood Safety camp where she addressed issues in diagnosis, clinical treatment and prevention methodologies. Lavanya has since been employed by Apollo Hospitals and will be working with CII’s India Business Trust on HIV awareness programs.   

 

Manjit Saini

Location: San Francisco, California

Area of contribution: Water sanitation and rural development

Region: Dungarpur, Rajasthan and Punjab

 

Manjit is a hydraulics engineer who has linked to two separate initiatives. He has worked with CII’s rural development project in Dungarpur to advise on water conservation methodologies. He is currently working on a proposal to assist a local government in the state of Punjab with water sanitation.  

 
 

Newsflash

Press Release, Jan 9,2009: Pravasi Bhartiya Divas

NEW IDEAS FOR DIASPORA INVOLVEMENT IN INDIA’S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 

Continuing on its objective to deepen engagement with the Indian diaspora, three concurrent sessions at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2009 addressed opportunities presented for participating in social development in India. The PBD convention is being held in Chennai from 7-9 January by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in partnership with the Government of Tamilnadu and the Confederation of Indian Industry. Health and education have emerged as the key social sector areas for increasing diaspora engagement in India.